Lyrics to Where Are You Tonight (Journey Through Dark Heat)

This version of Where Are You Tonight (Journey Through Dark Heat) was released by Bob Dylan in 1978.

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There’s a long distance train rolling through the rain, tears on the letter I write
There’s a woman I long to touch and I miss her so much but she’s drifting
like a satelite
There’s a neon light ablaze in the green smoky haze, and laughter down on
Elizabeth Street
And a lonesome bell tone in that valley of stone where she bathed
in a stream of pure heat
Her father would emphasize you got to be more than street-wise but he practiced
what he preached from the heart
A full-blooded Cherokee, he predicted it to me the time and the place it
would start.

There’s a babe in the arms of a woman in a rage
And a longtime golden-haired stripper onstage
And she winds back the clock and she turns back the page
Of a book that nobody write
Oh, where are you tonight ?

The truth was obscure, too profound and too pure, to live it you have to explode
In the last hour of need, we entirely agreed, sacrifice was the code of the road
I left town at dawn, with Marcel and St. John, strong men betitled by doubt
I couldn’t tell her what my private thoughts were but she had some way of finding
them out
He took dead-center aim but he missed just the same, she was waiting putting
flowers on the shelf
She could feel my despair as I climbed up her hair and discovered her invisible self.

There’s a lion in the road, there’s a demon escaped
There’s a million dreams gone, there’s a landscape being raped
As her beauty fades and I watch her undrape
I won’t but then again, maybe I might
Oh, if I could just find you tonight.
I fought with ny twin, that enemy within, ’til both of us fell by the way
Horseplay and disease is killing me by degrees while the law looks the other way
Your partners in crime hit me up for nickels and dimes, the man you were loving
couldn’t never get clean
It felt outa place, my foot in his face, but he should-a stayed where his money
was green
I bit into the root of forbidden fruit with the juice running down my leg
Then I dealt with your boss, who’d never known about loss and who always was too
proud to beg
There’s a white diamond gloom on the dark side of this room and a pathway that
leads up to the stars
If you don’t believe there’s a price for this sweet paradise, just remind me to show
you the scars.

There’s a new day at dawn and I’ve finally arrived
If I’m there in the morning, baby, you’ll know I’ve survived
I can’t believe it, I can’t believe I’m alive
But without you it just doesn’t seem right
Oh, where are you tonight ?

About Lyrics and Where Are You Tonight (Journey Through Dark Heat) by Bob Dylan

When you decide to study the lyrics to Where Are You Tonight (Journey Through Dark Heat), you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1978 song by Bob Dylan. Some of the lyrics to Where Are You Tonight (Journey Through Dark Heat) have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Bob Dylan and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Where Are You Tonight (Journey Through Dark Heat) if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Where Are You Tonight (Journey Through Dark Heat)" means the words set to the music of Where Are You Tonight (Journey Through Dark Heat), or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Bob Dylan. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Where Are You Tonight (Journey Through Dark Heat) and the lyrics to Where Are You Tonight (Journey Through Dark Heat) are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Bob Dylan who came here looking just for the lyrics to Where Are You Tonight (Journey Through Dark Heat), but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.