Hiss Golden Messenger - Terms of Surrender

Down at the Uptown

It was a real live world, and I wanna live in it
I got up and sung in [overrun] places like this
Christmas lights, but nobody gave a shit, I guess
Was a real live world, and I wanna live in it

So if I'm a stranger now
And runnin' on my own time
It's 'cause I made a vow
Down at the Uptown

on the radio
Trouble's in the bathroom, sleepin' off a bad one
is selling roses out the back door
It was a real live world, and I wanna live in it

So if I'm a stranger now
And runnin' on my own time
It's 'cause I made a vow
Down at the Uptown

Mama, I'm standing on the ledge-i-o
Run, jump, or fly I think I caught a bad one
I guess we only get so many chances to shine
It was a real live world and I wanna live in it

So if I'm a stranger now
And runnin' on my own time
It's 'cause I made a vow
Down at the Uptown

So if I'm a stranger now
And runnin' on my own time
It's 'cause I made a vow
Down at the Uptown



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Writer(s): Michael Carrington Taylor
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Other Album Tracks

  1. I Need a Teacher
  2. Bright Direction (You’re a Dark Star Now)
  3. My Wing
  4. Old Enough to Wonder Why (East Side—West Side)
  5. Cat’s Eye Blue
  6. Happy Birthday, Baby
  7. Down at the Uptown
  8. Katy (You Don’t Have to Be Good Yet)
  9. Whip
  10. Terms of Surrender

All Album Tracks: Terms of Surrender >

Altri album

  1. Jump for Joy
  2. 20 Years and a Nickel
  3. Nu-Grape
  4. Time Down the Wind
  5. The Sounding Joy: Hiss Golden Messenger Meets Revelators on South Robinson Street
  6. O Come All Ye Faithful
  7. Grace
  8. Quietly Blowing It
  9. Glory Strums (Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner)
  10. If It Comes in the Morning

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