Passport To Detroit

In Hong Kong city

At a chowder stand down from Kowloon

Met a junkie into syncronicity

He'd made all the phases of the spoon

He said mister I am able

To map the Cairo water table

But nowhere on my charts

Does it say how to mend a heart

In old Genoa

Behind some dump truck driver's door

There as a lady who was dressed up

Like Marlene before the war

Opinion held that she was ice

Oh but you could glimpse paradise

If you leaned close in the dark

And you told her how to mend a heart

Wait for all the lights,

All the lights in town to go out,

Avoid looking in the mirror

Turn the car and go south

Follow the Pole Star

Until she changes her petticoat

Check into a desert motel

And let the dam in the waters go broke

Some nameless project

Out by the twentieth zone

We got a leaper gonna jump for it

He's paid about all he was owing

He said I'm telling you the truth

I would not be on this roof

If I hadn't seen some kissing in the park

Or known how to mend a heart.