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KANSAS lyrics : "Lonely Street"

(Steve Walsh / Dave Hope / Richard Williams / Phil Ehart)
Sometimes when I'm walking down this lonely street,
Well, it sure don't seem like twenty years,

Since I went walking down this lonely street
And the smell of perfumed ladies filled the air


This street ain't got no name, dead end is in the river,
And I lived where I hated life day by day,
There wasn't nothing I could do to shake a cold night shiver,

'Cause to move up Lonely Street you had to have some say

Gambling is bad luck down on Lonely Street

And it sure ain't no place to be when a man gets sore
You know I killed a man and I paid all I can,
With twenty years on a chain gang,

For the flesh and the blood on that jailhouse floor

Sometimes when I'm walking down this lonely street

I get caught up in a dream that won't let me go
And as the bright lights flash up and down this lonely street
My mind rolls back the years long time ago


I see my baby stumblin' around with tears in her eyes
And as I reach out for her she falls on the floor

She mumbles through bloody lips about a bad man, robber,
raper,
And in my gut I know I got one to score


The word was comin' down, down on Lonely Street
That the bad man was a dead man if he crossed my trail

Every night I'd walk up and down this Lonely Street
I get stinkin' drunk, and always in jail,
One night they threw me in with a man they called the mangler

He was caught on the street makin' some old !@^%,
I remember he was quite proud of that,
So half-crazed I shot him,

And I cried in the blood on that jailhouse floor.

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