Downtown L. A. Lyrics - J. J. Cale

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 

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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 

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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