One Way Street Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Esmeralda 

Cover art for One Way Street lyrics by Mark Lanegan

I take this to be about trying to live a better life but finding destructive habits impossible to let go of. I think the 'glorious sound of the one way street' is a reference to how easy it is to give in to temptation but how that route leads only to downfall.

This line confuses me though:

"Can't get it down without crying"

but I kind of like lines like that, which don't bother to explain too much.