Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire - Live at Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles, CA, 8/14-17, 1974

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Cold Blue Steel out of money
 One eye for the beat police
 Sweet Fire calling
 "You can't deny me
 Now you know what you need"
 Underneath the jungle gym
 Hollow-grey-fire-escape-thief
 Looking for Sweet Fire
 Shadow of Lady Release
 "Come with me
 I know the way" she says
 "It's down, down, down the dark ladder
 Do you want to contact somebody first?
 Leave someone a letter?
 You can come now
 Or you can come later"
 A wristwatch, a ring, a downstairs screamer
 Edgy - black cracks of the sky
 "Pin-cushion-prick-
 Fix this poor bad dreamer!"
 "Money" cold shadows reply
 Pawnshops crisscrossed and padlocked
 Corridors spit on prayers and pleas
 Sparks fly up from Sweet Fire
 Black soot of Lady Release
 "Come with me
 I know the way" she says
 "It's down, down, down the dark ladder
 Do you want to contact somebody first?
 Does it really matter
 You can come now
 Or you can come later?"
 Red water in the bathroom sink
 Fever and the scum brown bowl
 Blue Steel still begging
 But it's indistinct
 Someone's HI-Fi drumming Jelly Roll
 Concrete concentration camp
 Bashing in veins for peace
 Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire
 Fall into Lady Release
 "Come with me
 I know the way" she says
 "It's down, down, down the dark ladder
 Do you want to contact somebody first?
 I mean what does it really matter?
 You're going to come now
 Or you're going to come later"
 

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Duration
05:23
Tempo
104 BPM

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