Backstreets

One soft infested summer me and terry became friends

Trying in vain to breathe the fire we was born in

Catching rides to the outskirts tying faith between our

teeth

Sleeping in that old abandoned beach house getting

wasted in the heat

And hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the

backstreets

With a love so hard and filled with defeat

Running for our lives at night on them backstreets

Slow dancing in the dark on the beach at stocktons wing

Where desperate lovers park we sat with the last of the

duke street kings

Huddled in our cars waiting for the bells that ring

In the deep heart of the night to set us loose from

everything

To go running on the backstreets, running on the

backstreets

We swore wed live forever on the backstreets we take it

together

Endless juke joints and valentino drag where dancers

scraped the tears

Up off the street dressed down in rags running into the

darkness

Some hurt bad some really dying at night sometimes it

seemed

You could hear the whole damn city crying blame it on

the lies that killed us

Blame it on the truth that ran us down you can blame it

all on me terry

It dont matter to me now when the breakdown hit at

midnight

There was nothing left to say but I hated him and I

hated you when you went

Away

Laying here in the dark youre like an angel on my chest

Just another tramp of hearts crying tears of

faithlessness

Remember all the movies, terry, wed go see

Trying to learn how to walk like heroes we thought we

had to be

And after all this time to find were just like all the

rest

Stranded in the park and forced to confess

To hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets

We swore forever friends on the backstreets until the

end

Hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets