Live 01 Jan 1979 version
Oh, oh
Little girl
La da da da
Come back baby, come back
Come back little girl, my arms they cry for you
Come back baby, come back
'Cause I dragged my heart and dry, sweet
The teardrops on
And I hear your steps, running round, running down, running round down for
And I promise I will never, never make you blue
Baby I don't know why you little girl cry
And I will never, never make you blue
And I will never make you cry, girl
Just come back, go right back in a couple hours, go right back there in a few hours
We'll go right back in a few hours
We'll go right back there in a few hours
And we'll go right down on the baskets
You and I, I, I, I
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, da!
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 that set us loose from everything
To go running on the backstreets, running on the backstreets
We swore we'd live forever
On the backstreets we'd take it together
Endless juke joints and Valentino drag
Where 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 that whole damn city crying
Blame it on the lies that killed us, on the truth that ran us down
Blame it all on me, it don't matter to me now
When the breakdown hit at midnight there was nothing left to say
I hated him and I hated you when you went away
Whoah
Now 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 how to walk like the heroes we thought we had to be
Well 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
We swore forever friends
On the backstreets until the end
Till the end
Just me and you baby
Just me and you, girl
Girl
Hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets
Hiding on the backstreets, hiding on the backstreets
It's alright
We'll go hiding on the backstreets tonight
Backstreets, on the backstreets
On the backstreets, on the backstreets
The backstreets, on the backstreets
Whoah, whoah whoah, whoah, oh, oh, oh
The above lyrics are for the live 01 Jan 1979 performance of THUNDER ROAD at Richfield Coliseum in Richfield, OH, during the Darkness On The Edge OF Town Tour.
This was the last date of the tour.
Thanks Jake (ol'catfishinthelake at BTX and Greasy Lake) for the lyrics help.
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