Come A Long Way

I kicked in his door at 5 AM

"I've come for my bike" I told the repo man

My 920's gonna take me far today

You can travel for miles and never leave L.A.

I've come a long way

I've gone 500 miles today

I've come along way

And never even left L.A.

I drive by the Plaza where the gay boys pose

Stand in their windows wearing no clothes

I heard the screams of the dying dark

Through the sweet green icing of MacArthur Park

And then I crossed the river into East L.A.

Pescado mojado me encontre

I've given up on rock 'n roll

And I'm saving up for norteno

The river she runs by the railroad track

I swear I'll never take it back

A train, she cries on the midnight hour

All along the Watts Tower

I gunned it down to San Pedro Bay

Watched my ship sail in, watched it sail away

The sun was sinking into the sea

But a ball of fire inside of me

Was burning my motor and driving me hard

Past the big hair on the Boulevard

And up Mulholland where I made the scene

Like the one that took little Jimmy Dean

And then I shimmied up Wilshire like a little silk worm

Past the rodeo and the pachyderm

And then I stopped for coffee at an art cafe

I saw the repo man and made my getaway

Doing the Eagle Rock

Heading for the hills

Try and let my engines cool

And it's not my fault that this town shakes

I saw the falling rocks and I hit my brakes

Now you tow it to the repo man's front door

And you give him these keys, I don't need them no more