Water Street
©1979, 2010 Andrew Calhoun, recorded on 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 more 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
Someday I will walk down Water Street
Far among the noble fields
Someday I will walk down Water Street
Far among the noble fields
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
Someday I will walk down Water Street
Far among the noble fields
Someday I will walk down Water Street
Far among the noble fields
There is a light at the edge of Water Street
Each remembered, none forgot
We are called from the end of Water Street
Gather here, and suffer not
Someday I will walk down Water Street
Far among the noble fields
Someday I will walk down Water Street
Far among the noble fields