There was heat in the air and cops everywhere you looked

There wasn't a lot so the breaks

That you got you know you took

And I remember wonderin' where you'd been

The night Spanish Eddie cashed it in

The night Spanish Eddie cashed it in

They were playing Desolation Row on the radio

The night Spanish Eddie fell from grace

There was amazement on his face

On the night that Eddie failed

Sanity prevailed

It was June or July when the heat from above beat down

It was famine or drought

When the brothers went out of style uptown

And we was mixin' Vicks with lemon gin

The night Spanish Eddie cashed it in

The night Spanish Eddie cashed it in

They were playing Desolation Row on the radio

The night Spanish Eddie made front page

His revolution came of age

He wrote surrender on the wall

The night he took the fall

I heard someone say he's trying to fly

Like Eddie used to say we'll do when we die

I know someone turned you for a fin

The night Spanish Eddie cashed it in

The night Spanish Eddie cashed it in

They were playing Desolation Row on the radio

The night Spanish Eddie fell from grace

There was amazement on his face

On the night that Eddie failed

Sanity prevailed

The night Spanish Eddie cashed it in

They were playing Desolation Row on the radio

The night Spanish Eddie cashed it in

They were playing Desolation Row on the radio

The night Spanish Eddie cashed it in

They were playing Desolation Row on the radio

The night Spanish Eddie cashed it in