Belied old friend of mine
Too far, too much
For a long time been comin'
I know nothin but sweetness and light
And these dark blue-eyed blues
In the night.

Can you not use, as you once did
This servant for freedom
The beauty that maybe
Might make you stay?
Better to live in your own dreams
Of maiden madonnas
No plain lovin' mama will do.

Belied old friend of mine
Too far, too much
For a long time been coming'.
You know nothin' but sweetness and light
And these dark blue-eyed blues
In the night.

It's a bottom we approach
Open-handed and hearted.
The pain is now smarted by friends who affirm
All my rightness, his wrongness
And I'm just a songstress of notions gone wrong.

Free me of notions,
Salt-eyed emotions,
Free me of notions
Gone wrong.

Have you not felt for a moment
A dark blue-eyed baby
A sweet angel lady
Who made you cry?
Do you not need in the meantime
A sweetness like old times
Who'd never get on your wrong side?

Belied old friend of mine
Too far, too much
From a real thing been runnin'.
I know nothin' but sweetness and light
And these dark blue-eyed blues
In the night.