[ti:From A Few Streets Over] [ar:Ron Sexsmith] [al:Ron Sexsmith] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]From A Few Streets Over - Ron Sexsmith [00:09.89]From a few streets over [00:12.13]Before the sun goes down [00:15.48]You can hear it coming closer [00:17.60]To this dislocated shoulder [00:18.64] [00:20.70]Of an old and crooked town [00:25.51]That's when the ice cream van rolls around [00:36.92] [00:40.09]But in the land of plenty [00:42.49]The money here is tight [00:45.50]The children here are many [00:47.84](And if you do have any) [00:51.71]He will park his van outside [00:55.82]There waits the ice cream man [00:59.80]With the cold dark eyes [01:10.38]For it's not a 'Rockwell' summer [01:13.27]Or a world of 'd**k and Jane' [01:16.48]And how it makes you shudder [01:18.77]Like you used to hide from thunder [01:22.51]When you hear him coming down the lane [01:26.27]And you condemn the ice cream man [01:30.40]To the world of flame [01:32.77] [02:06.56]A sickly sweet wind is blowing [02:08.77]Across the fields of hell [02:11.44]A licorice night's unfolding [02:13.72]Near a grave sight a corroded [02:16.53]Old and burnt out carousel [02:21.71]Here lies the ice cream man [02:25.73]The devil treats him well