Crime of Passion - SATV Music

On A Bright Day She Passed Away In The Morning It's A Cruel Way To Take Her Away With No Warning He Took Her Hand Through Every Midnight Hour And Then He Saw Her Fading Away Like A Spring Shower I Can See A Complete Life's Time Pictures And Posters Of Times And Fashion Nineteen Years With No Reason Or Rhyme Taken Away In A Crime Of Passion... Oohh... Passion livin' the night Oohh... Passion livin' the night Oohh... Passion livin' the night Oohh... Passion livin' the night He Stood To See If He Could Catch Her Breathing But It Was No Good He Understood She Was Leaving He Looked Outside The Frosty Window Pane And Then He Saw Her Moving Away Elizabeth Jane I Can See A Complete Life's Time Pictures And Posters Of Times And Fashion Nineteen Years With No Reason Or Rhyme Taken Away In A Crime Of Passion... Oohh... Passion livin' the night Oohh... Passion livin' the night Oohh... Passion livin' the night Oohh... Passion livin' the night

By: Jimmy Buffett, Tom Corcoran 1973 Well now Billy Voltaire was a piano player up from Miami way He used to play in the bars, he could sound like the stars Ladies would pay and pay One night he did wind up playin' in Havana town Nobody knew, least Billy Voltaire that these were his final sounds He met up with Meritta, a dancer in from the Coast Half woman, half child, she drove him half wild He loved that lady the most One night he did find her in the arms of Shrimper Dan So he pulled a knife, took poor Danny's life And then he turned his own cold hand And it's just a Cuban crime of passion Messy and old fashioned Yeah, that's what the papers did say It's just a Cuban crime of passion Anjejo and knives a slashin' Yeah but that's what the people like to read about Up in America, up in America Well now they never found Meritta, some people say she got ill Billy Voltaire had no one to claim him, he was buried on pauper's hill And no one talks about 'em no more, it happened just a week ago But people get by and people get high In the tropics they come and they go And it's just a Cuban crime of passion Messy and old fashioned Yeah, that's what the papers did say It's just a Cuban crime of passion Anjejo and knives a slashin' But that's what the people like to read about Up in America, up in America

On a bright day she passed away, in the morning It's a cruel way, to take her away with no warning He took her hands through every midnight hour And then he saw her fading away like a spring shower I can see a complete life's time Pictures and posters of times and fashion Nineteen years with no reason or rhyme Taken away in a crime of passion He stood to see if he could catch her breathing But it was no good, he understood she was leaving He looked outside the frosty windowpane And then he saw her moving away, Elizabeth Jane I can see a complete life's time Pictures and posters of times and fashion Nineteen years with no reason or rhyme Taken away in a crime of passion I see freedom in sight, it's a long climb But she would not give up the fight for a long time And I see a light come shining in tonight Baby, it's all right, we couldn't have changed it with second sight I can see a complete life's time Pictures and posters of times and fashion Nineteen years with no reason or rhyme Taken away in a crime of passion I see freedom light shining in the night I see freedom but she wouldn't give up the fight I see a light go shining in tonight Baby, it's all right, we couldn't have changed it with second sight I see a light go shining in tonight Baby, it's all right, we couldn't have changed it with second sight I see a light go shining in tonight Baby, it's all right, we couldn't have changed it with second sight I see a light go shining in tonight Baby, it's all right, we couldn't have changed it with second sight