The moon hangs high
like an axe in the sky
sunset smears it with blood
the Buicks and Oldsmobiles
and Hondas and Datsuns
like cows in a field
of concrete and mud
the windows of the buildings
like sleepy eyed men
in the calm after a fight
it's twilight in Venice
in the U S of A
and I'm wondering
where you are tonight

oh I'm wondering
where you are tonight
oh I'm wondering
hope everything's all right

the roofing tar smell
still hangs overhead
thick like
black marmalade
and smoke
or like this feeling that I got
that somehow something
inside of me got broke

maybe your asleep
in someone's bed
like you did some nights
when you were drinking
or are you sitting up like me
wondering how your gonna live
in this world
that keeps shrinking

oh I'm wondering
where you are tonight
oh I'm wondering
if everything's alright
oh I'm alone I'm alone here
in this whorehouse by the sea
I'm alone I'm alone here
and I need you here with me

© 1999 Zen of Iniquity Publishing/
Jalapeno Cornbread (BMI)