Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Lawless Avenues , by - Jackson Browne. Release date: 04.10.2005
Song language: English
Lawless Avenues |
| Papa hit him, Mama kissed him |
| Made him go to Catechism |
| With the sisters in their black and white |
| And all the time those city streets |
| Were teaching him another kind of wisdom |
| When to run and when to fight |
| Up at the playground after school |
| Listening to tales of the prison system |
| And those lawless avenues |
| Dawn on a half darkened street |
| A child’s footsteps repeat |
| And something there turns them |
| Down those lawless avenues |
| Silent Joe went down so bad |
| He was the strongest fighter the avenues had |
| Stabbed in the chest--he went down swinging |
| Someone from some other part of town |
| No one even seen it coming down |
| And you don’t hear no church bells ringing |
| And in the violent night the police light |
| Sweeps across the lots and the yards |
| Following those lawless avenues |
| Down on a half darkened street |
| Armies advance and retreat |
| And struggle to take control |
| From those lawless avenues |
| Manuelito’s sister Rosa |
| Ran away with a surfer from Hermosa |
| Manuelito, cuida a Rosa |
| Hay mira como estan las cosas! |
| (Manuelito take care of Rosa |
| --Look at how things are) |
| But who could blame her after she saw |
| Every boy die who could have gotten close to her |
| Rosa es joven u solo quiere |
| Ver la belleza del mundo |
| (Rosa is young and only wants |
| To see the beauty of the world) |
| Manuel said-- |
| «You gotta fight for what you want in this life» |
| Just before they shipped him overseas to 'Nam |
| Otra guerra sin razon |
| Otra guerra sin fin, sin honor |
| (Another war without reason |
| Another war without end, without honor) |
| And she was fighting to understand |
| When they shipped Manuelito’s body home |
| All she heard was one more shot |
| Echoing down lawless avenues |
| Hoy amigo, tal igual como ayer |
| La lucha en el barrio no cambia |
| Nuestros hijos son los que han de crecer |
| Por ley de la calle, viviendo entre abrazos |
| Y chingazos |
| (Today my friend, just like yesterday |
| The struggle in the barrio doesn’t change |
| Our children are the ones to grow up |
| By the law of the street |
| Living between hugs and blows) |
| Down on a half darkened street |
| Fathers' and sons' lives repeat |
| And something there turns them |
| Down those lawless avenues |
| En el calor de la calle |
| (In the heat of the street) |
| Buscan valor en la calle |
| (Looking for valor in the street) |
| Hasta final de la calle |
| (Till the end of the street) |