I had a friend was a big baseball player Back in high school He could throw that speedball by you Make you look like a fool boy Saw him the other night at this roadside bar I was walking in, he was walking out We went back inside sat down had a few drinks But…
 
Hey, little girl, is your daddy home Did he go away and leave you all alone I got a bad desire Oh, I’m on fire Tell me now baby is he good to you Can he do to you the things that I do I can take you higher Oh, I’m on fire Sometimes it’s…
 
Crazy janey and her mission man were back in the alley tradin’ hands ‘long came wild billy with his friend g-man all duded up for saturday night Well billy slammed on his coaster brakes and said: anybody wanna go on up to greasy lake It’s about a mile down on the dark side of route…
 
I was tryin’ to find my way home But all i heard was a drone Bouncing off a satellite Crushin’ the last lone american night This is radio nowhere, is there anybody alive out there? This is radio nowhere, is there anybody alive out there? I was spinnin’ ’round a dead dial Just another lost…
 
War What is it good for? absolutely nothing Say it again, war What is it good for? absolutely nothing, come on War is something that i despise For it means destruction of innocent lives And thousands words in mothers’ cry When their son’s go out to fight to give their lives War What is it…
 
In the day we sweat it out on the streets Of a runaway american dream At night we ride through mansions of glory In suicide machines Sprung from cages on highway 9 Chrome-wheeled, fuel-injected And steppin’ out over the line Oh, baby this town rips the bones from your back It’s a death trap, it’s…
 
We sit in the car outside your house you’re quiet I can feel the heat coming around I go to put my arm around you And you give me a look like i’m way out of bounds Well, you let out one of your bored sighs Well, lately when i look into your eyes I’m…
 
Bobby said he’d pull out bobby stayed in Janey had a baby it wasn’t any sin They were set to marry on a summer day Bobby got scared and he ran away Jane moved in with her ma out on shawnee lake She sighed ma sometimes my whole life feels like one big mistake She…
 
We met out on open streets when we had no place to go I remember how my heart beat when you said i love you so Then little by little we choked out all the life that our love could hold Oh no It’s like we had a noose and baby without check We pulled…
 
Hey, eddie, can you lend me a few bucks And tonight can you get us a ride Gotta make it through the tunnel Got a meeting with a man on the other side Hey eddie, this guy, he’s the real thing So if you want to come along You gotta promise you won’t say anything…
 
Can’t see nothin’ in front of me Can’t see nothin’ coming up behind I make my way through this darkness I can’t feel nothing but this chain that binds me Lost track of how far i’ve gone How far i’ve gone, how high i’ve climbed On my back’s a sixty pound stone On my shoulder…
 
The screen door slams Mary’s dress waves Like a vision, she dances across the porch as the radio plays Roy orbison singing for the lonely Hey, that’s me and i want you only Don’t turn me home again I just can’t face myself alone again Don’t run back inside Darling, you know just what i’m…
 
Tear drops on the city Bad scooter searching for his groove Seem like the whole world walking pretty And you can’t find the room to move Well everybody better move over, that’s all ’cause i’m running on the bad side And i got my back to the wall Tenth avenue freeze-out, tenth avenue freeze-out Well…
 
I was bruised and battered and I couldn’t tell what I felt I was unrecognizable to myself I saw my reflection in a window I didn’t know my own face Oh brother are you gonna leave me Wastin’ away On the streets of Philadelphia I walked the avenue till my legs felt like stone I…