Some Journey Lyrics

Some Journey lyrics

Suzanne Vega

  

  If I had met you on some journey

  Where would we be now

  If we had met some eastbound train

  Through some black sleeping town

  

  Would you have worn your silken robes

  All made of royal blue?

  Would I have dressed in smoke and fire

  For you to see through?

  

  If we had met in a darkened room

  Where people do not stay

  But shadows touch and pass right through

  And never see the day

  

  Would you have taken me upstairs

  And turned the lamplight low?

  Would I have shown my secret self

  And disappeared like the snow?

  

  Oh, I could have played your little girl

  Or I could have played your wife

  I could have played your mistress

  Running danger down through you life

  

  I could have played your lady fair

  All dressed in lace like the foam from the sea

  I could have been your woman of the road

  As long as you did not come back home to me

  

  But as it is, we live in the city

  And everything stays in place

  Instead we meet on the open sidewalk

  And it's well I know your face

  

  We talk and talk, we tell t

 There are no shadows here

  But when I look into your eyes

  I wonder what might have been here

  

  Because if I had met you on some journey

  Where would we be now?