Etta James

Did you spend most of your life waitin'

On a fairy tale read between pages?

Did you huddle up close to your boom box radio

With somebody waitin' on the same song?

And we sold our souls on the fantasies

We found in records and black and white movies

And I used to beg June to burn me alive

If that would get me anywhere to you

Now Etta James hid that symphony

'Cause she drifts through my blood like a remedy

And for most of my sad life

I figured I was gonna die alone

'Cause I just burn in the curve of my scars

Twenty long years away from your heart

Till finally, finally, my love is in my arms

My love is in my arms

And it was impossible to hold on to anything

In my chest was a lonesome, growing cyclone

I kept pictures tacked down to the rear view above

Till the sirens are lost in the ocean

And all we wanted was absolutely everything

Like foolish, hungry, young lions

I was lost and alone a million light years from home

It was nobody's fault but mine

Now Etta James hid that symphony

'Cause she drifts through my blood like a remedy

And for most of my sad life

I figured I was gonna die alone

'Cause I just burn in the curve of my scars

Twenty long years away from your heart

But finally, finally, my love is in my arms

And was there a hole in your life?

Did you kill to keep warm but somehow never quite satisfied?

Do you feel like it's always time to go?

And it's always wrong, and it's always off

And it's hard to know which heart to hold

Now do you lie with someone

With someone else on your mind?

Do you lie to someone

With me on your mind?

Now Etta James hid that symphony

'Cause she drifts through my blood like a remedy

And for most of my sad life

I figured I was gonna die alone

'Cause I just burn in the curve of my scars

Twenty long years away from your heart

Till finally, finally, my love is in my arms

My love is in my arms

Etta James, Etta James

Etta James, sing it one time for my pain

Etta James, Etta James

Etta James, sing it one time for my pain

Etta James, Etta James

Etta James, sing it one time for my pain

Etta James, Etta James

Etta James, sing it one time for my pain

And I coulda said my love has come along