Brenda Kahn - The Ballad Of Ridge Street lyrics

There was a girl with velvet eyes Had a pocket full of wishes and a pocket full of lies She crossed a path with a crooked smile And just kept going for a thousand miles She walked so far she almost fell off She once fell down and she once had a cough Talked to a guy with a big radio And a man on the corner playing dominoes No one down there had fancy clothes It was a sad and lonely time Build me a house by the waterside Take me to Jordan in the summertime I won't feel lost in your arms I will be ever by your side Fate, the fickle ba*tard said You won't go alone every night to bed He sent her a lover for a pile of tears She told him all her deepest darkest fears Now all the flags in this part of town were black People sewed them into shirts and old felt hats The girl and her lover bought a sailing ship Took off their clothes and tied them to the mast Sailed away and they never came back Build me a house by the waterside Take me to Jordan in the summertime I won't feel lost in your arms Ithe people wondered by and by About the girl who'd been struck By the evil eye For she felt no shame she lived as she pleased Because love is a strange and sweet disease Build me a house by the waterside Take me to Jordan in the summertime I won't feel lost in your arms I will be ever by your side