Burning The Bowery - Jesse Malin, The St. Marks Social

I was wasted late last night, a young girl asked me for a light

I felt like I’d been here before when the demon life is a open door

Come on down I’ve been burning with all that’s left inside of me

Comin' down the generations, haunted by the history

I had a girl who shared my name, she stood like a flower but she fell like rain

Tattooed knuckles that spell «only» four letters couldn’t hold me

Come on down I’ve been burning with all that’s left inside of me

Comin down the generations, haunted by the history

I’m burnin on the Bowery, I’m burnin' on the Bowery

Right back here where you found me, still burnin' on the Bowery

My grandfather worked these streets, took my grandma to the Roseland beat

Society of Vinacola, graveyard shift and rock ‘n' rollers

Come on down I’ve been burning with all that’s left inside of me

Comin' down the generations, haunted by the history

I’m burnin on the Bowery, I’m burnin' on the Bowery

Right back here where you found me, still burnin' on the Bowery

Lonely voices on the phone, say «Hey hey is Artie home?»

I’m gunna call up Jimmy G. Find out what’s gone wrong with me

Indian trails and sidewalk strays, old school hardcore matinees

Ginsberg’s tears and Thunders' cross, the things we won and the ones we lost

I’m burnin on the Bowery, I’m burnin' on the Bowery

Right back here where you found me, still burnin' on the Bowery

I’m burnin on the Bowery, I’m burnin' on the Bowery

Got something to empower me, still burnin' on the Bowery