Downtown L.A.-J.J. Cale

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[00:00.00]Downtown L.A. - J.J. Cale
[00:25.80]Downtown L.A. is a depressing place
[00:28.56]You can see young men with deep lines in their face
[00:31.27]They could all be something if somebody cared
[00:34.00]But nobody knows they're even down there
[00:37.07]Old woman walking with a sack on her back
[00:39.81]Picking up the garbage people put out back
[00:42.90]Men down there trying to walk the line
[00:45.53]Trading their soul for a bottle of wine
[00:50.79]In the inner city it ain't no good
[00:53.38]It's a long, long way from Hollywood
[00:56.49]Bad kind of people got a hold of the street
[00:59.11]They got something that the poor people need
[01:02.07]At two in the morning they bust your head
[01:04.81]Fat chance walking you'll end up dead
[01:07.58]It' the law of the jungle with a gun and a knife
[01:10.33]If you stay long enough you lose your life
[01:40.89]Man down there he couldn't be lying
[01:43.34]He was sleeping in the street and
[01:45.15]He couldn't keep from crying
[01:46.69]Said he'd been there for twenty one years
[01:49.28]Through the bars and the brawls and
[01:51.10]The blues and the tears
[01:52.26]Prop up the front the back falls down
[01:55.22]All around the canyons of L.A. town
[01:58.19]When he asked me for a dollar
[02:00.01]I looked him in his face
[02:01.14]Downtown L.A. is a depressing place