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Back Street Kids Lyrics
I'm just another back street kid
Rock 'n Roll music is the only thing I really dig
Can't stop the music going round inside my head
I'm a rock 'n roll soldier, gonna play it until I'm dead
Nobody I know is gonna take my rock 'n roll away from me
Sitting in the back seat of a shiny limousine
Living in a taxi can't remember where I've been
Playing my music, sitting in my hotel room
Writing about the stars and thinking about the hand of doom
Nobody I know is gonna take my rock 'n roll away from me
Living life comes easy if you know which way you're going
Got to see yourself in other's eye's, surprised?
Living like I want to don't come easy, but I'm trying
Sorting out what's true and what are lies, it's wise
Brought up in a back street living with the salt of the land
Seems that now my music's paying off my tax demands
So listen to the music, want to see you get so high
'Cause I'm a back street rocker and I will be till the day I die
Nobody I know is gonna take my rock 'n roll away from me
Rock 'n Roll music is the only thing I really dig
Can't stop the music going round inside my head
I'm a rock 'n roll soldier, gonna play it until I'm dead
Nobody I know is gonna take my rock 'n roll away from me
Living in a taxi can't remember where I've been
Playing my music, sitting in my hotel room
Writing about the stars and thinking about the hand of doom
Nobody I know is gonna take my rock 'n roll away from me
Got to see yourself in other's eye's, surprised?
Living like I want to don't come easy, but I'm trying
Sorting out what's true and what are lies, it's wise
Seems that now my music's paying off my tax demands
So listen to the music, want to see you get so high
'Cause I'm a back street rocker and I will be till the day I die
Nobody I know is gonna take my rock 'n roll away from me
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I've never actually heard this song, but did anyone else notice the part where he says "...thinking about the hand of doom..."? I know this could obviously be considered a reference to impending death, etc. but "Hand of Doom" is also a Black Sabbath song about excessive heroin use. Could this be a reference by Ozzy to his own drug use?
@lduke88 yes, I believe you're correct that it is a reference to the singer's drug use. The phrase "hands of doom" comes up in another Black Sabbath song, Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath, in addition to "Hand of Doom' and "Back Street Kids."
@lduke88 yes, I believe you're correct that it is a reference to the singer's drug use. The phrase "hands of doom" comes up in another Black Sabbath song, Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath, in addition to "Hand of Doom' and "Back Street Kids."
Absolutely, duke! Also check out Sabbath Bloody Sabbath for another Hand of Doom reference, they are all over the place. Definitely a drug reference everytime it comes up.
i love this song it realy lets you know how much you should love rock and roll
This song describes me so much. I can remember living in a little house with a big yard when I was in 3rd grade. I had just discovered Guns n Roses (this was 1987) and I got several cassingles and an off brand Walkman. Now if they\'d just bought me a motorcycle jacket, I would\'ve been a complete person! I would walk around the big backyard and listen to those tapes for hours. Axl Rose was maybe my first glimpse of the world outside of school and my parents\' house. I would see those guys with long hair driving Trans Ams in local parking lots and I knew that\'s what I wanted to grow up to be. I\'m 42 now and I\'m still the same. Those days in the yard listening to music were forging my real personality. So this song describes just that sort of experience. I\'m eternally grateful that this is my life and I wouldn\'t change it for anything.
This song has always sounded like Led Zeppelin to me.