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 unto me known
 Haunted me
 I flew in over the red clay roofs
 And floated through the clouds as they swelled and shook
 The bronze-tinted land and sea
 And houses rolled in 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'd woken me
 My eyes blurry, my mind heavy
 I left Milan, I went to Rome
 And carried her aroma on to Verona
 And all the kindness she had shown
 Was only a dream
 The flurries danced on cold gray tombs
 The frozen lots where ignored souls loomed
 As last rays of daylight died
 I'm blowing into my hands and clearing my eyes
 And as the train pulled away from Cologne
 The noise dimmed, once so loudly it had grown
 And as the engines burned through the night
 I stared off at far away lights
 I left Berlin and I came home
 To sleepy potions of 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 invitingly
 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 cows
 Glowing store windows in old gold rush towns
 Over the bridge, the city sparkles so bright
 Our hungry stomachs smell bread rise
 Dim light of television, bedding soft down
 And hear the perfect night as foghorns sound