Down in Her Arms

[Verse 1]
Down in her arms on a three-day drunk
When the world was still lawless and wild
With the last drop gone and the lust all shrunk
I clung to her chest like a child

[Chorus 1]
Too weak to hold on to the little I had
Too ensnared to walk off unharmed
But to curl up and die didn't look all that bad
Down in her arms

[Verse 2]
Down in her arms, [East Houston?] at dawn
Played under her breath in my ear
The pretty blue howl of a Joan Jett song
We were all poor and angry that year

[Chorus 2]
A city in flames and the hounds at the wall
Valhalla seemed not very far
Just one small step and a bottomless fall
Down in her arms

[Bridge]
Staring back at the path my passion led down
From a twelfth floor bedroom to the edge of endless dreams
Baby, touch me now

[Verse 3]
Down in her arms, I looked up and caught
A glimpse of a magical love
But in a flash, it was just another false god
Struck down and dragged through the mud

[Chorus 3]
In the faraway room he knelt by my wife
His hands slowly working their charm
While I shut my eyes and held on for life
Down in her arms