Kansas - Lonely Street Lyrics
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 streetAnd the smell of perfumed ladies filled the airThis 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 sayGambling is bad luck down on Lonely StreetAnd it sure ain't no place to be when a man gets soreYou 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 floorSometimes when I'm walking down this lonely streetI get caught up in a dream that won't let me goAnd as the bright lights flash up and down this lonely streetMy mind rolls back the years long time agoI see my baby stumblin' around with tears in her eyesAnd as I reach out for her she falls on the floorShe mumbles through bloody lips about a bad man, robber, raper,And in my gut I know I got one to scoreThe word was comin' down, down on Lonely StreetThat the bad man was a dead man if he crossed my trailEvery night I'd walk up and down this Lonely StreetI get stinkin' drunk, and always in jail,One night they threw me in with a man they called the manglerHe was caught on the street makin' some old whore,I remember he was quite proud of that,So half-crazed I shot him,And I cried in the blood on that jailhouse floor
