Someone's Got a Hold of My Heart - Studio Outtake - 1983

They say "Drink and be merry
Take the bull by the horns."
I keep seeing visions of you, a lily among thorns
Everything looks a little far away to me

Gettin' harder and harder to recognize the trap
Too much information about nothin'
Too much educated rap
It's just like you told me, just like you said it would be

The moon rising like wildfire
I feel the breath of a storm
There's something I got to do tonight
You go inside and stay warm

Someone's got a hold of my heart
Someone's got a hold of my heart
Someone's got a hold of my heart
You, you, you, you, you
Yeah, you got a hold of my heart

Just got back from a city of powder blue skies
Everybody thinks with their stomach
And there's plenty of spies
Every street is crooked, they just wind around until they disappear

Madame Butterfly, she lulls me to sleep
Like an ancient river
So wide and deep
She said, "Be easy, baby, ain't nothin' worth stealin' here"

You're the one I've been waitin' for
You're the one I desire
But you must first realize
I'm not another man for hire

Someone's got a hold of my heart
Someone's got a hold of my heart
Someone's got a hold of my heart
You, you, you, you, you
Yeah, you got a hold of my heart

I hear the hot-blooded singer
On the bandstand croon
Poisoned Love, Red Roses for a Blue Lady, Memphis in June
While they're beating the devil out of a guy who's wearing a flaming red wig

I've been to Babylon
And I've got to confess
I can still hear that voice crying in the wilderness
What looks large from a distance, close up is never that big
Never could learn to drink that blood and call it wine
Never could learn to look at your face and call it mine

Someone's got a hold of my heart
Someone's got a hold of my heart
Someone's got a hold of my heart
You, you, you, you, you
Yeah, you got a hold of my heart