Kids In The Street.
Justin Townes Earle.
Album: Kids In The Street.
Intro: D Gmaj7 D A6 D F#m7 Gmaj7 A6
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My best friend lived in this house,
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And we played ball in the street after school,
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God knows how he's living now,
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I head his Mom lost the house and had to move,
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And sure, it's looking better these days,
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Well it's hard to believe,
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And this ain't the way it was back in 1993.
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And those weren't better days,
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But they still meant something mean,
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When we was kids out in the streets.
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Now there was a market on the corner,
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It was next to the car wash, mmm,
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And lazy weeping willow across the street in the light,
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Where the old men played dominoes on those hot summer days,
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Sweating the Wild Irish Rose, out in the shade,
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And from Wedgewood to Granny White, oh, and, Belmont to 8th,
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All these songs was broke into a host of sights and shapes.
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And that was lower-end living,
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Back when life was cheap,
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When we was kids out in the streets.
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Now it's gone, blown on a lonely wind of change,
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Now I feel like I miss it most,
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Just 'cause I never thought that it could change,
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So I hear things are moving west these days,
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Same old cut and pasting, just filling the blanks,
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Standing here right now, though it brings a lot of pain,
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I smile when I think, yesterday.
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Back when life was something,
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Like 1, 2, 3,
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When we was kids out in the streets.
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