Some Journey

If I had met you on some journey Where would we be now If we had met some eastbound train Would you have worn your silken robes Would I have dressed in smoke and fire Through some black sleeping town All made of royal blue? For you to see through? Where people do not stay But shadows touch and pass right through If we had met in a darkened room And never see the day Would I have shown my secret self Would you have taken me upstairs And disappeared like the snow? And turned the lamplight low? Oh, I could have played your little girl Or I could have played your wife I could have played your mistress I could have played your lady fair Running danger down through you life As long as you did not come back home to me All dressed in lace like the foam from the sea I could have been your woman of the road And everything stays in place But as it is, we live in the city Instead we meet on the open sidewalk And it's well I know your face We talk and talk, we tell the truth But when I look into your eyes I wonder what might have been here There are no shadows here Where would we be nowBecause if I had met you on some journey