Down Endless Street

Well I read it in your letter that you'd kissed the world goodbye You were tired of being earthbound and you found it time to fly The winds would call your name while silently you'd cry Now you've spread your wings and taken to the sky All the papers told the story of your disappearing trick Your name was in the headlines and you'd made the news at six We all admire an escape act but yours was so damned slick And you left me here like just another brick Down Endless Street The rat racers take their marks Taut and twitching under the gun Competing without a finish line Forever and ever they run Down Endless Street Now the days erupt like gunfire and the nights are cold as Hell Since the morning that I read about your bittersweet farewell And they ate your story up til they found something new to sell I keep thinking that it must be just as well Down Endless Street The pawn shops of hopes and dreams Will take anything that gleams You prostitute your beliefs And believe that it's not what it seems Down Endless Street They arrest you at every block And the signs all say go But somehow you always get stopped And I'm always Chasing something Down Endless Street You're something they'll sell You're something they'll eat They'll skin you alive Down Endless Street Down Endless Street The rat racers take their marks Taut and twitching under the gun Competing without a finish line Forever and ever they run Down Endless Street Where the hopeless unite and parade And you barter your soul For a glimpse of the adult arcade The pawn shops of hopes and dreams Will take anything that gleams You prostitute your beliefs And believe that it's not what it seems Down Endless Street They arrest you at every block And they signs all say go But somehow you always get stopped Down Endless Street Down Endless Street