Joan Baez - Alter Boy And The Thief Lyrics
At night in the safety of shadows and numbersSeeking some turf on which nothing encumbersThe buying and selling of casual looksStuff that gets printed in x-rated booksYour mother might have tried to understandWhen you were hardly your daddy's little manAnd you gave up saluting the chiefTo find yourself some reliefFinely plucked eyebrows and skin of satinSmiling seductive and endlessly LatinOlympic body on dancing feetPerfume thickening the air like heatA transient star of gay bar fameYou quit your job and changed your nameAnd you're nearly beyond beliefAs you hunt down a little reliefThe seven foot black with the emerald ringBroke up a fight without saying a thingAs the cops cruised by wanting one more chanceTo send Jimmy Baldwin back over to FranceAnd a trucker with kids and a wifePrefers to spend half of his lifeIn early Bohemian motifPlaying pool and getting reliefMy favorite couple was looking so fineDancing in rhythm and laughing in rhymeIn the light of the jukebox all yellow and blueHolding each other as young lovers doTo me they will always remainUnshamed, untamed, and unblamedThe altar boy and the thiefGrabbing themselves some reliefThe altar boy and the thiefCatching a little relief