Cale Jj Downtown L A (j J Cale) Lyrics

Downtown L A (j J Cale) Lyrics

Downtown L.A. is a depressing place

 You can see young men with deep lines in their face

 They could all be something if somebody cared

 But nobody knows they're even down there

 Old woman walking with a sack on her back

 Picking up the garbage people put out back

 Men down there trying to walk the line

 Trading their soul for a bottle of wine

 

 In the inner city it ain't no good

 It's a long, long way from Hollywood

 Bad kind of people got a hold of the street

 They got something that the poor people need

 At two in the morning they bust your head

 Fat chance walking you'll end up dead

 It's the law of the jungle with a gun and a knife

 If you stay long enough you lose your life

 

 Man down there he couldn't be lying

 He was sleeping in the street and he couldn't keep from crying

 Said he'd been there for twenty one years

 Through the bars and the brawls and the blues and the tears

 Prop up the front the back falls down

 All around the canyons of L.A. town

 When he asked me for a dollar I looked him in his face

 Downtown L.A. is a depressing place.