Tomorrow's Clown

words & music: Robert Allen
Publisher: Sha-La Music BMI

They’re all dancing in the street
And everyone I meet’s bout the same
Someone called the heat down you could
Hear those shufflin’ feet clear on Main

I ditched myself down an alley
Inside a broken van
I saw you hiding from the rain

We talked until tomorrow while we
Laughed away our sorrows to ease the pain
And when I reached out to kiss her
She sprang running through the mist and the rain

And I cried out for a promise of love
Not just another one night stand
As my emptiness echoed around
Yesterday’s fool was tomorrow’s clown

I walked down every street for weeks
I tried to see if I could find that girl
And then one night by chance while walking from a dance
In some forgotten alley like some forbidden valley I had found

I had found that one so dear
Running from that alley so far yet so near
And as I tried to follow three gunshots hard and hollow
Raised her to the sky then crashed her pretty face to the ground

Well they called her “Midnite Matty”
And I wondered why had she run
Cause she knifed five men in four weeks
After she had made love with each one

And I cried out for a promise of love
Not just another one night stand
As my emptiness echoed around
Yesterday’s fool was tomorrow’s clown