Requiem For A Hooker
Album: The 26th Street Band - Fresh Air
By: Barry Dunn
By: Barry Dunn
Duration
4:08
Genres
Description
A "morality study" of what can happen in a relationship when hard drugs get introduced. The principal character in the story, is a composite of persons I have personally had a relationship with, as well as the experiences of other people that I have known and witnessed.
Lyrics
REQUIEM FOR A HOOKER I KNEW A WOMAN, SHE WAS A SWEET LITTLE THING, LORD, I WISH SHE STILL KNEW ME SHE ALWAYS DROVE ME CRAZY WHEN SHE HELD MY HAND, LOOKIN’ JUST AS FINE AS SHE COULD BE LITTLE DID WE KNOW OF THE HELL THAT WOULD COME AS WE BASKED IN THE GLOW OF OUR YOUTH, BUT SURE AS SUNRISE, THE TIDE OF LIFE WOULD CHANGE, AND SHATTER OUR WORLD WITH IT’S TRUTH 1st CHORUS WE LOVED HARD IN THE SPRINGTIME OF OUR LIFE UNAFRAID TO HEED THE CALL OF OUR NATURAL DRIVES WE TOOK EVERY CHANCE WE FOUND, TO LET OURSELVES GO BUT WHAT THE WORLD HELD IN STORE FOR US, WE HAD NO WAY TO KNOW. TIME CAME AND WENT, AND OUR LOVE EBBED, IT LEFT US LIKE A TURNING TIDE IT CAME AS NO SURPRISE TO FIND THAT SHE WAS LONG GONE, AND WOULD BE NO LONGER BY MY SIDE IT WAS AN EVIL THING THAT TOOK HER LOVE FROM ME IT TURNED HER HEAD AND MADE HER PULL AWAY NOW ALL I COULD DO WAS WATCH IN HELPLESS DESPAIR, AS SHE LEFT AND WENT THAT AWFUL WAY 1st CHORUS, LEAD I USED TO SEE HER NOW AND THEN WORKING OUT IN THE STREETS, TRYING TO HUSTLE UP ANOTHER FIX. IT NEARLY MADE ME CRAZY TO SEE HER GO TO WORK JUST TO GET THE MONEY FOR HER KICKS I WISH THAT I COULD CHANGE THE CHOICES THAT SHE MADE, AND THE DIRECTION THAT SHE TOOK ON THIS EARTH. BUT I READ IN THE PAPER WHEN I WOKE UP TODAY, THEY FOUND HER FLOATING FACE DOWN IN THE SURF 2nd CHORUS SHE WAS A HARD LOVIN’ WOMAN, THAT’S A FACT SHE WAS A HARD LOVIN’ WOMAN, YEAH, FLAT ON HER BACK SHE WAS A HARD LOVIN’ WOMAN, DON’T YOU KNOW SHE WAS A HARD LOVIN’ WOMAN, WITH NO PLACE TO GO, Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go…..
