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Bad Streets

from Life In The Shadows by GuidoWorld

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A young man talks of the conflict between the reality of city street life and the professional therapeutic world which offers to help him. In his world of family and urban chaos he lives the brutality that comes with just trying to survive.

The hustle of the city can be quite numbing, and sometimes he feels most vital and alive when he gets in trouble or is injured. At such times the fog is lifted and he truly becomes aware of his existence.

He holds out the hope that he will find a woman willing to help him find a way out of this social quicksand. Through her, or the care of another, he hopes to gain an identify and no longer be another faceless person devoured by those Bad Streets.

lyrics

Bad Streets 12/30/79

Bad streets full of anger and sin
From those bad streets
Come many bad, bad men
The professional people sit behind a desk
Or stare at a vile
And they tell us how to cure a tortured soul
Change a sneer to a smile
There’s quick treatment, slow treatment
Statistics by the mile
That lie to you for a little while
But soon give way to the truth

It’s hard for me to think
Of the wisdom of the shrink
When mom’s at the bar and my brother’s starving
So you charged up my head
Learned well from what you said
But values seem so small when you’re pushed out a window

Bad streets make it hard to even dream of a penthouse
On those bad streets so easy to be mean
When you’re a faceless person
When I do wrong I’m alive
I feel my heart beating
When I do wrong I get hurt
Well it’s me that’s is bleeding

The fight for survival’s tough
Morals are a luxury
I’d never cheat a man if I had a choice of action
The money that they spend
To help or put us away
Would do better on those bad streets

Well hello there little girl
How about a little passion
You remind me of my ma
She takes a twenty
Oh lord, I feel
What a lovely place
Stick with me honey
We’ll climb that screwing mountain

Give me a face on those bad streets

credits

from Life In The Shadows, released October 1, 2013
Vocals Jim Guido
Back up Vocals Brad Foutch, Kent Cantwell
Female Vocals Jennifer Hollingsworth
Guitars Brad Foutch
Keys Kent Cantwell
Bass Bob Minikel
Drums Stephen Rainey

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