Got a room about 20 feet wide
   There’s a blue light bulb
   hanging from the sky
   Threw a mattress on the floor where we can hide
  
   Hold my hand to the subway door
   I can make us invisible
   All the way to Chinatown
  
   Steam is rising from the street below
   Neon sign like a carnival
   You bring the color to a grey rainbow
  
   My guitar and a bottle of the red
   So much pain that I want to forget
   On our way to Chinatown
  
   Take you over to my side of town
   Show you how the real world gets down
   Trouble I thought I could hold you down
   All the way to Chinatown
  
   Sheets of rain banging on the window
   Turning into a blanket of snow
   Getting good of pulling over the wool
  
   Miles away there’s another world
   I know I am the luckiest girl
   Found my heart in Chinatown
  
   Take you over to my side of town
   Show you how the real world gets down
   Trouble I thought I could hold you down
   All the way to Chinatown