All my friends would go to movies on Friday nights
They'd be drinking beer and acting like clowns
But I would go to see a lady
On the other side of town
She lived just a block away from Blue Street
Near the cemetery grounds
In a two-story house by the river
On the other side of town
And the lady on the other side of town
Never tried to make me cry or put me down
And today I wish lady could be found
On the other side of town
She was 34 and I was 19
It was a social oddity
But nobody knew, save the cat and the wind
That an older woman loved me
We´d play Joni Mitchell records for hours
Smoking cigarettes and watching TV
On a mattress on the floor by the window
Where she made love to me
And the lady on the other side of town
Never tried to make me cry or put me down
And today I wish the lady could be found
On the other side of town
"I'll make you some tea,"
The lady would say
"If you will play piano for me"
And the lady missed her husband
She talked of her divorce all the time
Oh, she missed her lover
And I was missing mine
'Cause my lover was an actress
She made me promises and let me down
So I had to find my love from a lady
On the other side of town
And the lady on the other side of town
Never tried to make me cry or put me down
And today I wish the lady could be found
On the other side of town
The cold icy beam of the moonlight
Cast its shadows on our bodies that danced
And I noticed that the lady had fallen asleep
So I slipped on my pants
And I wrote her a note on the table
Then I put the pencil down
It said that I was gonna leave the lady
On the other side of town
And the lady on the other side of town
Never tried to make me cry or put me down
And today I wish the lady could be found
On the other side of town
As I closed the gate behind me
The tears welled up in her eyes
With the note in her hand at the window
She was sadly waving goodbye
Well I never knew how much that I loved her
And the thought never did occur
That someday I'd be somewhere far away
And still be thinking of her
And still be thinking of her, her
And the lady on the other side of town
Never tried to make me cry or put me down
And today I wish the lady could be found
On the other side
On the other side
On the other side of town
