his daddy made a fortune so he handed it down
along with his weakness for royal crown
long shot ponies and bottle blondes
and anything else to get the lonley gone
made front page news when he took a dive
all that money and he still couldn't fly

it ain't that easy on easy street
it ain't that easy on easy street

he had a sister and we had a thing
but she left me for a lawyer and a two karat ring
a house on the lake with a mercedes benz
a line of credit so long it like to never end
last i heard he traded her for
someone who looked like her twenty years before

it ain't that easy on easy street
it ain't that easy on easy street

so we dream our dreams and lives
build these walls we get stuck inside
put our hearts in each others hands
cradled in the promise of the promised land
then one day from a clear blue sky
the devil comes a calling and a nation crys

it ain't that easy on easy street
it ain't that easy on easy street
it ain't that easy on easy street
it ain't that easy on easy street, oh no