Used to be lots of Beatles. Used to be lots of bugs
Used to be lots of changing the world and there used to be lots of love
Now you see all sorts of excess. Burning cash not cards
Reflections of Narshippie? He’s rather heavy on the hog
Cutting 'cross traffic Cutting towards obtain
At the corner of 69th and a street called Main
Making a right from the left hand lane
Used to be lots of bare feet. Talk of a new start
Not only are times a changing, but there's been a change of heart
The green of the dollar out races the fig leaf
No one cares to share the wood
In blue stock praise, belief
Cutting 'cross traffic Cutting towards obtain
At the corner of 69th and a street called Main
Making a right from the left hand lane
Used to be lots of freedom
They say I should have been there
but in their intoxicated state they can't remember why or where
Their winds of change blow through point two
Impaired. In swerve with sway
And its that whiff of generations that makes sober me today
Cutting 'cross traffic Cutting towards obtain
At the corner of 69th and a street called Main
Making a right from the left hand lane
Copyright © 1994/2017/2023: albinosongs & John Quincy Adams
The MUSICIANS
Albino Guimaraes Vocals & Electric Guitar
Joe Boyle Electric Guitars
Joe O’Brien Bass Guitar
Gene Santini Drums
Sophie Guimaraes Background Vocals
Behind The Song...
The Left Hand Lane (Remix)
From Grand Central Station I was walking to 810 Seventh Avenue one day to work when I watched a cabbie make a right turn from a left hand lane with total disregard for everyone, but himself. This event coupled with my newly minted angst about the realities of a working man’s life and the media frenzy around the Woodstock Anniversary concert got me thinking and this lyric came out. Around the same time I was starting to play some music with John Adams, a guitar player who’s tone made me meet him after one of his gigs at the Fore N Aft in White Plains, NY. John brought the basic song structure to me and I married it to the lyric I had been working on.