《Lawless Avenues》歌词

[00:00:00] Lawless Avenues - Jackson Browne (杰克逊·布朗)

[00:00:14] Papa hit him mama kissed him

[00:00:17] Made him go to catechism

[00:00:21] With the sisters in their black and white

[00:00:26] And all the time those city streets

[00:00:29] Were teaching him another kind of wisdom

[00:00:33] When to run and when to fight

[00:00:39] Up at the playground after school

[00:00:42] Listening to tales of the prison system

[00:00:49] And those lawless avenues

[00:00:58] Dawn on a half darkened street

[00:01:04] A child's footsteps repeat

[00:01:10] And something there turns them

[00:01:14] Down those lawless avenues

[00:01:23] Silent joe went down so bad

[00:01:26] He was the strongest fighter the avenues had

[00:01:30] Stabbed in the chest--he went down swinging

[00:01:36] Someone from some other part of town

[00:01:39] No one even seen it coming down

[00:01:42] And you don't hear no church bells ringing

[00:01:47] And in the violent night the police light

[00:01:51] Sweeps across the lots and the yards

[00:01:55] Following those lawless avenues

[00:02:04] Down on a half darkened street

[00:02:11] Armies advance and retreat

[00:02:17] And struggle to take control

[00:02:20] From those lawless avenues

[00:02:49] Manuelito's sister rosa

[00:02:52] Ran away with a surfer from hermosa

[00:02:55] Manuelito cuida a rosa

[00:02:56] Hay mira como estan las cosas

[00:02:58] Manuelito take care of rosa

[00:02:59] --look at how things are

[00:03:01] But who could blame her after she saw

[00:03:05] Every boy die who could have gotten close to her

[00:03:09] Rosa es joven u solo quiere

[00:03:12] Ver la belleza del mundo

[00:03:14] "you gotta fight for what you want in this life"

[00:03:17] Just before they shipped him overseas to 'nam

[00:03:20] Otra guerra sin razon

[00:03:23] Otra guerra sin fin sin honor

[00:03:24] Another war without reason

[00:03:25] Another war without end without honor

[00:03:26] And she was fighting to understand

[00:03:30] When they shipped manuelito's body home

[00:03:35] All she heard was one more shot

[00:03:39] Echoing down lawless avenues

[00:03:45] Hoy amigo tal igual como ayer

[00:03:49] La lucha en el barrio no cambia

[00:03:53] Nuestros hijos son los que han de crecer

[00:03:58] Por ley de la calle viviendo entre abrazos

[00:04:03] Y chingazos

[00:04:33] Down on a half darkened street

[00:04:39] Fathers' and sons' lives repeat

[00:04:45] And something there turns them

[00:04:48] Down those lawless avenues

[00:04:58] En el calor de la calle

[00:05:02] (in the heat of the street)

[00:05:03] Buscan valor en la calle

[00:05:08] (looking for valor in the street)

[00:05:10] Hasta final de la calle

[00:05:14] (till the end of the street)

[00:05:16] Buscan valor en la calle

[00:05:20] (looking for valor in the street)