(G. Liszt, inspired by the traditional ballad Little Sadie) I’m just a number in here But in the world I’m famous You know my legend Know what my name is k**ed my girl Cold blood in the first degree And living and breathing Is naught but a curse to me Skin of alabaster and a pristine smile Sapphire eyes with a childlike guile Oh my siren her Fire and fineness Made me molten Sated it made me mindless My pa**ion dutiful — Stark in darkening savage and beautiful! — I trusted this girl This lusterless pearl Now there’s nothing I’ll ever trust in this world Her pa**ion Smothered to ash and then faded to an ember But I loved her still May to November It’s twisted what her kiss did its silent chilliness So vile and bilious That I could not be calm, but I did try to be, tried But I could not stand back idly Her pretty pale lips, kissed and lied to me Freed that demon of mine with a whisper goodbye to me Something broke open unbridled inside of me I flooded with an ire so fiery The thought of her willowy way Powered a vengeance I swore that I will repay I got into bed but I could not take any rest Each beat of the heart like a stake in the breast Each breath shallow Taken with an aching chest I lay shattered awake and depressed No longer mild in demeanor, steadily Deadly my thoughts, wilder and meaner Anger’s ember lit up a roaring flame I stumbled up out into the pouring rain The gloom and the grayness Ruined and heinous I wandered the town for hours aimless For nights on end I made miles in circles A shell of a man heartless Living in the darkness Every drop dried out of my mouth Up out of my gullet I loaded that gun up Bullet by bullet by bullet I wandered around town drinking like always Shadowed in alleys, doorways, hallways A shadow black wallower She walked home all alone and I followed her
I crept up out of the gloom She turned to me right there Straight out of a nightmare Color bleakened black The world got soundless Nobody else anywhere around us Her beauty blinded me in blood lust I did not see the gleam of the blade And the blood gush But I felt it wild and blissful I looked her in the eye and fired that pistol I dumped her in a dumpster Shot and rotten and dead Strode home and I got in the bed, blood Boiling up in the body, hot in the head I finally faded to blackness Forty-four pistol just a little under the mattress Woke up and made a run for Knowing I was done for With the police banging on the front door I made it away by some kind of miracle Late in the day got to the hills of Jericho Made a good run But I knew when they found me Every man in the bar was closing in around me They threw me through a dry wall And with the red of the blood in my eyeball I said You’re making a mess my name is Lee I murdered her in the first degree They took me to the train dressed up in black And I died every mile for rest of the track Judge got righteous Talking about justice But I’d rather be dead than that Lifeless, lustless It’s a capital crime don’t do me any favors She shouldn’t have messed around Just read me the papers I’m in a rotbox now Hauling a ball and chain I live and I breath But I do it all in vain Nothing to do here But think about my vices So I sleep and dream her Beautiful but lifeless I’d rather be dead So that I really might rest Instead of dreaming about that Bloodstained lily white breast Go get a razor to shave me Don’t even bother to save me I’m thinking about you Sadie Coming to see you in Hades I’m a criminal past a shadow of a doubtlet Ready to die plug me into that outlet