Lonely Street

Lonely Street - Kansas (堪薩斯)

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

I need somebody

I need somebody

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 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