Lyrics

[Verse 1] While strollin' up the coastline of the bold Atlantic sea I stumbled upon a love that reached the highest of degree I told her of her beauty, of the tides that it must bring With her home bein' in some foreign land, these words didn't mean a thing For six warm days and six fine nights we heard the eagles whine And she spoke beneath her soft eyes and I answered back through mine On the sixth night of my life the seven oceans all were stilled And I set out for the road with an empty space my heart once filled [Chorus] But now she's a thousand miles away and I'm so weary And I know the streets are cold above Lake Erie [Verse 2] The months grew long thereafter and the pain I could not bear Her memory left me drowning in an ocean of despair The cold winds blew me up and down the streets of Key Biscayne While her lone voice gently echoed through the alleys of my brain [Chorus] But now she's a thousand miles away and I'm so weary And I know the streets are cold above Lake Erie [Verse 3] Way out to Salt Lake City, up the coast past Monterey Love ain't got no mercy on a lonesome boy this way The steamin' road will burn your feet, the tide will take its toll But there's none that's such as cruel, Lord, as the pain inside your soul [Chorus] Oh, she's a thousand miles away and I'm so weary And I know the streets are cold above Lake Erie [Verse 4] The whippoorwill's a-callin' through the moonlit summer skies Out across the lonesome valley, her wounded meat there lies I've walked the streets of Bordeaux and I've walked the streets of Spain Searchin' for a love that I'll never know again [Chorus] 'Cause she's a thousand miles away and I'm so weary And I know the streets are cold above Lake Erie She's a thousand miles away and I'm so weary And I know the streets are cold above Lake Erie