Tonight in Bilbao

I walked the old eroded streets

A million miles now have gone behind me

walked in the room, soaked up its fumes

Surveyed the faces I am lying to

Gave what I had, I gave my heart

Though I was broken and falling apart

Gave for the memory of a friend

Not for myself and not for them

When I was done I met someone

She came in from the storm so bright and welcome

Her friends came and swept her away

Disappeared like coyotes off on dark high plains

I looked across the river so still

Trying to remember

Where it was last night I laid my head to sleep

Where the empty night hung heavily over

I left bilbao went to Madrid

To Barcelona, to Pamplona

where every ghost runs in me now

Haunting me

I flew in over the red clay roofs

And floated through the clouds as they swallowed shut

The bronze tinted landing ?

And houses row the hills like yellowing teeth

When we touched down, opened my eyes to the sun

The dizzying air filled my lungs

And just as soon she woke me

My eyes blurry, my mind heavy

I left Milan I went to Rome

And carried her aroma to Verona

And all the kindness she had shown

Was only a dream

The Flurries down storm cold gray too?

The frozen nights where ignored souls live

As last rays of daylight died

I'm going into my head and clearing my eyes

And as the train pulled away from Cologne

The noise down wire so loudly that it groaned

And as the engines burned through the night

I stared off at far-away lights

I left Berlin and I came home

To sleeping potions and blue oceans

Where my love so selflessly

Awaited me

I long to feel her light so warm

My thoughts racing to the places

Where her room invited me

Awaited me

As the ocean brings in its high tide

As the darkness sets upon the beach

As we drive we look out at black ?

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Over the bridge, the city sparkles so bright

A hungry stomach smell ??

Dim light a television blaring softly

And here the perfect night as fog horns sing ?