"Streets of gold (single edit)" genre: Spiritual Rock
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	I used to call this my "anti-gospel" song. I like gospel music, but it really isn't gold streets, wings, or harps that motivates me towards heaven, it's a chance to hang out with a certain first century religious figure. This is the short version. You have to buy the album to hear the extended version.
	MP3.com CD: Flying Airplane - buy it! CD: Flying Airplane Credits: Words and music by Rob Veith. Performed by Misses & Mystery with Marco Klaue (backing vocals and piano) and Dan Klaue (backing vocals)
	Story Behind the Song STREETS OF GOLD words and music by Rob Veith performed by Misses & Mystery with Marco Klaue, piano and backing vocals Dan Klaue, backing vocals I became a Christian, a serious Christian, in my late teens. I'd done the "give my heart to Jesus" thing as a child, but it never really meant too much to me... and it came to mean less as I got older. As a young Christian in my late teens and early twenties and as an aspiring songwriter, I took a lot of flack from well-meaning friends for not writing "Christian" music. I tried to articulate what I was experiencing in my life of Faith and it made for awful songs. I went through a period of asking myself, "What do I REALLY want to say to God right now?" I looked in contemporary worship music and later in traditional gospel for a kind of liturgy for my personal worship. I found the contemporary worship music lacking in depth and the gospel music kept coming back to streets of gold, angels wings, and all of these afterlife trappings that meant nothing to me. I wrote in my journal one morning in 1995, "I don't need to walk on streets of gold." And I thought, "What do I really want to say to God today?" This song came out within the next half hour or so. It's one of the first real, personal worship songs I wrote and it's since been added to the musical and "liturgical" repetoire of several friends. I performed it first in England with The Dave Linton Band in 1996, introducing it as, "This is what you get when you play gospel music backwards." Nobody got it. DLB recorded a version of it which was adapted for the Mr.E album Yeah Okay Whatever, but dropped at the last minute. IF had another go at it for what became the Good Morning album (the Marco and Dan backing vocals survive from that session). After IF went their separate ways, Marco Klaue regularly performed the song in his solo sets. I invited him to sit in on piano for this recording. Eshinee heard one of the demos before we really knew each other. Sang her harmony part over it and sent me the tape. --Rob Lyrics I don't need to walk those streets of gold. I don't seek golden crowns to hold. I don't care if I feel young or old. I came to see you. I came to see you. I don't need to wear an eagle's wings. I don't need to pluck the gold harp strings. I don't need a place in the choir to sing. I came to see you. I came to see you. CHORUS When my time has come to die, I don't need to see nobody cry, don’t need to see a tunnel of light, or people from the past all clothed in white; I came to see the man from Galilee, let me through. Before God I will bow and see what heaven means to me. I came to see you. I don't need to hear a voice say well done. I don't need a guarantee it will be fun. I just need to know that you’re the one that I've known all of my life. I can to see you. (repeat chorus)

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