Lawless Avenues-Jackson Browne

[ti:Lawless Avenues] [ar:Jackson Browne] [al:The Very Best Of Jackson Browne] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Lawless Avenues - Jackson Browne (杰克逊·布朗) [00:14.03]Papa hit him mama kissed him [00:17.01]Made him go to catechism [00:21.24]With the sisters in their black and white [00:26.42]And all the time those city streets [00:29.61]Were teaching him another kind of wisdom [00:33.93]When to run and when to fight [00:36.95] [00:39.12]Up at the playground after school [00:42.19]Listening to tales of the prison system [00:49.20]And those lawless avenues [00:58.17]Dawn on a half darkened street [01:00.86] [01:04.74]A child's footsteps repeat [01:10.91]And something there turns them [01:14.25]Down those lawless avenues [01:23.57]Silent joe went down so bad [01:26.44]He was the strongest fighter the avenues had [01:30.48]Stabbed in the chest--he went down swinging [01:36.11]Someone from some other part of town [01:39.41]No one even seen it coming down [01:42.52]And you don't hear no church bells ringing [01:47.95]And in the violent night the police light [01:51.07]Sweeps across the lots and the yards [01:55.22]Following those lawless avenues [01:58.95] [02:04.62]Down on a half darkened street [02:07.28] [02:11.00]Armies advance and retreat [02:14.78] [02:17.75]And struggle to take control [02:20.18]From those lawless avenues [02:24.93] [02:49.10]Manuelito's sister rosa [02:50.41] [02:52.60]Ran away with a surfer from hermosa [02:55.10]Manuelito cuida a rosa [02:56.58]Hay mira como estan las cosas [02:58.14]Manuelito take care of rosa [02:59.75]--look at how things are [03:01.34]But who could blame her after she saw [03:05.16]Every boy die who could have gotten close to her [03:09.59]Rosa es joven u solo quiere [03:12.90]Ver la belleza del mundo [03:14.48]"you gotta fight for what you want in this life" [03:17.82]Just before they shipped him overseas to 'nam [03:20.82]Otra guerra sin razon [03:23.03]Otra guerra sin fin sin honor [03:24.51]Another war without reason [03:25.44]Another war without end without honor [03:26.82]And she was fighting to understand [03:28.77] [03:30.23]When they shipped manuelito's body home [03:35.28]All she heard was one more shot [03:39.87]Echoing down lawless avenues [03:45.16]Hoy amigo tal igual como ayer [03:49.43]La lucha en el barrio no cambia [03:51.98] [03:53.85]Nuestros hijos son los que han de crecer [03:58.29]Por ley de la calle viviendo entre abrazos [04:03.40]Y chingazos [04:05.43] [04:33.12]Down on a half darkened street [04:35.33] [04:39.09]Fathers' and sons' lives repeat [04:45.15]And something there turns them [04:48.74]Down those lawless avenues [04:53.25] [04:58.24]En el calor de la calle [05:02.22](in the heat of the street) [05:03.59]Buscan valor en la calle [05:08.12](looking for valor in the street) [05:10.59]Hasta final de la calle [05:14.13](till the end of the street) [05:16.04]Buscan valor en la calle [05:20.50](looking for valor in the street)