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Where Are You Tonight? Lyrics

There's a long-distance train rolling through the rainTears on the letter I writeThere's a woman I long to touch and I'm missin' her so muchBut she's drifting like a satelliteThere's a neon light ablaze in a green smoky hazeAnd laughter down on Elizabeth StreetThere's a lonesome bell tone in that valley of stoneWhere she bathed in a stream of pure heatHer father would emphasize you got to be more than street-wiseBut he practiced what he preached from the heartA full-blooded Cherokee, he predicted it to meThe time and the place that we'd partThere's a babe in the arms of a woman in a rageAnd a longtime golden-haired stripper onstageAnd she winds back the clock and she turns back the pageOf a book that nobody can writeOh, where are you tonight?The truth was obscure, too profound and too pureTo live it you had to explodeIn that last hour of need, we entirely agreedSacrifice was the code of the roadSee Bob Dylan LiveGet tickets as low as $90You might also likeI left town at dawn, with Marcel and St. JohnStrong men belittled by doubtI couldn't tell her what my private thoughts wereBut she had some way of finding them outHe took dead-center aim, but he missed just the sameShe was waiting, putting flowers on the shelfShe could feel my despair as I climbed up her hairAnd discovered her invisible selfThere's a lion in the road, there's a demon escapedThere's a million dreams gone, there's a landscape being rapedAs her beauty fades and I watch her undrapeWell I won't, but then maybe again, I mightOh, if I could just find you tonightI fought with my twin, that enemy withinTill both of us fell by the wayHorseplay and disease is killing me by degreesWhile the law looks the other wayYour partners in crime hit me up for nickels and dimesThe man you were lovin' could never get cleanIt felt out of place, my foot in his faceBut he shoulda stayed where his money was greenI bit into the root of forbidden fruitWith the juice running down my legThen I dealt with your boss, who'd never known about lossWho always was too proud to begThere's a white diamond gloom on the dark side of this roomAnd a pathway that leads up to the starsIf you don't believe there's a price for this sweet paradiseJust remind me to show you the scarsThere's a new day at dawn and I've finally arrivedIf I'm-a there in the morning, baby, you'll know I've survivedI can't believe it, I can't believe I'm aliveBut without you it doesn't seem rightOh, where are you tonight?EmbedCancel

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