Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First) [1999]

[Verse 1]

In a hand painted night, me and Gypsy Scotty are partners

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

[Verse 2]

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 wanna be what she's drinking, yes, I just want to be

[Chorus]

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

I saw you first

[Verse 3]

On a moon-spattered road in her parrot rebozo

Gypsy Scotty's driving his big long yellow car

She flies like a bird over his shoulder

She whispers in his ear, "Boy, you are my star"

[Chorus]

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

[Verse 4]

In a bone-colored dawn, me and Gypsy Scotty are singing

Radio is playing, she left her shoes out in the back

He tells me a story about some girl he knows in Kentucky

He just made that story up, there ain't no girl like that

[Chorus]

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

I saw you first

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah