Key West Intermezzo (i Saw You First) Lyrics - Singles - Mellencamp John Cougar

In a hand painted night, me and Gypsy Scotty are partners 

At the Hotel Flamingo, wearing black market shoes 

This loud Cuban band is crucifying John Lennon 

No one wants to be lonely, no one wants to sing the blues 

She's perched like a parrot on his tuxedo shoulder 

Christ, what's she doing with him, she could be 

Dancing with me 

She stirs the ice in her glass with her elegant finger 

I want to be what she's drinking, yeah, I just want to be 

I saw you first 

I'm the first on tonight 

I saw you first 

Don't that give me the right 

To move around in your heart 

Everyone was looking 

But I saw you first 

On a moon spattered road in her parrot rebozo 

Gypsy Scotty is driving he big long yellow car 

She flies like a bird over his shoulder 

She whispers in his ear, boy, you are my star 

But I saw you first 

I'm the first one tonight 

Yes I saw you first 

Don't that give me the right 

To move around in your heart 

Everyone was looking 

In the bone colored dawn, me and Gypsy Scotty are singin' 

The radio is playing, she left her shoes out in the back 

He tells me a story about some girl he know in Kentucky 

He just made that story up, there ain't no girl like that 

But I saw you first I'm the first one tonight 

Yes I saw you first 

Don't that give me the right 

To move around in your heart 

Everyone was looking 

But I saw you first 

I saw you first