I am the public highway, baby I'm no place for pretence or protocol I could take you By way of a garden city I could run you along The libido del sol I am this street now I am the street where you live See me from your window And be a fugitive Back of beyond the horizon I cut and stretch The outer space of open air If there's somewhere You just have to be, babe Oh let me be your thoroughfare I am this street now I am the street where you live See me from your window And be a fugitive There is a pale swamp A glacier Waxy crystal car And the smell of wood smoke
Is on the evening breeze And your engine's humming Like a pleasure boat In the distance of the heat Tearing the blossom off the trees We pa** by pere lachaise And broken fences We pa** hospitals In the san fernando valley And all of my tricks And turns and inclinations You can't find them in your rand mcnally Live now - live a thousand other lives Live now - and learn the secret names of time Live now - all at once and forever Live now - and you'll be all mine I am this street now I am the street where you live See me from your window And be a fugitive