Coney Island Winter

Music & Lyrics by Garland Jeffreys

From the album The King of In Between (Luna Park Records, 2011)

Vanity strikes

Humility speaks

Insanity lives on the edge of the streets

This is a story, it happens every day

Politicians kiss my ass

Your promises they break like glass

Royalty looks down

Me, I want to kiss the ground

Twenty-two stops to the city

Twenty-two stops to the city

Twenty-two stops to the city

Twenty-two stops

Freezin’ cold no time to weep

Boardwalk’s dead on a midnight creep

It’s colder than a polar bear

But I don’t care

Coney Island winter

Coney Island winter

Woman walks down the street

Tears come rollin’ down her face

Frozen on her cheeks

Steeplechase, no time to waste

Heaven blessed, heaven sent

Hark the angels, can’t pay the rent

Jobs are gone, they came and went

All the money has been spent

All the games are broken down

Rust is fallin’ to the ground

They say they’re going to fix this town

Straight from City Hall

Coney Island winter

Coney Island winter

Last stop off for the Iron Horse

Ride shuts down on a winter course

Round and round, round and round

On the Ferris Wheel comes to a stop

Standin’ on Mermaid and Surf

Shutters have been shut

Colder than a knife that cut

Streets of summer

Coney Island strut

I’m on a mission of my own

Don’t wanna die on stage

With a microphone in my hand

Coney Island winter

Coney Island winter

Coney Island winter

Coney Island winter