Loretta's Tale - Steve Harley, Cockney Rebel

Watch Loretta taste the wine

Kick the Actor from behind

Sprawl across the sofa, then

Speak of foreign towns again

Like the loner, seek Marlene,

Ask the waitress: Where you been?

She says: Don’t give me no lies,

I been inside your head at least three times…

I never lost control

It was a very weird show

And all I ever got was oh!

Are you never gonna go?

Spy Ramona by the door

Calling me the Perfect Whore

Only Sweet Loretta speaks

Wipe the humour from your cheeks

And as the make-up starts to fade

She doesn’t wait, she hides away

Noticing her friends had gone

She cried to me: Oh!

What went wrong?

For Loretta-one

She only played for fun

She gave her life away

Counted hundreds, came to none…