Andrew Calhoun - Water Street lyrics

Water Street

Title track of my first (1983) LP. Water Street runs off the edge of Middlebury, Vermont, where I spent summers from age 7-12 as my mother was studying French. Water Street looked like it led into an enchanted, beautiful world. But I never did go there, until I was grown up and of course I shouldn't have gone at all. My father is not an alcoholic. Some of my songs are autobiographical, and some of them aren't.

Someday I will walk down Water Street,
Far among the noble fields;
Someday I will walk down Water Street,
Far among the noble fields.

It’s a pleasant street to walk by,
Starts at the edge of the edge of town;
It’s a pleasant street to walk by—
The kind of street I don’t walk down.

Chorus

Whiskey dogs my father’s footsteps,
Hot guilt blinds my mother’s eye;
I am weak and I am lonely,
I have only one long try.

Chorus

One light shines to the edge of Water Street,
Each remembered, none forgot;
We are called from the end of Water Street:
“Gather here, and suffer not.”