And it came like I knew it would

Stark raving mad love

Mad love in black and in white

And dreams of knives at night

When I can sleep if I can sleep

Beneath the batwinged umbrella spread

And the shadow it cast

Ruby Red and the Martini tilt of her smile

Found me in the rain

And later in some place warm

Where the wet ran the ink from her eye

I tought I'd die

While she twisted a bit in a blue coat

And smiled

She called me lucky like it was a question

And in her crooked script

She scratched a note and shoved it into my hand

And it said "You're my main man"

And whoa goddamn

Like crazy Kelly the streets sung for me

A song of blue moons and Johnny Mercer tunes

And I was dizzy and headspun and never got caught

Noticing never

Nothing but her smile

And all the while ruin lay for me

Laid low and waited for me

Like the dark and angry animal

Of the balance of my sin