Lyrics to
Back On The Streets

This version of Back On The Streets was released by Gary Moore in 1978.

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Listen to me woman,
I just think it’s a sin.
I know you hear me knockin’,
But you won’t let me in.
Might be fine for you
Just to keep me hangin’ round.
But if you don’t open up this door,
I’m gonna kick it down.

Sometimes I feel like
I’m back on the streets again.
Sometimes I feel like
There’s nowhere to go.
Sometimes I feel like
I’m back on the streets again.

Listen , you’ve been telling me to short
For much too long.
But now I’m gonna put you back
Where you belong.
Might be fine for you
Just to keep me hangin’ round.
But if you don’t open up this door,
I’m gonna kick it down.

Sometimes I feel like
I’m back on the streets again.
Sometimes I feel like
There’s nowhere to go.
Sometimes I feel like
I’m back on the streets again.
Sometimes it’s the only place that I know.
That I know.

Sometimes I feel like
I’m back on the streets again.
Sometimes I feel like
there’s no place to go.
Sometimes I feel like
I’m back on the streets again.
Sometimes it’s the only place that I know.

Sometimes I feel like
I’m back on the streets again.
Sometimes I feel like
There’s no place to go.
Sometimes I feel like
I’m back on the streets again.
Sometimes it’s the only place that I know.

Only place that I know
Yeah.

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Gary Moore has released many songs over the years besides Back On The Streets. Gary Moore released songs from 1973 to 2007 spanning across albums like Grinding Stone, Back On The Streets, G-Force, Corridors Of Power, Dirty Fingers, Victims Of The Future, Run For Cover, Wild Frontier, After The War, Still Got The Blues, After Hours, Blues For Greeny, Dark Days In Paradise, A Different Beat, Back To The Blues, Scars, Power Of The Blues, and Close As You Get. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Gary Moore.

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About Lyrics and Back On The Streets by Gary Moore

The lyrics to Back On The Streets are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that Gary Moore used when the song was created in 1978. The lyrics to Back On The Streets have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only Gary Moore and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Back On The Streets by Gary Moore. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Back On The Streets" means the words set to the music of Back On The Streets, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Gary Moore. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Back On The Streets and the lyrics to Back On The Streets are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Gary Moore who came here looking just for the lyrics to Back On The Streets, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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