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Well sometimes in the evenings i start to get that feeling |
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Like i'm empty inside |
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I know i'm doin' good now but tonight i'm headed downtown |
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Down by the riverside |
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I sit underneath the freeway with an old friend from the old days |
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And a bottle of wine |
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Well he used to call me 'big time', and he knew someday that i'd shine |
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Said he'd seen all the signs |
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He said . . |
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'keep yourself to yourself |
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Keep your bedroll dry |
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And boy you never can tell |
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What the shadows hide |
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Keep ene eve on the ground |
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Pick up whatever you find |
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'cause you've got no place to fall |
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When your back's to the wall' |
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He's gettin' old and it's showin' when i asked him how it's goin' |
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He said 'i've seen better i guess |
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I've been rained on, i've been frozen, but this here's the life i've chosen |
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If it just wasn't for the loneliness' |
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Now this river suits me to a t. but if you're trying to raise a family |
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It ain't no place to be |
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There's a kid down by the dump there, ought to be in grade school somewhere |
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Now he hangs out with me |
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And i told him . . .' |
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Well we finished off the bottle and i told him,'joe i think i ought to |
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Be headed uptown' |
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Well it was late, and i'd been drinkin', drivin' home i got to thinkin' |
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'bout what's been going down |
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Cause they're nervous down on wall street, but they're trying to keep it upbeat |
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Or maybe they just don't care |
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But down at the river eyes are burnin' cause they feel the tables turnin' |
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So if you wind up down there . . . |
