Emerald Street Lyrics - Old Crows / Young Cardinals - Alexisonfire

Pregnant teens on the Barton Street bus 

Homeless people living off crust 

and there's a beat-up town car - it's starting to rust 

Hard soles are kicking up dust 

Half a million people living in the corpse of the brown brick 50's 

To the north, all the small town outcasts are now the big city bourgeoisie 

All the boys in the halfway houses 

Wave to the girls of Emerald Street 

Our calloused fingers, blood red on the brick - but we hold on 

We'll never falter, though they want us to slip - we hold on 

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The desperate, downtown stealing bikes 

Drunks in the village are picking fights 

So, police line the streets to read them their rights 

No controlling hot summer nights 

The sun goes down on the edge of town, at the end of everyday 

We sit and watch the stack, on fire, to the east across the bay 

All the boys in the halfway houses 

Wave to the girls of Emerald Street 

Our calloused fingers, blood red on the brick - but we hold on 

We'll never falter, though they want us to slip - we hold on 

There's something in the church belfry 

At the corner of Victoria and King 

And it screams out into the night 

It sings this city's plight 

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All the boys in the halfway houses 

Wave to the girl on Emerald Street 

Our calloused fingers, blood red on the brick - but we hold on 

We'll never falter, though they want us to slip - we hold on 

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