Morning bleeds in through the shades
Creeps along the pine, day dawning
The pain's tide is washing in
Bent, crawling skin, head caving in
Eyes adjust to the sun, nights blurring
The air sours in his mouth
Lights a cigarette, shaking, breathes it in
"These nameless, dim-lit streets
Will be the death of me"
Keep you from lonely my friend"
All roads lead to hell
Our fortuned, timely end
No way to cheat our death
Dirty money has got his hands in deeper
Pockets lined in the fights and throwing weight on the dice
"What you got? I need it all so badly"
"These nameless dead-end streets gonna swallow me
Be the death of me"
"I'll get you what you need, keep you from lonely, my friend"
All roads lead to hell
Our fortuned, timely end
"I'll get you what you need"
“What you got?”
"I'll get you what you need, keep you from lonely"
An unpleasant “gut feeling” is also found in the 5th track “Desperate”,
“The bend, guilt and the weight,
the bane of blood in his veins,
a rotting gut full of hurt”
and 8th track “Dealer / Debtor”
“Gut sinking
‘I am a broken, beaten man.
I am a coward at the end.’”
The boardwalk is referenced twice on the 1st studio album, “Travels”,
First, on the 3rd track “Nameless Streets”,
“slow, hand in hand to the boardwalk’s end.”
And again on the 9th track “The Blues”,
“‘Where you headed, kid?’
‘Back to the boardwalk coast to fix the wrong I did’”
Similarly, it is also referenced twice on the 2nd studio album, “Endless Days & Sleepless Nights”
First, on the 10th track “White Oak Doors”,
“Walk him down past the white oak doors
Walk him out past the boardwalk, your old shipyard”
And again in the 13th track, “I Don’t Mind”,
“Lets go walkin' on the boardwalk
Dip our feet into the sea”
Although it’s not explicitly stated, this seems to be a proposition from a prostitute on the boardwalk.