ATF: Baker and Main

This weekly series will include as many of my all-time favorite tunes as I can get my grubby little hands on (so to speak).  Now, each one included in each edition will have some connection with the other—albeit only as a figment of my imagination, but they will not be numbered.  For I just cannot bring myself to rate some higher than others.  So, this will not be a countdown, but if you are enjoying them as much as I do, it won’t matter.  Besides, with no countdown, this could go on forever and ever!  Oh, and despite the fact that there is absolutely no way that your musical tastes can be as exquisite as mine, I welcome any suggestions that you might dare to make.  I am, after all, quite magnanimous by nature.

Link: [Gerry Rafferty]

Baker Street

Gerry Rafferty

Windin’ your way down on Baker Street

Light in your head and dead on your feet

Well another crazy day

You'll drink the night away

And forget about everything

This city desert makes you feel so cold

It's got so many people

But it's

Got no soul

And it's taken you so long

To find out you were wrong

When you thought it held everything

You used to think that it was so easy

You used to say that it was so easy

But you're tryin'

You're tryin' now

Another year and then you'd be happy

Just one more year and then you'd be happy

But you're cryin'

You're cryin' now

Way down the street there's a light in his place

He opens the door

He's got that look on his face

And he asks you

Where have you been

You tell him who you've seen

And you talk about anything

He's got this dream about buyin' some land

He's gonna

Bive up the booze and the one night stands

And then he'll settle down

In some quiet little town

And forget about everything

But you know he'll always keep movin'

You know he's never gonna stop movin'

Cause he's rollin'

He's the rollin' stone

And when you wake up it's a new mornin’

The sun is shining

It's a new morning

But you're goin’

You're goin’ home

Link: [Bob Seger]

Main Street

Bob Seger

I remember standin’ on the corner at midnight

Tryin’ to get my courage up

There was this long lovely dancer in a little club downtown

I loved to watch her do her stuff

Through the long lonely nights

She filled my sleep

Her body softly swayin’

To that smoky beat

Down on Main Street

Down on Main Street

In the pool halls

The hustlers

And the losers

I used to watch 'em through the glass

Well I'd stand outside at closin’ time

Just to watch her walk on past

Unlike all the other ladies

She looked so young and sweet

As she made her way alone

Down that empty street

Down on Main Street

Down on Main Street

And sometimes even now

When I'm feelin’ lonely and beat

I drift back in time

And I find my feet

Down on Main Street

Down on Main Street

Down on Main Street

Down on Main Street

Down on Main Street

Down on Main Street

Lyrics From: [A-Z Lyrics Universe]

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