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Dorian speaks to the people about getting married,
The Village Card Shop will tell all their friends
Versailles will make up a cake for the party,
and Costos will make up the flowers againDown from my window I can go dreamin'
The record store window shows me jackets I've never seen before
And off to my left Marlboro shows me adventures,
with people and places right inside the door.
But the windows, here on 8th Street, well they're very, very true
and you know they will not lie for even you.
The Arrow Shirt Store did a much better business by moonlight,
but they bought through the windows and not through the doors
But you know that the Arrow people have gotten the message,
cause they got those big iron gates installed
The couples I see, are not like the old ones.
You know, the kind that used to have a boy and a girl.
For the couples on 8th Street don't like to be mixing,
and boy will have boys and girls will have girls
But the windows, here on 8th Street, well they're very, very true
and you know they will not lie for even you.
Businessmen stand on the corner selling vacations.
"Is there anywhere special you'd like to go?"
"We can take you around the world for a nickel.
And deliver you right back to your door."
On Saturday evening the streets get so crowded,
with a people who are so very strange to see.
And on Sunday morning they all go home to the suburbs.
And they don't leave us nothin' but the debris.
The one final thing I see out my window,
are the people who live here and just want to be free.
But they can't buy in these stores for they don't have enough money.
But God let them stay here to keep the streets free.
And my windows, here on 8th street, well they're very, very true.
and you know they will not lie for even you.... so what will you do?
8th Street words and Music by Gandalf T. Grey Copyright 1972 Grey Wizard Music, ASCAP.
Written as the title song to a Broadway play never produced:
"8th Street"
(I wish I could give the play to Cher....wouldn't she be great on Broadway)
Note: All these stores could be seen out my living room window from apartment 1 A at 57 west 8th Street, where I painted a complete
mural of Middle Earth over the living room, (that exists to this day, behind a dropped ceiling) These are the same windows from where I used to sing and close up the street with people listening....it was a
special time, and I thank the Lord that I was allowed to live it.....For many years people in the entertainment field, as well as my folks, thought I would do much more with my music....Being from the era of
Bob-a-Lou, Murray the K and Cousin Brucie, I wrote "hit songs", words, melodies, feelings, etc., and I may again. I wish to thank all those who still love them. |
