Downtown L.A. Songtext
von J.J. Cale

Hey, downtown LA is a depressing place
You can see young men with deep lines in their face
All need something and somebody cares
But nobody knows they′re even down there
Old woman walking with a sack on her back
Picking up garbage people put out back
Men down there trying to walk the line
Selling their soul for a bottle of wine

Indiana City it ain't no good
It′s a long long way from Hollywood
The bad kind of people got a hold of the street
They got something that the poor people need
They pack up the front and the back falls down
All around the canyons of LA town
It's the law of the jungle with a gun and a knife
If you stay long enough you lose your life


Indiana City it ain't no good
It′s a long long way from Hollywood
The bad kind of people got a hold of the street
They got something that the poor people need
They pack up the front and the back falls down
All around the canyons of LA town
It′s the law of the jungle with a gun and a knife
If you stay long enough you lose your life

There's always been a blues revival
Blues has always come- it never comes up and becomes mainstream
But from time to time it almost disappears
And there′s only a few people doing it
Then all at once it kinda- all at once
The next generation discovers the blues
And they all kind of go "Wow, man", you know
So I would say that as there's always been a blues revival
There happens to be one going on right now