Where the air twists and shimmers in the heat   Love take me down, love take me down   Where a pair of lonely ones can always meet   Love take me down, love take me down where I'm longing to be      Love take me down to the streets, love take me down to the streets   Cause when he don't get fed at home, still gotta give your dog his bone   Take our lovin' to the streets   Come on!      Here we stand, open and honest of our deeds   Love take me down, love take me down   I need you but you need something special first from me   Love take me down where I'm so apt to be      Love take me down to the streets, love take me down to the streets   Cause when the love don't work at home, you gotta find it on the road   Take our lovin' to the streets      To the washes and the bridges, to the shadows in the alleys, to the places where the boogaloo sleeps   We do things quite neatly, things that we could never speak of   Cause we've got our love and our secret to keep, ooh yeah      It's time for now, the fire is out as you can see   Love took me down, love took me down   But I'll be back and you've got places to be   Love take me down where I'm longing to be      Love take me down to the streets, love take me down to the streets   Love take me down to the streets (down, down, down)   Love take me down to the streets (love take me down, love take me down)   Love take me down to the streets (bangin' on a streetlight, bangin' on a streetlight)   Love take me down to the streets (bangin' on a streetlight, bangin' on a streetlight)   Love take me down to the streets (bangin' on a streetlight, bangin' on a streetlight)   Love take me down to your streetlight