I walked the old eroded streets
A million miles now have gone behind me
Walked in the room, soaked up its fumes

Surveyed the faces I am lying to

Gave what I had, I gave my heart

Though I was broken and falling apart
Gave for the memory of a friend
Not for myself and not for them


When I was done I met someone
She came in from the storm so bright and welcome

Her friends came and swept her away
Disappeared like coyotes off on dark high plains


I looked across the river so still
Trying to remember
Where it was last night I laid my head to sleep

Where the empty night hung heavily over

I left Bilbao, went to Madrid

To Barcelona, to Pamplona
Where every ghost unto me known
Haunted me


I flew in over the red clay roofs
And floated through the clouds as they swelled and shook

The bronze tinted land and sea
And houses row the hills like yellowing teeth


When we touched down, opened my eyes to the sun
The dizzying air filled my lungs
And just as soon she woke me

My eyes blurry, my mind heavy

I left Milan, I went to Rome

And carried her aroma to Verona
And all the kindness she had shown
Was only a dream


The flurries danced on cold grey tombs
The frozen nights where ignored souls live

As last rays of daylight died
I'm blowing into my hands and clearing my eyes


And as the train pulled away from Cologne
The noise dimmed once so loudly it had grown
And as the engines burned through the night

I stared off at far-away lights

I left Berlin and I came home

To sleepy potions and blue oceans
Where my love so selflessly
Awaited me


I long to feel her light so warm
My thoughts racing to the places

Where her room invitingly
Awaited me


As the ocean brings in its high tide
As the darkness sets upon the beach
As we drive we look out at black cows

Glowing store windows in old gold rush towns

Over the bridge, the city sparkles so bright

Our hungry stomachs smell bread rise
Dim light of television, bedding soft down
And hear the perfect night as foghorns sound