If I had met you on some journey 
Where would we be now 
If we had met some eastbound train 
Through some black sleeping town 
 
Would you have worn your silken robes 
All made of royal blue? 
Would I have dressed in smoke and fire 
For you to see through? 
 
If we had met in a darkened room 
Where people do not stay 
But shadows touch and pass right through 
And never see the day 
 
Would you have taken me upstairs 
And turned the lamplight low? 
Would I have shown my secret self 
And disappeared like the snow? 
 
Oh, I could have played your little girl 
Or I could have played your wife 
I could have played your mistress 
Running danger down through you life 
 
I could have played your lady fair 
All dressed in lace like the foam from the sea 
I could have been your woman of the road 
As long as you did not come back home to me 
 
But as it is, we live in the city 
And everything stays in place 
Instead we meet on the open sidewalk 
And it's well I know your face 
 
We talk and talk, we tell the truth 
There are no shadows here 
But when I look into your eyes 
I wonder what might have been here 
 
Because if I had met you on some journey 
Where would we be now?