The Payola$ - No Stranger to Danger - 05 - Hastings Street

I'm living down Hastings Street
Got the whole world at my feet
I did my best and I tried not to quit
Hiding away in my scared-stiff bed sit, and I've got no more heroes
It looks like my future's a mess
There's people starving all over this place
Lines on my forehead running down my face
I didn't want to grow up this fast
I thought my fun would last

Now there's nothing left to shout about
Nothing worth dying for
There's no one here
Just me and my problems

I gave up my dreams of escaping
I know there's no room at the top
Said
I've grown unfriendly and I trust no one
Lord, I wish I could turn the picture off
'Cos I'm living in a scene from a cop show
And even the good guys are bad
Proud men, you used to have to buy them
Now you've got to dry them out
I didn't want to grow up this fast

Now there's nothing left to shout about
Nothing worth dying for
There's no one here
Just me and my problems

Scream like a knife cut the silence
Oh god I hope I locked the door
Things didn't turn out the way that I'd planned
Losing my life in this no-man's-land

I'm living down Hastings Street
Got the whole world at my feet
I did my best and I tried not to quit
Hiding away in my scared-stiff bed sit
I didn't want to grow up this fast
I thought my fun would last

Now there's nothing left to shout about
Nothing worth dying for
There's no one here
Just me and my problems



I assume no ownership of this song, which is the property of Bob Rock, Paul Hyde, and the Payola$.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• The Payola$
• No Stranger to Danger
• Bob Rock
• Paul Hyde
• Mick Ronson
• New Wave
• post punk
• power pop
• ballad
• Canada
• Canucks
• 1982
• early-'80s
• East Vancouver
• Luvafair
• Commodore Ballroom
• Hastings Street
• Downtown Eastside
• poverty

[fireproh99]

there is no other corner quite like main and hastings. This song reminds me of Vancouver miss it...

[dexterriley]

is there a vid for "perhaps some day? "

[fringedweller99]

thank you for posting this, like dychysh i remember when this came out, as a person who lived on hastings street. there is nothing like it. thank you.

[dychysh]

Thanks for this. I'd forgotten how much I loved this song, even though it makes me sad and breaks my heart.

[ScottAln05]

Superb.