Street Quotes

— You carry that stink of the streets.
— I like the stink. It makes me feel good. I like the smell of it. It opens up my lungs. And it gives me a hard-on.

I grew up on the street. No, not the hood, the Sesame Street.

I walked the avenue 'til my legs felt like stone,
I heard the voices of friends vanished and gone,
At night I could hear the blood in my veins,
Black and whispering as the rain
On the streets of Philadelphia

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Bruce Springsteen

Streets of Philadelphia

The night has fallen, I'm lyin' awake,
I can feel myself fading away,
So receive me, brother, with your faithless kiss,
Or will we leave each other alone like this
On the streets of Philadelphia?

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Bruce Springsteen

Streets of Philadelphia

Quotes About Myself

Outside it's now raining
And tears are falling from my eyes.
Why did have to happen?
Why did it all have to end?

In his experience most places reserved the main drag for profit-and-loss businesses. Municipal enterprises like cops and county offices would be a block or two over. Maybe more.

Nobody knows where you’re going
nobody cares where you’ve been.
'Cause you belong to the city
you belong to the night
Living in a river of darkness beneath the neon light.
You were born in the city
concrete under your feet
It’s in your moves
it’s in your blood:
You’re a man of the streets.

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Glenn Frey

You Belong To The City

City

Darkness

Night

I was bruised and battered, I couldn't tell what I felt,
I was unrecognizable to myself,
I saw my reflection in a window,
I didn't know my own face,
Oh brother, are you gonna leave me wastin' away
On the streets of Philadelphia?

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Bruce Springsteen

Streets of Philadelphia

Street Quotes

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