Moonless Night

Can’t you hear me knockin’ on your doorway, when evening falls and no one’s around?

You feel the rumble of the freeway, and you see those lights on the Ohio

It was a moonless night in Wheeling, West Virginia, and Stella came down the stairs alone

Said “you really lost your head now, didn’t ya?” and we headed down along the Ohio

And I said “I need to fly, I need to be free, where there ain’t nobody got a hold on me

I’ve been walkin’ around with all I’ve found weighin’ all this time on me

And this is something that I need

You know I won’t beg to bleed”

The wind felt good rolling down the window, the motor burned the way I like it to

I watched her eyes in the passing shadows of the streetlights down along the Ohio

She had me waiting on her every move, holding me there by the tip of her tongue

She whispered all she could not prove to the 10th St. bridge across the Ohio

We hit the rail doin’ ninety-seven, and never once did I touch the brake

Stella took my last confession, and the searchlights gleamed on the Ohio

And the sirens screamed on the Ohio

And we sank right down into the water below

Now it’s a moonless night in Wheeling, West Virginia, and you see those lights on the Ohio