from a backwater town in ohio all the way down to new orleans hiding deep in the bayou waiting on a northbound river queen for too many years now i ve been the devil s own in a midnight rage i take the streets alone chorus living in the shadows hiding in the shadows of night wounded in the shadows down on the streets down on the streets down on the streets of paradise walking around there was a wound in my head for many long days i was left there for dead so many miles from the borderline only half a man down on the streets tonight living in the shadows hiding in the shadows of night wounded in the shadows down on the streets down on the streets down on the streets of paradise 