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Streets
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Written: 1987 Recorded: June 26, 2000 Mastered: July, 2006 Originally appeared on: Shades of Grey (1987)
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Conceived and reared in New York, domesticated in Southern California. Physician, musician, husband, father and generalized procrastinator, not necessarily in t
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Acoustic • Acoustic General
Charts
Peak #1,094
Peak in subgenre #290
Author
Michael Novick
Uploaded
August 05, 2006
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MP3 2.3 MB • 128 kbps • 2:32
Story behind the song
That’s genuine 3rd Avenue traffic you’re hearing in the background. It’s audible on many of these recordings, but it’s intentional here. Streets was originally named after a girl I knew in high school, but I decided it wasn’t really about her and dropped the parentheses. I do that sometimes. I used to name a lot of songs for girls. Often I was too generous, occasionally, too mean.
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out on lexington avenue near carnival street where everyone tries just to make ends meet all the people will watch you as you walk by with artificial tears in their eyes and they look at the money in your hand but they just don't understand that you feel like your heart's gonna break and you'd stop but you're running late don't ask where i'm from 'cause i don't know where just be careful on these streets 'cause you've gotta beware it's a long time coming and it's too far gone you could walk these streets alone and we lived in a perfect place and without a moment's grace i kissed you every morning and night and you smiled as i held you tight now the moon is rising like a pearl i wonder how many boys and how many girls are standing together like you and me though we look to the light of a different sea and i wonder where you are are you near or are you far do you see the stars in the sky? so the next time you're in the velvet box just think of me when the broken heart knocks and i'll run to you with the hands of time together we'll leave the world behind...
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