The Street Above Lake Erie

[Verse 1]
While strollin' up the coastline of the bold Atlantic sea
I stumbled upon a love that reached the highest of degree
I told her of her beauty, of the tides that it must bring
With her home bein' in some foreign land, these words didn't mean a thing
For six warm days and six fine nights we heard the eagles whine
And she spoke beneath her soft eyes and I answered back through mine
On the sixth night of my life the seven oceans all were stilled
And I set out for the road with an empty space my heart once filled

[Chorus]
But now she's a thousand miles away and I'm so weary
And I know the streets are cold above Lake Erie

[Verse 2]
The months grew long thereafter and the pain I could not bear
Her memory left me drowning in an ocean of despair
The cold winds blew me up and down the streets of Key Biscayne
While her lone voice gently echoed through the alleys of my brain

[Chorus]
But now she's a thousand miles away and I'm so weary
And I know the streets are cold above Lake Erie

[Verse 3]
Way out to Salt Lake City, up the coast past Monterey
Love ain't got no mercy on a lonesome boy this way
The steamin' road will burn your feet, the tide will take its toll
But there's none that's such as cruel, Lord, as the pain inside your soul

[Chorus]
Oh, she's a thousand miles away and I'm so weary
And I know the streets are cold above Lake Erie

[Verse 4]
The whippoorwill's a-callin' through the moonlit summer skies
Out across the lonesome valley, her wounded meat there lies
I've walked the streets of Bordeaux and I've walked the streets of Spain
Searchin' for a love that I'll never know again

[Chorus]
'Cause she's a thousand miles away and I'm so weary
And I know the streets are cold above Lake Erie
She's a thousand miles away and I'm so weary
And I know the streets are cold above Lake Erie