Shadowlands

Young girl in the city

She was a small town girl in the middle of the city of light

“What am I doing here?” she cried.

“What am I doing here?”

“I want to be dangerous

Like a fire in the sky

There’s burning barricades in the streets

And fire in my eyes.”

So there she sat with a diamond bullet in the

Center of her heart

No a mile from there are people living ten to

A room

Not a mile from here and a few streets further on

They’re sleepin’ in doorways, boxes, some of them children

And the sound of gunfire, cracks the night

In the shadow lands

And the saxophone, in the shadow lands, sings

She had nothing on but the radio

Her hair was nighttime black and here eyes compelling

Compelling me to dreams, “Go out and change the world,” she said

Compelling me to action

In the night striped with lightening

She will come and feed on dreams

Hair streaming forth, burnin’ with desire

And the storm deepens, cracks with thunder

Lust enters into it, sex! Mouth! Sweet! Blood red!

And as the sky explodes

And I’m drawn to action

(with her) It’s like the

First time that you really fell in love

And your both on the battle lines

And it’s like the first time that you’re really fuckin’ too

Alive in the bed with the woman you’re fuckin’

Who’s fuckin’ you

She is incredible, monumental, better than Jesus

She’s a guide through the chaos, a road to the passion

Between the earth and sky, where love is like a drug

And everything is different

And we two will love each other

And we will still remember our first kiss

As the action takes over

No thought of circumstance, or consequence

And all the rules have changed

And she’s a specialist, in darkness, in the shadow lands.