From Silver Lake
Did you see our brother
He was here the other day
But he only came to say that he was leaving
Did you see his lady
She was looking where hed gone
But she wasnt letting on that she was grieving
Shes bound to go
Perhaps shell find him waiting for his boat in some city far away
Shes bound to go
Lately I remember afternoons of smoke and wine
There was nothing we could find but peace and pleasure
And with a smile he told me
That he wanted just to be on his way across the sea no man can measure
He wont be back,
And the sun may find him sleeping in the dust of some ruin far away
He wont be back
Early today as I watched while the skyline was shaking
I heard a rumbling
Early today the mechanical city was waking
And I ran out stumbling, mumbling
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song performed by Jackson Browne
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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 childs 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 dont hear no church bells ringing
And in the violent night the police light
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song performed by Jackson Browne
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