| I run at things too fast, | |
| only give them half a chance- | |
| Say what you want, what you will, | |
| but it's true. | |
| I'm far too lazy, | |
| I do enough but nothing more. | |
| I like to drink, I like to play- | |
| Do you too? | |
| You never know | |
| just what the blues are like | |
| until you take | |
| a taste of the sweet life. | |
| I found an angel, | |
| a reason to smile- | |
| A best friend. | |
| Until I knew her I never knew | |
| what a woman can do- | |
| Did what she want, did what she will- | |
| Is it true? | |
| She holds her own, she holds mine too, | |
| we do a marry dance. | |
| Do what we want, do what we will- | |
| Do you too? | |
| I brush her hair | |
| and it crackles with the static- | |
| I never meant to kiss her, | |
| it was purely automatic. | |
| She's my angel, | |
| she's my Betty Blue, | |
| she's my best friend. | |
| (solo) | |
| Her fingers drumming time, drumming time, | |
| Drumming on my heating heart. | |
| I got it good, I've got it bad- | |
| It's true, uh-huh. | |
| You never know | |
| just what the blues are like | |
| until you take | |
| a taste of the sweet life. | |
| I found an angel, | |
| a reason to smile- | |
| A best friend. | |
| She's gone, | |
| she's out of sight, | |
| she's my love me tender, | |
| my P. G. fright, | |
| my lady day in the dead of night, | |
| my best friend. | |
| She's my best friend. |