Save This Lady

Red Hot Chili Peppers

I got more love than anything else
But a Jezebel spirit gonna steal my health
Struck by the notion that it just might be
A method to the madness that I cannot see

Something for the freedom of a roughed-up soul
Forty-two years young is a little bit old
Boy named Sue sing a Tennessee tune
Got buffalo love living on the moon

[chorus]
Save this lady for me (x4)

Call me Alabama i'm a Seminole prize
Got time square hair and a bedroom eyes
Keystone cops and the billy bob chops
Gonna scare my kids gonna share my crops

Vampire blood and a baseball glove
Justa a little bit of what the girl is made of
National crash into the big lampoon
With a creature coming up from the black lagoon

[chorus]

Losing ground true sounds of liberty
The forest of the north might hold the key

Rocking to the rhythm of a ragtime band
Black flag wave on on my truck my man
Blasting for jones and the great unknowns
Got cheap cologne seventy-six trombones

Looking for the lady that won't be afraid
When heaven needs a hammer gotta get things made
I got more love than anything else
But a Jezebel spirit gonna steal my health

[chorus] (x2)


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Save This Lady Lyrics as written by John Anthony Frusciante Michael Balzary

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    "Born named Sue sing a Tennessee tune" definetely is "Boy named Sue sang a Tennessee tune", reference to johnny cash song "boy named sue".

    Hump De Bumpon March 03, 2007   Link

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