A Rock n' Roll Tragedy

Cigarettes

Whiskey from the bottle

Scattered photographs from the past

And on the "Rolling Stone"

Faces of the Gods and Kings

Looking down from their thrones

They court me

They haunt me

While I dance like a moth drawn to the flame

I would rather burn alive than fade away

They love me

They kill me

Before my time

So, the whole wide world can see

It's just another rock n' roll tragedy

It’s just another rock n’ roll tragedy 

The New York Times

Snaps a shot of people crying

As the news hits the street

Someone writes a book

Fills it up with lies

About the sex and all the drugs I took

They hurt me

They hold me while I dance

Like a moth drawn to the flame

But, I was born to burn alive, not fade away

Love me

Or, Kill me

Before my time

So, the whole wide world can see

It’s just another rock n' roll tragedy

It’s just another rock n' roll tragedy

It’s just another rock n' roll tragedy

I close my eyes

I don't want to wake up

To my ordinary life

my ordinary life

my ordinary life

my ordinary life

my ordinary life

my ordinary life

I would rather be

Just another rock n' roll tragedy

©Eric Saitz

"While searching for the song/file 'While Her City Burns,' which, sadly for me, appears to have been deleted from existence by yours truly, I ran across a song that didn’t make the cut for a scrapped album I was working on before I did 'My Alter Ego Says Hello.' The song is at least twelve years old. Here is the title track which was my take on the "Curse of the 27" and the only song left out of ten that I can find from that time period. I would be willing to make a big wager that I have lost or misplaced more songs than most artists have written. It's not, obviously, a good thing, but every once in a while, I find a decent lost track. I am just posting this for my friends. I did find the album cover that Erik Juardo reworks and posted way back in the day 😊."