Album: August and Everything After (1993)

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• Take the way home that leads back to Sullivan St.
  Cross the water and home through the town
  Past the shadows that fall down wherever we meet
  Pretty soon I won't come around
  
  I'm almost drowning in her sea
  She's nearly fallen to her knees
  Take the way home, ba-ba-ba-ba-ba
  
  Take the way home that leads back to Sullivan St.
  Where all the bodies hang on the air
  If she remembers, she hides it whenever we meet
  Either way now, I don't really care
  I'm gone from there
  
  I'm almost drowning in her seas
  She's nearly crawling on her knees
  She's down on her knees
  Down on her knees
  
  Take the way home that leads back to Sullivan St.
  Where I'm just another rider burned to the ground
  Come tumbling down
  
  I'm almost drowning in her sea
  She's nearly crawling on her knees
  It's almost everything I need
  I'm down on my knees
  I'm down on my knees
  I'm down on, down on my knees
  I'm down on my knees
  I'm down on my knees Writer/s: ADAM FREDRIC DURITZ, BEN G MIZE, CHARLES THOMAS GILLINGHAM, DANIEL JOHN VICKREY, DAVID LYNN BRYSON, MATTHEW MARK MALLEY, STEVE BOWMAN
  Publisher: IMAGEM U.S. LLC
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 6

• Lori S from TejasIf you listen he mentions crossing the bridge and going over the bay. That is the same way to get to San P. Not in Frisco but it is considered. Just like anything outside of Houston Tx is considered Houston. Like Missouri City, Stafford, Deer Park etc. Just a suburb. Hope that helps. It is a small strip of road and a long ways out. So it checks out that this was the road.
• Lori S from TexasThe Sullivan street he is referencing is in San Pablo north east of San Fran:)
• Ruben from Rotterdam, Netherlandsoh, Source!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=425&v=Ae2Nh0ObSoo, from 48 minutes 42 seconds and further
• Ruben from Rotterdam, NetherlandsAbout where Sullivan street is:
  The album was released in 1993. Adam Duritz was about 29 years old at the time.
  I tried to find where he lived. Wikipedia sais the following:
  Duritz grew up in Baltimore, Maryland; Boston, Massachusetts; El Paso, Texas; and Berkeley, California. He is the son of Gilbert and Linda Duritz, both physicians. Duritz has a younger sister, Nicole.[30] Duritz attended the prestigious Taft School, and graduated from the Head-Royce School in Oakland, California.
  
  I can't find a Sullivan street in google maps in the following cities: Balimore, Maryland; El Paso, Texas; Berkeley, California.
  I can find it in: Boston, Massachusetts.
  
  But i suppose Boston is was the first City he lived in, so that doesn't make sense.
  
  Then i found this:
  "I had this girlfriend who lived in San Francisco
  I lived in Berkeley
  She lived on the far side on San Francisco and
  Her mother came out to live with her from from New York
  and her mother was really, really, really catholic
  and so she could never stay at my house
  We have to take her home every night
  It was a long drive all the way from the hills of Berkeley
  down to the freeway and on to the bridge and across the bay into San Francisco
  She lived on the far fu**ing side of the city
  and every time I drove back I had to let her go and you know
  It's like on top of everything else."
  
  Yet, San Francisco has no Sullivan street..
  He continues:
  "I had to let her go
  I can never have stayed
  She could never stay
  and I don't know one day
  I just had this, I get this feeling lot
  I think I wrote a bunch of songs about it
  Just knew it wasn't going to last much longer
  Not that i wasn't in love with her
  and it was even after her mother got the f**k out of town
  but I was thinking a lot about those drives
  because I started thinking one day it was just going to be over soon
  I don't know for me sometimes it doesn't matter how good it is
  It's s just going to be over soon so
  I wrote this song
  I don't know why I called it what I did because
  I didn't leave anywhere near any place named this but
  I wrote a song called Omaha I never been there before in my life
  When we first toured in Omaha the mayor tried to gives me the key to the city
  I was so embarrassed that I didn't go
  I could have had these hug f**king now but I don't got it
  But this is a song about something matters and you just know it is going to go
  and it is about someone name Susan
  I don't' know where she is now but it is called Sullivan Street"
  
  So, long story short, it isn't real.. :/ bummer to find out this way
• Brian from Boston, MaI want to just correct my previous post.The Two main Chords are D and D/G which is a D chord with a G bass note. It should actually be played as D/G because although if you just play a G chord the song will be recognizable while playing D/G the high G string is open and rings out and that is exactly what is heard on the recording.Also If anyone knows exactly where this Sullivan street actually is please let me know
• Brian from Boston, MaThis song is great. There are mainly just two chords in this song. D and G. There is an E minor in the middle 8 but it is mostly just two chords. A perfect example of simple yet elegant.The guitar and piano compliment each other perfectly. August and everything after the album from wich this song comes is one of the best albums of the 90's.Considering the albums' popularity I am surprised that there are not more comments about this song. I consider this CD to be one of the best that I own.

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