Key West Intermezzo

Key West Intermezzo

In a hand painted night,
me and Gypsy Scotty are partners
At the Hotel Flamingo,
wearing black market shoes
This loud Cuban band
is crucifying John Lennon

No one wants to be lonely,
no one wants to sing the blues
She's perched like a parrot
on his tuxedo shoulder

Christ, what's she doing with him,
she could be
Dancing with me

She stirs the ice in her glass
with her elegant finger
I want to be what she's drinking, yeah,
I just want to be

I saw you first
I'm the first on tonight
I saw you first
Don't that give me the right
To move around in your heart

Everyone was looking
But I saw you first
On a moon spattered road
in her parrot rebozo
Gypsy Scotty is driving
the big long yellow car

She flies like a bird over his shoulder
She whispers in his ear,
boy, you are my star
But I saw you first

Everyone was looking
In the bone colored dawn,
me and Gypsy Scotty are singin'
The radio is playing,
she left her shoes out in the back

He tells me a story
about some girl he know in Kentucky
He just made that story up,
there ain't no girl like that

But I saw you first I'm the first one tonight
Yes I saw you first
Don't that give me the right
To move around in your heart
Everyone was looking
But I saw you first


John Mellencamp