well my eyelids said four thirty and the radio clock said six and i was thinking up a reasonable excuse i might have slept til yesterday but in the shape i m in what s twenty four hours more or less to lose chorus i ve burned up letters and i ve burned up souvenirs and left no traces lord that i was ever here and i won t be louisiana lowdown and blue yeah the phone rings after breakfast i swallow hard when i hear guess who and i say i don t know and the caller hangs up i think i need a shower but i really want a beer and i remember this dream i had and i laugh to myself chorus bridge i saw a stranger smiling at me yesterday and it scared me almost half to death i wanted to hide i wanted to run away from her instead i closed my eyes and she wasn t there oh i was somewhere in the french quarter in the winter of last year down in the square dripped chili on myself when i headed home i heard the sounds of heaven in my ears turned and saw a woman singin about jesus