Music by Elton John
Lyrics by Bernie Taupin
Available on the album
Ab/Eb /Eb /F /G /Ab /G /F
/Eb Db /Eb /F /Gb
/F /Db
Ab/Eb
Db/Eb Ab/Eb Db
When I think of those East End lights, muggy nights
Ab/C
Gb/Bb
Db/Ab
The curtains drawn in the little room downstairs
Gb
Ab
Prima Donna lord you really should have been there
Gb
Ab
Db
Sitting like a princess perched in her electric chair
Dbm
Bb7
And it's one more beer and I don't hear you anymore
Db
We've all gone crazy lately
Bb/D
Ab/Eb Eb
My friends out there rolling round the basement floor
Db
Ab/C Bbm
Ab/C
And someone saved my life tonight sugar bear
Db
Ab/C
Bbm
You almost had your hooks in me didn't you dear
Ab/C
Dbmaj7
Ab/C
You nearly had me roped and tied
Db
Bb/D
Altar-bound, hypnotized
Ab/Eb
Sweet freedom whispered in my ear
Bb7/F
You're a butterfly
Db
And butterflies are free to fly
Bb/D Ab/Eb
C7 Db Ab/C Bbm
/Ab
Fly away, high away, bye bye
Gb /Db Ab/Eb
/Eb /F /G /Ab /G /F /Eb Db /Eb /F /Gb
/F /Db
I never realized the passing hours of evening showers
A slip noose hanging in my darkest dreams
I'm strangled by your haunted social scene
Just a pawn out-played by a dominating queen
It's four o'clock in the morning
Damn it listen to me good
I'm sleeping with myself tonight
Saved in time, thank God my music's still alive
Bbm
Ab/C
And I would have walked head on into the deep end of the river
Fm7
Clinging to your stocks and bonds
Db/Ab
Paying your H.P. demands forever
Bbm
Ab/C
They're coming in the morning with a truck to take me home
Fm7
Db/Ab
Someone saved my life tonight, someone saved my life tonight
Fm7
Db/Ab
Someone saved my life tonight, someone saved my life tonight
Fm7
Someone saved my life tonight
Db/Ab
Bb7
So save your strength and run the field you play alone
Ab/Eb
Db
Someone saved, someone saved, someone saved my life tonight
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