Nameless Streets - Defeater

As a kid the summers seemed so long

The dusk a never ending song

Too much, too young

He’d never hear it again

A walk through the dismal streets

The alleys where the junkies sleep

Too much, too young

«Well, that will never be me»

Slow, hand in hand to the boardwalk’s end

His mother’s words like the biting wind

«Please don’t leave me»

He’ll never hear them again

«Keep quiet, stay out of sight»

Her sunken eyes that used to burn so bright

«Please don’t leave me, please don’t leave me»

So he hid pressed against the wall

Under stairs in the darkened hall

The sound of heartbreak reminded him of home

Shadows move slow across the floor

A minute seemed like a day or more

The end of heartache when she opened the door

The sights, sounds, smell of burnt out shame, pride, spite, love

They all come here to die

He sobs, «Please take me away

Please mother bring us home safe

On nameless streets the way we came»

And suddenly she prayed for better days

And for redemption

Sullenly she prayed to keep from harm’s way and for conviction

But there’s no forgiveness here

No hope beyond that pier

No way to get out now

Not for her in this dead end town

And that drunk is waiting up

Him and Jack, the empty cup

«Where you been?

What you on?

Who’d you fuck?»

One more drink to toast «good luck»

She gets a stiff hand from the old man

Like the bourbon he’s been drinking, black out

And she gets a stiff hand from the old man

Like the bourbon he’s been drinking, black out

The summers seemed so long

The dusk a never ending song

Too much, too young

He’d never sleep again

Too much, too young

«Well, that will never be me»