R. Dean Taylor - Back Street lyrics

Aww, we were so much in love She was all I thought of But she met someone who said, 'I love you, hon' It was too late He left her to cradle The shame and the blame A child with no name No name! In the spring we were gonna be married (gonna be married!) She was my world everything in my life But she ran and hid from the wrong that she'd done In a dark back street slum Back street! Her own folks disowned her Back street! Her friends all scorned her Back street! Back street girl! Lying scared and alone Back street! she met all the wrong kind Back street! the ghettos poisoned her young mind. Eighteen years old In the room dark and cold She sings lullabies As a small baby cries Scorned and alone She missed her friends and her mom and her dad The good home she had (The good home she had!) She had to fight to survive (fight to survive!) Give up her pride to keep her baby alive So she sold her love to those who would call Up the stairs down the hall Back street! She felt the good in her dying Back street! She grew bitter from crying Back street! Back street girl! Lying scared and alone Back street! Yeah and what it did to her (?) Back street! She lived like a rat in a sewer A knock in the night no one in sight There at my feet in the snow cold and deep cried Her small baby son Tear-stained the note that she left on my door 'Love, please make him yours.' Somewhere she walks the night wrapped in dreams now never to be Yesterday we held the world in our hands world apart now we stand Back street! it was dawn when they found her Back street! I placed some flowers around her Back street! Back street girl! I never felt so alone Back street! As I stand here above her Back street! I know deep inside I still love her Oh I think of those good times (Back street livin aint easy!) When we laughed in the sunshine (Back street livin aint easy!) All those plans that we made then (Back street livin aint easy!) Life was so good then... (Back street livin aint easy!) She will forever be deep in the heart and the soul of me Back street! If I'd only forgave her Back street! My love could have saved her Back street! Back street girl! She was scared and alone So hard living on the backstreet! Back street livin aint easy! Back street girl! Ooh! (background singers denoted by!)