Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Back on the Street, artist - Todd Rundgren. Date of issue: 26.11.2015
Song language: English
Back on the Street |
| They tell me I’ve paid back the debt I owed |
| Forty-four months since the slammer door closed |
| They give me a suit and put me back on the road |
| And my thoughts are racing |
| Where do I go? |
| What am I supposed to live on? |
| What happens when the twenty-five dollars is gone? |
| That leaves me lots of time to wonder why I was born |
| But the countdown is on Everybody’s dancing |
| The music sounds entrancing |
| But you can’t find the beat |
| It’s the ticking of a thousand human time bombs |
| Who are back on the street |
| Oh the names have been changed |
| But the story’s the same |
| History will repeat |
| Add it all up and then divide it by zero |
| 'Cause you’re back on the street |
| I can’t stand the strain of this job no more |
| I must have forgot what I took it on for |
| I make lots of money, yet still I want more |
| And my head is blazing |
| I think that I’ll check out the shops downtown |
| Sometimes it helps to buy things when I feel brought down |
| At this hour I might dodge those hippie low-life's around |
| But the countdown is on Once you had to stand out |