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I like the street / I like the street
The hustle and the bustle and the people that I meet
The grifters and the star-struck, The poets and the drunks
The PhDs and jailbirds, The models and the punks,
The barkers and the preachers and the friends that I hold dear
Some will bring you aggravation, some will bring you cheer (beep beep)…”
I like the street / I like the street
Dancing on the asphalt as it rises to my feet
Cabs burst through the steaming grills as fists shake at the sky
Some people are happy while some look like they wanna die
Some people know many tongues, some people they always lie
Now I know why Jesus went up on the hill to cry
Some like open forests, there's room enough to roam
But I like the urban think of it, well, makes me feel at home
People race to knock you down, others stop and yield
Many faces in this town, in this mission field
Some have found the big expression at the bridge where the vagrants sleep
Now I know why Jesus went up on the hill to weep
Some people trying to find the alabaster
Some people trying to make the world go faster
Babylon skyscraper scraping up the sky
I don't know why I don't know why...
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Copyright 1969 UMG / Sony ATV Music BMI. Licensed and used by permission.
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copyright 2011 Word2Soul Music BMI)
(Chorus):
If I could dress like Clive Owen
I'd always look like I know what I'm doing
If I could dress like Clive Owen
People would think I always know where I'm going
See him there on a magazine
See his face on the silver screen
If he looks dour, moving in stealth
He's wearing clothes like it's good for your health
Romance comes, romance goes
But that shouldn't stop you from wearing good clothes
I'll tell you straight, ain't no scam
It's the truth that clothes make the man
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If I could dress like Clive Owen
I'd always look like I know what I'm doing
If I could dress like Clive Owen
People would think I always know where I'm going
You tell a story by the way you dress
Don't leave home lookin' like a mess
No bad thing being a fashion plate
Tailored pants, cuffs so straight
Shirt is pressed, day and night
If you're workin' out man that's allright
Leather shoes, made to last
For walkin' tall and thinkin' fast
(Chorus):
If I could dress like Clive Owen
I'd always look like I know what I'm doing
If I could dress like Clive Owen
People would think I always know where I'm going
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Spying in Barcelona
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Big Town Winding Down
03:26
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BIG TOWN WINDING DOWN
Big town winding down
Big town winding down
Fascinating rhythm, sight and sound
Big town winding down
In a dream he trudged
a once bleak landscape
of grimy, brittle monoliths
burnt toast buildings scraped against vacant skies
Then he turned a hardboiled corner,
to discover you don’t have to believe those lies
With each step, the monoliths lost their abstraction
And their oppression
Welcoming him in warm waves of urban love
In a big town winding down
Darkness gave way to splashes and streaks of sepia, blue, purple and yellow
Like unraveling creatures from an Escher,
City streets opened, flattened, shining machines rolled up
Lights, voices, and noises sculpted the air
Skyscrapers showed their genders and whispered stories
With each energized step he saw, heard, smelled and touched people rushing past—faces in joy, in awe, in laughter, in commerce, and in melancholy
In a city that never slept, he felt rest
He felt the big town winding down
The intemperate blur of metropolis became his set,
The Asphalt Ballet
starring warm flesh and blood
made in the image of God
He woke from that dream all alone but feeling like someone had been watching him, waiting for the right time to give him a gift
Grace tumbling out of the skies
Wiping every tear from your eyes
Grace rising out of the ground
In every sight and sound
In a big town winding down
copyright 2011 Johnny J. Blair Word2Soul Music BMI
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Love That's Here to Stay
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Johnny J Blair "Singer at Large" San Francisco, California
"Johnny is a virtuoso"--Brian Wilson
"Pop music with a conscience.”--Goldmine
“the Harry Houdini of rock and roll.”--
Spotlight. Listen to Johnny's fast-paced mix of old school soul, psychedelia, punk/new wave, & classic pop/rock. Singer-songwriter in his own right, he was also a sideman for Davy Jones and The Monkees + performed with David Cassidy, Al Stewart, Buddy & Julie Miller, & others.
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