Where Are You Tonight?
There's a long-distance train rolling through the rain, tears on the letter i write.
There's a woman i long to touch & i miss her so much but she's drifting like a
Satellite. there's a neon light ablaze in this green smoky haze, laughter down on
Elizabeth street
And a lonesome bell tone in that valley of stone where she bathed in a stream of pure
Heat. her father would emphasize you got to be more than street-wise but he practiced
What he preached from the heart.
A full-blooded cherokee, he predicted to me the time & the place that
The trouble would start.
There's a babe in the arms of a woman in a rage
And a longtime golden-haired stripper onstage
And she winds back the clock & she turns back the page
Of a book that no one can write.
Oh, where are you tonight?
The truth was obscure, too profound & too pure, to live it you have to explode.
In that last hour of need, we entirely agreed, sacrifice was the code of the road.
I left town at dawn, with marcel & st. john, strong men belittled by doubt.
I couldn't tell her what my private thoughts were but she had some way of finding
Them out. he took dead-center aim but he missed just the same, she was waiting,
Putting
Flowers on the shelf.
She could feel my despair as i climbed up her hair & discovered her invisible self.
There's a lion in the road, there's a demon escaped,
There's a million dreams gone, there's a landscape being raped,
As her beauty fades & i watch her undrape,
I won't, but then again, maybe i might.
Oh, if i could just find you tonight.
I fought with my twin, that enemy within, 'til both of us fell by the way.
Horseplay & disease is killing me by degrees while the law looks the other way.
Your partners in crime hit me up for nickels & dimes, the guy you were lovin'
Couldn't stay clean.
It felt outa place, my foot in his face, but he should-a stayed where his money was
Green.
I bit into the root of forbidden fruit with the juice running down my leg.
Then i dealt with your boss, who'd never known about loss & who always was
Too proud to beg.
There's a white diamond gloom on the dark side of this room & a pathway that leads
Up to the stars.
If you don't believe there's a price for this sweet paradise, remind me to show you the
Scars.
There's a new day at dawn & i've finally arrived.
If i'm there in the morning, baby, you'll know i've survived.
I can't believe it, i can't believe i'm alive,
But without you it just doesn't seem right.
Oh, where are you tonight?
