Bette Midler - I Know This Town lyrics

I know these streets and these backyards,

this barn that`s falling down.

We come to where they`re building now

and ride our bikes around.

You think I`m just a little kid,

some troubles on the way.

but I knew this place before you did

is all I`ve got to say.

I`m only walking

through these streets and all around.

I`m only walking.

I know this town.

We come home through these fields at night

about a million times.

I`d walk the road with my eyes closed

and all the paths besdies.

And I know the boy who broke this fence,

and I know his brother, too.

And they`s never give me half a chance

if I let on to you.

I`m only walking

through these streets and all around.

I`m only walking.

I know this town.

I know this town.

We dam the streams, we raid the shacks,

and hide in boxcars on the tracks.

We know these quarries in our sleep

and where they`re cold and where they`re deep.

I`ll go down to the bowling alley

and buy smokes and Dentyne.

I find some loose change every day

under that Coke machine.

You check me out as you drive by

like there was some big deal.

But I know so much you`ll never find

from there behind the wheel.

I`m only walking

through these streets and all around.

I`m only walking.

I know this town.

I know this town.

I know this town.

I know this town.