on the dark side of town

Lyrics

i wound up talking with your wife, she says you've got another life, thought you'd finally settled down, but you keep on going 'round to the dark side of town, she says you promise not to stray, then you make your getaway, and she prays for it to pass, and you say that it won't last, because you're going nowhere fast, on the dark side of town, where new lovers meet, at the old lost and found on the edge of the street, and the noon shadows hide from the fires outside, on the dark side of town, where some woman waits, to worship your crown, to burn at your stake, i lay myself down on the dark side of town, she says you fill her with desire, but when you want her, you're a liar, she can taste it on your breath, cutting through the cigarette, she can smell it on your sweat, you've been taking off your ring, women see these little things, you might think it doesn't show, but it shows how far you'll go, to feed the fire down below, on the dark side of town, where new lovers meet, at the old lost and found on the edge of the street, and the noon shadows hide from the fire outside, on the dark side of town, where some woman waits, to worship your crown, to burn at your stake, i lay myself down on the dark side of town, i said - i know that woman well, and i will see her soul in hell, before i let her carry on 'til all your hope is gone, man, you should have seen her smile, like she'd known it all the while, and she said - thank you from me and my child, thank you from me and my child, on the dark side of town, where new lovers meet, at the old lost and found on the edge of the street, and the noon shadows hide from the fire outside, on the dark side of town, where some woman waits, to worship your crown, to burn at your stake, i lay myself down on the dark side of town