“Your street, rich street or poor
Used to always be sure, on your street
There's a place in your heart you know from the start
Can't be complete outside of the street
Keep moving on through the joy and the pain
Sometimes you got to look back
To the street again
Would you prefer all those castles in Spain?
Or the view of your street from your window pane?”
The Street Only Knew Your Name
Song lyrics, Inarticulate Speech of the Heart (1983)
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Context: Your righteous eyes, your laconic
trigger-fingers
people the streets with villains:
as you move, the air in front of you
blossoms with targets and you leave behind you a heroic
trail of desolation:
beer bottles
slaughtered by the side
of the road, bird-
skulls bleaching in the sunset.
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The Heart's Summer, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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Variants:
When there's blood in the streets it's time to buy.
As quoted in Inside Man (2006)
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