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Speed Demons

from Speed Demons by Jim Ballard

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Speed Demons

The air is heavy ain’t no breeze tonight crowd o’ young boyz gathered by the street lamp light
in the atmosphere you could cut with a knife somebody gonna hear about the street lamp life
Everything’s quiet on the east side front ‘cept for Jacknife Lenny and his paradise punks
talkin bout skippin out them night school classes catch a cross town ride kick some rich boyz asses
Speed Demons on a one way street
Sucked in by the light burned up by the heat Where muscle and blood is all the promise you get Some make it through and some are caught in the net In the naked night in the final toll
You can give up the fight or you can give up your soul Swallowed up by the night
One child thinkin was i born to this? to survive among the dead end streets to never know the kiss of the well off widows of the debutantes growin fat and contented in their restaruants
Somewhere in the sidestep of a tire iron dance
Is this some kinda joke or this some kinda romance Hard lessons learned early never wanna die that a young man surely ain’t supposed to cry
The flower girls on the promenade
The shoe shine boys with their razor blades With every kind of dream that won’t be stilled tonight Risin from the ruins of another rigged fight Stormin the beaches of this conquered land
In every heart that’s diggin in to make a stand Swallowed up by the night
I know the lessons that they tell ya in the school make it make it sound so sweet
But the pavement never learned the golden rule you got to stay on your own feet or be
swallowed up by the night

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from Speed Demons, released May 19, 2020

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Jim Ballard Akron, Ohio

Jim Ballard
A native of NE Ohio, Jim Ballard has been, for many years a part of the recording/performing community. After touring and performing all over the country with artists from 10,000 Maniacs to Gordon Lightfoot,The Mekons to Pete Seeger, he moved into his studio, Skylyne. There, he has recorded and worked with artists from Michael Stanley to Don Dixon and Alex Bevan. ... more

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