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Downtown Lyrics by Nocando

The Impatient EP

2004

[Intro: Dave Chappelle]
\nI didn't know he was taking me to the ghetto at first. I started looking out the window, I was like, "What the fuck? There was a gun store, gun store, liquor store, gun store. "Where the fuck you takin' me?!
\n
\n[Verse 1]
\nYou know the way it is, the roads are paved in piss
\nDowntown, hey that's where Satan is
\nAnd broken glass, too, and floatin' trash, too
\nThe center of LA smells like open ass, whoo!
\nYou meet the youngest girls with the oldest tattoos
\nAnd old women with no wisdom to pass you
\nYou can ride around and take a stop in Chinatown
\nOr you can go and watch a bum fight title bout
\nOr you can just relax, or you can wonder most of the bums are black and got a strong love for crack
\nIt's somethin' different, apartment buildings rats and roaches wouldn't live in
\nOne bedroom, no kitchen
\nComin' from nineteen-thirty, carpet's nice and dirty
\nDon't drink the tap water because you might get scurvy
\nHepatitis, herpes, they pass it around
\nAnd don't slip there's a lot of broken glass on the ground
\n
\n[Chorus]
\nMother Earth's got a rash and they call it downtown
\nIf you're knee-deep in trash, then you're probably downtown
\nEvery car [?] in the streets of downtown
\nEverybody low on cash, LA city downtown
\nWe're the ten, the 1-10 and the [?]
\nBut the traffic's so bad, we take the side streets
\nWe're the ten, the 1-10, and the [?]
\nDowntown, LA, let's go sightsee
\n
\n[Verse 2]
\nSome buildings scrap the sky and freeways seem to fascinate the eye
\nAnd sometimes Skid Row makes me sigh
\nEverybody's high and beggin' for a dollar twenty-five
\nTough time, they're hopin' to get by
\nI drop a little change, see I'd have be a stand-up comic to complain
\nAbout my awkward little pain
\nI walk on the terrain, I walk with the same
\nI've seen so many inner coffins without a grave
\nSome don't have a clue, but some can see it all from their office building view
\nThere's women and children, too
\nSuckin' the stale air, don't get welfare
\nThere's no home address, how the hell they can get mail there?
\nTwin towers, baby, my cousin's in jail there
\nTwenty-three hours a day he sits in a cell there
\nWell there, isn't that lovely, downtown in the summer-y, wonderful and ugly
\n
\n[Chorus]
\nMother Earth's got a rash and they call it downtown
\nIf you're knee-deep in trash, then you're probably downtown
\nEvery car [?] in the streets of downtown
\nEverybody low on cash, LA city downtown
\nWe're the ten, the 1-10 and the [?]
\nBut the traffic's so bad, we take the side streets
\nWe're the ten, the 1-10, and the [?]
\nDowntown, LA, let's go sightsee\n\n
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"Downtown" appears on "The Impatient EP" in 2004.

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