To Chicago -

I’ll love you, baby, till the parking ticket runs out

Till the lights in the street are as bright as the stars

And you can’t work out which way is round

When you button my shirt and fasten my tie

I can run round the earth till the well runs dry

I will never get the feeling like the look in your eye

That’s all

Hey now, if you ever go

Leave me a trail to Chicago

Show you my colours like a second day bruise

And I glow like a coin under a dead dog moon

Anytime that I’m alone with you

My blood is wicked and my heart and wild

But I come to you every time like a child

Won’t you take my hand just one more time?

That’s all

Hey now, if you ever go

Leave me a trail to Chicago

So much talk it’s lost under the weight of my heels

And the days stretch out over the seeds and the steel

And weak like you put me up there on the cross

And I spit white foam for your name

Come wrap me up in a blanket of dirt

And return my body, bite down in the earth

I have worn every needle on the same record

Tell my friend not to fall behind

Tell the man in the street who waits in line

To get that love you gotta give it your time

That’s all

Hey now, if you ever go

Leave me a trail to Chicago

Hey now, if you ever go

Leave me a trail to Chicago