Lonely Street-Kansas

[ti:Lonely Street] [ar:Kansas] [al:The Essential Kansas 3.0] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Lonely Street (寂寞大街) - Kansas (堪萨斯) [00:14.49]Sometimes when I'm walking down this lonely street [00:19.42] [00:21.36]Well it sure don't seem like twenty years [00:27.99] [00:28.93]Since I went walking down this lonely street [00:36.12]And the smell of perfumed ladies filled the air [00:44.55]This street ain't got no name dead end is in the river [00:50.55]And I lived where I hated life day by day [00:55.93] [00:57.37]There wasn't nothing I could do to shake a cold night shiver [01:04.37]Cause to move up Lonely Street you had to have some say [01:09.24] [01:11.56]Gambling is bad luck down on Lonely Street [01:19.12]And it sure ain't no place to be when a man gets sore [01:24.24]You know I killed a man and I paid all I can [01:29.81]With twenty years on a chain gang [01:33.49]For the flesh and the blood on that jailhouse floor [01:38.50] [01:40.43]Sometimes when I'm walking down this lonely street [01:47.18]I get caught up in a dream that won't let me go [01:51.87] [01:54.12]And as the bright lights flash up and down this lonely street [01:59.43] [02:01.12]My mind rolls back the years long time ago [02:05.18] [02:08.43]I see my baby stumblin' around with tears in her eyes [02:14.25] [02:16.00]And as I reach out for her she falls on the floor [02:20.56] [02:23.62]She mumbles through bloody lips about a bad man robber raper [02:29.12] [02:30.37]And in my gut I know I got one to score [02:34.87] [02:44.19]The word was comin' down down on Lonely Street [03:43.88]That the bad man was a dead man if he crossed my trail [03:50.88]Every night I'd walk up and down this Lonely Street [04:03.32]I get stinkin' drunk and always in jail [04:06.63]One night they threw me in with a man they called the mangler [04:27.95]He was caught on the street makin' some old whore [04:32.01]I remember he was quite proud of that [04:36.51]So half-crazed I shot him [04:38.57]And I cried in the blood on that jailhouse floor