Where Are You Tonight? (Journey Through Dark Heat)

There's a long distance train rolling through the rain Tears on the letter I write There's a woman I long to touch and I missin' her so much But she's drifting like a satellite There's a neon light ablaze in the green smoky haze And laughter down on Elizabeth Street There's 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 it to me The time and the place that we part There's a babe in the arms of a woman in a rage And a longtime golden-haired stripper on stage And she winds back the clock and she turns back the page Of a book that nobody can write Oh, where are you tonight? The truth was obscure, too profound and too pure To live it you had to explode And at the last hour of need, we entirely agreed Sacrifice was the code of the road I left town at dawn, with Marcel and 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 And 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 and I watch her undrape But I won't but then maybe again, 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 and disease is killing me by degrees While the law looks the other way Your partners in crime hit me up for nickels and dimes The man you were loving couldn't never get clean It felt out of place, my foot in his face But he should've 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 And a pathway that leads up to the stars If you don't believe there's a price for this sweet paradise Just remind me to show you the stars There's a new day at dawn, and 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 doesn't seem right Oh, where are you tonight?