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bitter street - dave steel lyrics

the managers are friendly, their bark worse than their bite
they sit down with the truckies for a beer on friday night
children wander ’round the streets and frighten off the cats
and broken bottles lie around the stinkin’ laundromats
i was taken with a barmaid, i paid my court in style
i’m never goin’ there again nor can i raise a smile
when you talk about the romance of badly cut white heat
i can smell the breath of cheapness, i’m never goin’ back to bitter street

i remеmber how the smoke would hang across thе afternoons
talked myself into believin’ it was all due to the moon
all the chemical frustrations, the mixtures and the shots
the blackest clothes and vinyl and the smell of tropic rot
i was following the football, wastin’ money on the trots
i was taki’n everything that came my way without a thought
and with broken down digestion, and swollen stinkin’ feet
i walk without a backward glance as far as i can get from bitter street

i had friends but never money, then money and no friends
i was visiting a doctor and a priest to make amends
she looked after me on sundays and missed me through the week
we went walking blind and helpless down these erratic streets
she was married to a singer and had men all over town
she had bills and pills and purposes i could not get around
the patience of an angel, and tiny chinese feet
she begged me not to leave her but i’m never goin’ back to bitter street
now my poetry is twisted, my hands are full of dust
i thought i had the master plan i thought i had it sussed
i thought roses and old wisdom would light up the place like flame
but it is a place of loathing it will always be the same
the old men come to rest there, watch the young construct their fate
forever bein’ nowhere early, and gettin’ home too late
i was caught without a ticket tryin’ to appear discrete
i was tried by scarecrow julie, they sentenced me to life on bitter street

and though your beauty and your courage
they set my head aflame
the terror that is in me has a place it has a name
you can threaten me with arctic winds
savage snow and sleet
you can bring me wine and roses but you’ll never get me back to
bitter street

no you’ll never get me back to bitter street…

- dave steel lyrics

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