Suzanne Vega - Ome Journey Lyrics
If I had met you on some journeyWhere would we be nowIf we had met some eastbound trainThrough some black sleeping townWould you have worn your silken robesAll made of royal blue?Would I have dressed in smoke and fireFor you to see through?If we had met in a darkened roomWhere people do not stayBut shadows touch and pass right throughAnd never see the dayWould you have taken me upstairsAnd turned the lamplight low?Would I have shown my secret selfAnd disappeared like the snow?Oh, I could have played your little girlOr I could have played your wifeI could have played your mistressRunning danger down through you lifeI could have played your lady fairAll dressed in lace like the foam from the seaI could have been your woman of the roadAs long as you did not come back home to meBut as it is, we live in the cityAnd everything stays in placeInstead we meet on the open sidewalkAnd its well I know your faceWe talk and talk, we tell the truthThere are no shadows hereBut when I look into your eyesI wonder what might have been hereBecause if I had met you on some journeyWhere would we be now?
