look at all the tables standing still the smoke has settled from the air everyone was laughing finding romance now there s only empty chairs people used to dance here after hours wrapped around each other in a song every now and then so very long ago doesn t really seem so long driving up at midnight ladies dressed in fur when i see the quiet street i always think of her not the way she is now but the way that she was then sometimes you can t go back again driving up at midnight ladies dressed in fur when i drive these rainy streets i always think of her not the way she is now but the way that she was then sometimes you can t go back again