On the Dark Side of Town

on the dark side of town(janis ian)i wound up talking with your wifeshe says you've got another lifethought you'd finally settled downbut yuo keep on going 'round to the dark side of townthen you make your getawayand she prays for it to pass, and you say that it won't lastbecause you're going nowhere faston the dark side of town, where new lovers meetat the old lost and found on the edge of the streetand the noon shadows hide from the fire outsideon the dark side of town, where some woman waitsto worship your crown, to burn at your stakei lay myself down on the dark side of townshe says you fill her with desirebut when you want her, you're a liarshe can taste it on your breathcutting through the cigaretteshe can smell it on your sweatyou've been taking off your ringwomen see these little thingsyou might think it doesn't showbut it shows how far you'll goto feed the fire down belowon the dark side of town, where new lovers meetat the old lost and found on the edge of the streetand the noon shadows hide from the fire outsideon the dark side of town, where some woman waitsto worship your crown, to burn at your stakei lay myself down on the dark side of towni said --i know that woman welland i will see her soul in hellbefore i let her carry on 'til all your hope is goneman, you should have seen her smilelike she'd known it all the whileand she said - thank you from me and my childthank you from me and my childon the dark side of town, where new lovers meetat the old lost and found on the edge of the streetand the noon shadows hide from the fire outsideon the dark side of town, where some woman waitsto worship your crown, to burn at your stakei lay myself down on the dark side of town