G Em (3x)
D C C D G C C D G D C D
G Em (4x)

G                            Em
One soft infested summer, me and Terry became friends
G                               Em
Trying in vain to breathe the fire we was born in
G                             Em
Catching rides to the outskirts, tying faith between our teeth
D                                  C
Sleeping in that old abandoned beach house, getting wasted in the heat, yeh

G             C
Hiding on the backstreets
G             C
Hiding on the backstreets
G                Am            G   Em
With a love so hard and filled with defeat
C                          G
Running for our lives at night on them backstreets

G Em (2x)

G                          Em
Slow dancing in the dark on the beach at Stockton's Wing
G                                      Em
Where desperate lovers park, we sat with the last of the Duke Street Kings
D                    C
Huddled in our cars, waiting for the bells that ring
Am                                  C             D
In the deep heart of the night they set us loose of everything

G              C
To go running on the backstreets
G              C
Running on the backstreets
G          Am      G   Em
Terry, you swore we'd live forever
C                                G
Taking it on them backstreets together

G Em (2x)

A                       F#m
Endless juke joints and Valentino drag
A                                    F#m
Where dancers scraped the tears up off the street, dressed down in rags
A                             F#m
Running into the darkness, some hurt bad, some really dying
E                                            D
At night sometimes it seemed you could hear the whole damn city crying
A                                                    E
Blame it on the lies that killed us, blame it on the truth that ran us down
A                                   D
You can blame it all on me, Terry, it don't matter to me now
D                                    E
When the breakdown hit at midnight, there was nothing to say
A                E                        F#m
But I hated him, and I hated you when you went away

B7 D  B7 D7 D
Wa ah Wa Ah

G Em (4x)

G                                       Em
Laying here in the dark, you're like an angel on my chest
G                             Em
Just another tramp of hearts crying tears of faithlessness
D                            C
Remember all the movies, Terry, we'd go see
Am                               C                 D
Trying to learn to walk like the heroes we thought we had to be
Em                                 Bm
And after all this time, to find we're just like all the rest
C               C6           D
Stranded in the park and forced to confess

G             C
To hiding on the backstreets
G             C
Hiding on the backstreets
G        Am   G      Em
Where we swore forever friends
C                     G
On the backstreets until the end

G Em (2x)

G
Hiding on the backstreets
Em
Hiding on the backstreets
G
Hiding on the backstreets
Em
Hiding on the backstreets...
C6
Hiding on the backstreets
Am
Hiding on the backstreets

G
Hiding on the backstreets
C
Hiding on the backstreets
G
Hiding on the backstreets
C
Hiding on the backstreets...

G C C D
G D G D G