Streets Of Glory

Album: Fall To Grace (2012)
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Songfacts®:

  • This song is about Faith's love for a man, which is so destructive they can only hope to be together when they die. The singer told Q magazine that she has, "been in that situation, though it wasn't a boyfriend."
  • One of Faith's approaches to writing lyrics for her songs is to take a direct line from films, take it out of context and put her own meaning on it if it's poignant to her. Speaking with American Songwriter magazine, the English songstress said that she took this song's title from the Cohen brothers' movie True Grit. "I went to see that and somebody said, 'see you on the streets of glory' to the other," she explained. "It didn't really go and specify what it meant, but I read that situation as him saying, 'see you when we're dead.' I still don't know if it means that or not, but for me it did mean that, and so I kind of took that to mean that for my own song. I do a lot of things like that."

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