Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Gates of the West, artist - Jesse Malin. Album song On Your Sleeve, in the genre Инди
Date of issue: 06.04.2008
Record label: Jesse Malin
Song language: English
Gates of the West |
I would love to be the lucky one on Chill Avenue |
Who could keep your heart warm when ice has turned it blue |
But beggin' sleeping losers as they turn in for the night |
I’m lookin' back for home and I can see the lights |
I should be jumpin' shoutin' that I made it all this way |
From Camden Town station on to 44th and 8th |
Not many make it this far, many say we’re great |
But just like them we walk on, we can’t escape our fate |
Can’t you hear the sighin' |
Eastside Jimmy and Southside Sue |
Both say they needed somethin' new |
So I’m standing at the Gates of the West |
I burn money at the lights of the sign |
The city casts a shadow of the perfect crime |
I’m standing at the Gates of the East |
I take my pulse and the pulse of my friend |
The city casts a shadow, will I see you again? |
The immigrants and remnants of all the glory years |
Are clustered 'round the bar again for another round of beers |
Little Richard’s in the kitchen playin' spoons and plates |
He’s tellin' the waitress he’s great |
Ah say I know somewhere back 'n' forth in time |
Out on the dust bowls, deep in the roulette mine |
Or in a ghetto cellar only yesterday |
There’s a move into the future for the USA |
I hear them cryin' |
Eastside Jimmy and Southside Sue |
Both said they needed something new |
Standing at the Gates of the West |
In the shadow again |
I’m standing at the Gates of the West |
In the shadow again |
I’m standing at the Gates of the West |
In the shadow again |
In the shadow again |