Song Description

Back of Town is a song of lost love whichcaptures the atmosphere at a sleazy rock'n'roll dive on the wrong side of the tracks...

Lyrics

The Back of Town.
Copyright 2003 Paul Hayes BMI

it's a mediocre place by an uninspiring steeple.
There are solid neon walls where they hypnotize the people.
There are lots of big machines and most of them are broken.
Words of love are screamed, everything is left unspoken.

And all the crucifixes are hanging upside-down.
And I'm waiting for you, darling, at The Back of Town.

The air was full of music as we swore our love together.
There were razors in our pockets, there was chromium and
leather.
We were hunted down like animals, we were everybody's
darlings.
We were dancing to a music like the sound of wolfhounds
snarling

They say you left a package at the lost and found.
They were asking for you lately at the Back of Town

And the circus clowns are psychopaths and the children there
are vampires, and the virgins are all fakes who want to wrap
you up in barbed wire.
And love is a transaction with a cripple in the darkness.
Needles are the currency, a dowry for the princess.

You can see me at the seamy places, I'll be hanging
'round.
I'll be waiting for you darling at The Back of Town.

The sky was filled with blue regret, the flowers made of lead.
You said you had to leave this place before you wound up
dead.
You scribbled down a goodbye note, you left as I lay sleeping.
The background radiation was a hundred voices weeping.

I know you had your reasons, there's a rumor going
'round...
There's a price upon your head at The Back of Town