Shadow Of Love lyrics

goin` down some river in my dreams
I`m a thousand miles from moline
fire still burnin` in my brain
daylight breakin` on the pontchartrain
there`s a dark wind blowin` over my head
kickin` up memories better left dead
better left dead, gone for good
outta my head, if I could

but it`s cajun eyes, raven hair
how they follow me everywhere
the image remains but it`s never enough
my fingers pass right through that shadow of love

oh river, black and wide
I think I`ll take a midnight ride on you
this don`t look like no illinois sky
and I hear somethin` circlin` high above
must be my shadow of love

I met her one night in a backwater town
her eyes were workin` that room around
I knew she was lookin` to get outta there
said she`d follow me anywhere
well I got two clocks that rule my day
one wakes me up, one sets my pay
but every night I see that face
I wind up headin` down the natchez trace

cause it`s cajun eyes, raven hair
how they follow me everywhere
time goes by, but never enough
I close my eyes and I see that shadow of love (CHORUS)

there`s a dark wind blowin` over my head
kickin` up memories better left dead
gonna jump that city of new orleans
get drunk with the dutchman, ask him what it all means