Bob Dylan - Where Are You Tonight Journey Through Dark Heat

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there’s a long – distance train rolling through the rain ,
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tears on the letter i write .
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there’s a woman i long to touch and i’m missing her so much
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but she’s drifting like a satellite .
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there’s a neon light ablaze in this green smoky haze ,
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laughter down on elizabeth street
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and a lonesome bell tone in that valley of stone
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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 and the place that we’d part .

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there’s a baby in the arms of a woman in a rage
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and a longtime golden – haired stripper onstage
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and she winds back the clock and she turns back the page
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of a book that nobody can write .
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oh , where are you tonight?

the truth was obscure , too profound and 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 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 ,
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 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 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
and 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 ,
remind me to show you the scars .

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 just doesn’t seem right .
oh , where are you tonight?