Backstreets Lyrics

Maria Mckee 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 Stockton's
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 they set us loose of
everything
To go running on the backstreets
Running on the backstreets
Terry, you swore we'd live forever
Taking it on them backstreets together

Endless juke joints and Valentino drag
Where famous 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 don't matter to
me now
When the breakdown hit at midnight, there was nothing
to say
But I hated him, and I hated you when you went away

Laying here in the dark, you're like an angel on my
chest
Just another tramp of hearts crying tears of
faithlessness
Remember all the movies, Terry, we'd go see
Trying to learn to walk like the heroes we thought we
had to be
And after all this time, to find we're just like all
the rest
Stranded in the park and forced to confess
To hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets
Where we swore forever friends
On the backstreets until the end

Hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets