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Street Joy Lyrics
I don't mind the sound
Of a voice
Of your voice
When you use it like your gun
So much fun
Fire your gun
Casual as you are, gets hard to say
I won't say
'less you're going away
He street himself on up to your front door
You've been a world of ideas about the rich and the poor
With his car horn talk, he'll make your focus break
When you're left to yourself, you're going anyway
I don't differentiate
We from they
We from they
Fill my appetite
Wild light
Sleepless night
Lean my head against an angry moon
Always room
Angry moon
In and out of a metal chair
In an unloved apartment where
I can build myself up before I make the scare
Street myself up onto your front door
Street joy
You adore
Of a voice
Of your voice
When you use it like your gun
So much fun
Fire your gun
I won't say
'less you're going away
You've been a world of ideas about the rich and the poor
With his car horn talk, he'll make your focus break
When you're left to yourself, you're going anyway
We from they
We from they
Fill my appetite
Wild light
Sleepless night
Lean my head against an angry moon
Always room
Angry moon
In an unloved apartment where
I can build myself up before I make the scare
Street myself up onto your front door
You adore
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I've been listening to this song for some time and there's a few lyrical mishaps in your interpretation. You did a great job with the lyrics except for like 3 parts. In the begining he says: "Of A Voice. Of Your Voice." The first line of the chorus is: "He's Stringing..." The last line of the chorus is: " When you're left to yourself, you're going anyway."
Thanks for the corrections. Since the band doesn't publish the lyrics, it's up to us! :)
Thanks for the corrections. Since the band doesn't publish the lyrics, it's up to us! :)
Great work on this. It took me forever to figure out he was saying "With his car horn talk...," what a bizarre and wonderful metaphor.
After listening to a handful of live versions of this, I would recommend the following corrections:
First chorus: "He's stringing himself up..." --> "He street himself up...." First chorus: "You been a wall of ideas..." --> "You been a world of ideas...." First chorus: "With his car horn talk, you make..." -> "With his car horn talk, he'll make..."
Second verse: "Feel my appetite..." --> "(I) fill my appetite..."
Second chorus: "I can build myself up before I make the scare..." --> "I can build myself up before I make the scale..." (as in, scaling a mountain) Second chorus: "String myself up..." --> "Street myself up...."
The lyrics here hit the studio version on the head. Live, James Petralli likes to add little phrases here and there, especially in slow-jam versions where they're really groovin'. As an example: the album version sounds like "Always room, angry moon...," but live he'll sing: "Cuz there's always room, on an angry moon..."
Thanks for the corrections!
Thanks for the corrections!