Capo I


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  Down on Pico and Fedora.
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  Back in 1983
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 All the cholos on the corner
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Hid their pistols in the trees

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  El Funny Clown lived off of Sunset
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  On a street called Benton Way
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 There were blood satins on the sidewalk
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But the rain washed them away

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On the mean streets of L.A.

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All those teenage summer days

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  I took the bus way down to Venice
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  Went bodysurfing in the waves
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 Staring out at the horizon
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On those teenage summer days

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On the mean streets of L.A.

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All those teenage summer days

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  My daddy was a trucker
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  Hauling freight 12 hours a day
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 Sometimes he'd take me down to Vernon
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Or the shipyards in South Bay

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On the mean streets of L.A.

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All those teenage summer days

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