Embarcadero Street

Embarcadero Street - Chad Elliott and The Redemptions (5:08)

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Songwriter: Chad Elliott
Publishing: BMI
Release Date: August 10, 2018

Lyrics:

Never would’ve guessed I was on the edge
Because I kept myself so clean
Shaved my beard up good and tight
Tried to wash away all the mean
Practiced in the alleyways
The ways of the better man
Some days just get ahold of you
And you have to change the plan

Don’t mistake the man you see
With the man that I used to be
I’ve faced seven hungry ghosts
Deep in the Bitterroot Valley
I sang their songs just to get inside
I did their dance for a spell
Unleashed the light I kept inside
Pushed them right back into hell

You can have your dust, you can have your flames
You can keep those sheets of the pouring rain
And you can carry that cardboard I slept upon on
Embarcadero Street

You plant the promise of a better day
But you’d let me starve in a line
You send me down to the Mission
When a decent meal is hard to find
I tossed and turned on an army cot
By the man with the crazy eyes
Until I finally had enough of that
And I moved it on down the line

You can have your dust, can have your flames
You can keep those sheets of the pouring rain
And you can carry that cardboard I slept upon on
Embarcadero Street

So the moral of this story
Has been taken with the wind
Along with the better day
I’d reunite with all my kin
I’m sure there’s something hangin’ round here
I should probably learn sometime
But I finally let that go as well
And I found my peace of mind

You can have your dust, you can have your flames
You can keep those sheets of the pouring rain
And you can carry that cardboard I slept upon on
Embarcadero Street