his daddy made a fortune so he handed it downalong with his weakness for royal crownlong shot ponies and bottle blondesand anything else to get the lonley gonemade front page news when he took a diveall that money and he still couldn’t flyit ain’t that easy on easy streetit ain’t that easy on easy streethe had a sister and we had a thingbut she left me for a lawyer and a two karat ringa house on the lake with a mercedes benza line of credit so long it like to never endlast i heard he traded her forsomeone who looked like her twenty years beforeit ain’t that easy on easy streetit ain’t that easy on easy streetso we dream our dreams and livesbuild these walls we get stuck insideput our hearts in each others handscradled in the promise of the promised landthen one day from a clear blue skythe devil comes a calling and a nation crysit ain’t that easy on easy streetit ain’t that easy on easy streetit ain’t that easy on easy streetit ain’t that easy on easy street, oh no