Lyrics for Baker Street as interpreted by berserker

Baker Street Lyrics
Winding your way down on Baker Street
Light in your head, and dead on your feet
Well another crazy day, you drink the night away
And forget about everything

This city's dance makes you feel so cold, it's got
So many people but its got no soul
And its taken you so long to find out you were wrong
When you thought it held everything.

You used to think that it was so easy
You used to say that it was so easy
But you're trying, you're trying now
Another year and then you'd be happy
Just one more year and then you'd be happy
But you're crying, you're crying now

Way down the street there's a light in his place
You open the door, he's got that look on his face
And he asks you where you've been, you tell him who you've seen
And you talk about everything

He's got this dream about buying some land
He's gonna give up the crack and the one night stands
And then he'll settle down, it's a quiet little town
And forget about everything

But you know he'll always keep moving
You know he's never gonna stop moving
Cause he's rolling, He's the rolling stone
And when you wake up it's a new morning
The sun is shining it's a new morning
And you're going, you're going home

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berserker
06-07-2002

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I am in love w/this song it is so amazing and the riff lifts me up into a sense that is unexplicable

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Biffen
10-13-2002

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A great cover!

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kid A
03-09-2003

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I liked this song my dad used to play the original and I used to think it was decent but I love the Foo's and when I found this version it blew me away class song!

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Omega6_Virus
03-20-2003

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Just an amazing cover. The original is awesome too. The guitar is orgasmic!

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Timm
05-10-2003

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possibly the best cover ever done, its done perfectly by grohl and co. it is a great old song and the revamped way the foo's play it makes it sound just awesome.

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richenback
04-21-2004

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one of the best covers (nothing beats all along the watch tower by hendrix) to bad they didn't get someone to play sax, would have been nice to hear grohl play sax, just for kicks

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Cherub Rock
09-28-2004

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I probably only like this better than the original because I wasn't around when it was released, so I wasn't used to Gerry Rafferty's original. Great song

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NeuralNoise
11-07-2004

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Great cover , good gerry rafferty song too :P

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conquer
01-28-2005

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i couldn't imagine anyone doing a better cover of this song. The guitar is positively refeshing and Dave's vocals give a smooth sound.
just excellent.

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MunkyMan
03-07-2005

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this song was made to be covered by the foos. The guitar intro is such an awesome way of updating the old version. amazing!

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KrOnicK
07-18-2005

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pretty good cover!!! :D:D:D. Usually its the originals that r better, but not in this case

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sivilla
12-21-2005

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agree with all the above possibly the best rock cover of the last 20 years.

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elwyn5150
01-17-2006

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This is a fantastic cover but I have to disagree with some of you.

The original is better, particularly because the saxophone parts. The sax has a presence like in movies where a sax player is on a balcony resounding through the night. Also with Baker Street being the home of legendary detective Sherlock Holmes, sax on the soundtrack is so film noir.

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uchihasasuke
01-19-2006

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Funny thing is that whenever I heard Foo Fighters play on the radio, I always thought they sounded like a modern Gerry Rafferty. I found this cover and I was blown :P

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Necronic
07-24-2006

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wow. no one put what they thought the song was about. anyway, drugs. and buying them. and being victimized by the punishing american system. and what results in this struggle to maintain drugs addiction. yeah. thats what it means to me.

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GKendall
10-01-2007

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victimised by the American system? you do realise Rafferty is Scottish & Baker Street is in London?

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floydlove
10-18-2007

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Gotta admit this is a great cover but the original is timeless. Love them both though. Fantastic song.

My favourite lines are 'you drink the night away
And forget about everything', 'Another year and then you'd be happy' and 'Just one more year and then you'd be happy'.

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Kokoro/o/Iwaku/Sono
03-16-2008

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This is an amazing song, I love that Santana-like guitar riff coupled with Dave Grohl's caramelly, smooth yet somewhat scratchy vocals; makes you feel a little nostalgic for the past, remembering good times that are long-lost (that's what it makes me think of, back when I was a younger kid, back before I moved, how I miss it and how it felt good). Think he said it was something along those lines in a magazine interview once.....

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degree7
09-22-2009

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This cover is... meh.

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highpalms
11-05-2009

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crack!? crack!? the orginal is booze. well the foos modernized it a bit. hearing the orignial sax is legendary when that sax tune is played -people know it. it is that well known. as for the guitar, knowing that you are going to play a tune that is famous. the person who played the guitar knew he had to get that tune right. this songs guitar to me is played very well -takes the place of the sax. but i think people who grew up with this on the radio will always think the sax is much better, and is a steriotypicly moral instrument. (jazz blues classics were never really thought of as evil genres as like heavy metal or death metal in which the guitar is well heard in those genres. linking the electric guitar to satanic music. i mean i don't hear the sax in black sabbath or metalica, or ACDC)

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