Songwriter: Annette Ducharme
Producer: John Webster Tom Cochrane
Tilting at windmills on a downtown street
O the big grey landscape has lost its sheep
She wears a tight smile as she's walking the beat
Looking for a little fame
This ain't no oliver twist - no mister brownlow here
She gathers enough spare change to get
Something to eat
She takes emeralds and ecstasy on a journey that's
Miles and miles away from danger
She just wants to be happy now
CHORUS
She's living on the street
Flowers in the concrete
What a beautiful beat
Flowers in the concrete
Walking on lines of poetry
She's a shakesperian tragedy
Between the beatniks the bums and the bohemians
There's always somebody on the run
Trying to get away from that danger
She's just trying to get away from
The stranger
CHORUS
She dances on the pavement
Likes she's the only one
Who's a stranger
In a cloudburst she starts to cry
You have to do the weirdest things just to
Stay alive
I'm going down to meet my fate at the
Jesus saves sign
Maybe get lucky- maybe find my smile yeah
CHORUS
O the big grey landscape has lost its sheep
She wears a tight smile as she's walking the beat
Looking for a little fame
This ain't no oliver twist - no mister brownlow here
She gathers enough spare change to get
Something to eat
She takes emeralds and ecstasy on a journey that's
Miles and miles away from danger
She just wants to be happy now
CHORUS
She's living on the street
Flowers in the concrete
What a beautiful beat
Flowers in the concrete
Walking on lines of poetry
She's a shakesperian tragedy
Between the beatniks the bums and the bohemians
There's always somebody on the run
Trying to get away from that danger
She's just trying to get away from
The stranger
CHORUS
She dances on the pavement
Likes she's the only one
Who's a stranger
In a cloudburst she starts to cry
You have to do the weirdest things just to
Stay alive
I'm going down to meet my fate at the
Jesus saves sign
Maybe get lucky- maybe find my smile yeah
CHORUS
more tracks from the album
From the album
- Ragged Ass Road (1995)
Tom Cochrane popular songs
- Life Is a Highway
- Stonecutter’s Arms
- Crawl
- Rough and Tumble
- Human Race
- You’re Driving Me Crazy (Faith Healers)
- Sinking Like a Sunset
- Everything Comes Around
- Windy Night in Fall
- Didn’t I Lorraine
- What’s in You
- Out of My Head
- Lunatic Fringe
- Friendly Advice
- Northern Frontier
- Just Scream
- Dreamer’s Dream
- Bigger Man
- Didn’t Mean
- Good Man Feeling Bad
- Will of the Gun
- Art of Listening
- Emotional Truth
- Revelations: Visions in a Dream