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?