Songs that mention roads, streets etc

[Dan Murphy]

Thunder Road--Springsteen

 

[Dan Murphy]

One For My Baby and One More For the Road--Sinatra

 

[Dan Murphy]

Holiday Road--Lindsey Buckingham

Vacation

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[Dan Murphy]

On the Road Again--Canned Heat

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

Sheryl Crow. All I wanna do.

Mentions Santa Monica Blvd.

 

[PollyannaMom]

Walking in Memphis - Marc Cohn

...Saw the ghost of Elvis
On Union Avenue ...

 

[PollyannaMom]

from Bedknobs and Broomsticks - Portobello Road

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

Randy Newman I love LA

Mentions the Imperial highway. Most portions of this historical route have been replaced, renamed, and renumbered.

 

[bcla]

Where the Streets Have No Name- U2

That deserves the full treatment including the official music video of the free concert in L.A. that got shut down by the police. I think the music was dubbed from the studio version though.

 

[PollyannaMom]

On Broadway - The Drifters

They say the neon lights are bright on Broadway...

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

Free Fallin Tom Petty.

Mentions Ventura Blvd.

 

[bcla]

How about an eclectic collection?

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

REM Electrolite

Mentions Mulholland Dr.

 

[PollyannaMom]

Part of Your World, from Little Mermaid

Flipping your fins you don't get too far
Legs are required for jumping, dancing
Strolling along down a
What's that word again? Street

 

[bcla]

 

[JimMIA]

Sunset Jesus by Avicii (vocal by Gavin DeGraw)

The "Sunset" referred to is Sunset Blvd in Hollywood -- where there is an actual person referred to as "Sunset Jesus."
"He once was a waiter, now he's a savior -- making money on the street."

 

[RedAngie]

You caught yourself a trick down
On Sunset and Vine
But since he pinned you, baby
You're a porcupine

 

[RedAngie]

Friends are so alarming
My lover's never charming
Life's just a cocktail party on the street
Big Apple
People dressed in plastic bags
Directing traffic
Some kind of fashion
Shattered

Laughter, joy, and loneliness and sex and sex and sex and sex
Look at me, I'm in tatters
I'm a shattered
Shattered

All this chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter 'bout
Shmatta, shmatta, shmatta, I can't give it away on 7th Avenue

 

[Kennywood]

 

[RedAngie]

Blood on the T.V., ten o'clock news.
Souls are invaded, heart in a groove.
Beatin' and beatin' so outta time.
What's the mad matter with the church chimes?
Here comes a stranger up on Ninth Avenue.
Leanin' green tower, indiscreet view.
Over the cloud, over the bridge,
Sensitive muscle, sensitive ridge of my
Space monkey. Sign of the time-time
Space monkey, so outta line-line.
Space monkey, sort of divine.
And he's mine, mine, all mine.