Harmony Road

The street where we live

Is commonly known as being the wrong side of town

They look down their noses at you

Like they're entitled to keep you down

Our street has its social issues

And violent crime by the bucket load

They laughed when they named it Harmony Road

They say where you're born

Will have an effect on how you turn out in life

So how can you make a living

When all you have is a pocket knife?

You don't have the choice to run

From another violent episode

Welcome to life here on Harmony Road

One day, we'll make a break

Get out of here, make no mistake

We'll steal a car

Find a happy song on the radio

And never come back to Harmony Road

You walk down the hill

And past the old factory shuttered for twenty years

There used to be work

But you wonder how you'll ever get out of here

If I had a song in me

I would pay off all of the debts I owed

I'm all out of tune on Harmony Road

I'll find us some money

And I will take you with me, I promise you

I'll buy you some fancy clothes

And we'll do all the things we wanted to

And no one will know

That we're any different, we're just à la mode

The king and the queen of Harmony Road

One day, we'll make a break from here

We'll make it big and have no fear

Won't carry the social stigma

Of being judged by our postal code

And we will be done with Harmony Road

But then in our dreams

Are we to be haunted by what we left behind?

That road has a way of

Pulling you back if ever you give it mind

No matter the riches

And all the palaces where we may have strode

We'll always belong to Harmony Road

We'll always belong to Harmony Road