WHERE ARE YOU TONIGHT! (JOURNEY THROUGH DARK HEAT)



photo: nate boguszewski



Bob Dylan est une véritable obsession en ce moment et notamment cette chanson d'errance nocturne, paradoxalement optimiste dans la mélodie et poétique dans le texte.



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 miss her so much but she's
drifting like a satelite There's a neon light
ablaze in the green smoky haze, and laughter down
on Elizabeth Street And 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 it
would start.

There's a babe in the arms of a woman in a rage
And a longtime golden-haired stripper onstage And
she winds back the clock and she turns back the
page Of a book that nobody write Oh, where are you
tonight ?

The truth was obscure, too profound and too pure,
to live it you have to explode In 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 betitled by doubt I couldn't
tell her what my private thoughts were but she had
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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 ny 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 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, just 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 ?

WHERE ARE YOU TONIGHT! (JOURNEY THROUGH DARK HEAT)