Dark Side

There you stood in a mosaic doorway Just out of the rain on a winter Monday None of your street men or dealers around Just you and me and a quiet sound The cold rain on the awning crawling the gutters to the ground I was meant to be with a doctor's child A good blond girl with a benevolent smile And spend my teenage years with my future bride Dancing in halls beneath grim fluorescent lights But those times were from another life of mine... Show me the dark side Jackie Marie God knows what I'm running from but I feel so free Show me the black behind your fatalist smile There's no coming back after a while Something in the wind shaking this lean-to's spine And the way your eyes stay afire through the pills and cheap wine Lay down your weapons, your anger, your devil's guile And hold my body like a lonely child Oh you are fond of the gentle taste of death, as am I Show me the dark side Jackie Marie God knows what we're running from but I feel so free Show me the black behind your fatalist smile There's no turning back after a while... Show me the dark side, Jackie Show me the dark side, Jackie Marie Show me the dark side, Jackie Show me the dark side, Jackie Marie There's no going back after a while You can never go back... after a while