"I Like the Street (Electric Velvet Version)"
Song of the Week!
SONG OF THE WEEK: “I Like the Street”
—This song hearkens back to when I had a “day job” as a bike messenger, cycling around the urban hills of San Francisco. That presented opportunities to study strangers, speed, and sweat
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Sweat points to a rhythm under your skin and makes it glisten in the light. Sweat does not discriminate between burlap or satin, barkeep or ballerina. Lying makes people sweat. So does love. Jesus sweated drops of blood. Sweat carries the dust of disappointment and the heat of anticipation. This is Sweat Logic, a way of coping and seeing behind the masks that people wear in life. One day I was reflecting on that and, suddenly, a song sprang forth, with lyrics that are “AUTO-biographical.” This song is "my mind on bike."
“I like the street / I like the street
The hustle and the bustle and the people that I meet
The grifters and the star-struck, The poets and the drunks
The PhDs and jailbirds, The models and the punks,
The barkers and the preachers and the friends that I hold dear
Some will bring you aggravation, some will bring you cheer (beep beep)…”
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