[00:16.86]Well sometimes in the evenings i start to get that feeling
[00:35.85]Like i'm empty inside
[00:40.41]I know i'm doin' good now but tonight i'm headed downtown
[00:44.31]Down by the riverside
[00:47.88]I sit underneath the freeway with an old friend from the old days
[00:52.20]And a bottle of wine
[00:53.76]Well he used to call me 'big time', and he knew someday that i'd shine
[01:00.21]Said he'd seen all the signs
[01:02.82]He said . .
[01:03.09]'keep yourself to yourself
[01:07.20]Keep your bedroll dry
[01:11.04]And boy you never can tell
[01:12.60]What the shadows hide
[01:19.77]Keep ene eve on the ground
[01:22.74]Pick up whatever you find
[01:24.42]'cause you've got no place to fall
[01:30.99]When your back's to the wall'
[01:32.55]He's gettin' old and it's showin' when i asked him how it's goin'
[01:51.57]He said 'i've seen better i guess
[01:55.62]I've been rained on, i've been frozen, but this here's the life i've chosen
[01:59.94]If it just wasn't for the loneliness'
[02:02.10]Now this river suits me to a t. but if you're trying to raise a family
[02:08.13]It ain't no place to be
[02:11.55]There's a kid down by the dump there, ought to be in grade school somewhere
[02:15.48]Now he hangs out with me
[02:17.76]And i told him . . .'
[02:39.54]Well we finished off the bottle and i told him,'joe i think i ought to
[03:53.52]Be headed uptown'
[03:55.26]Well it was late, and i'd been drinkin', drivin' home i got to thinkin'
[04:01.44]'bout what's been going down
[04:02.94]Cause they're nervous down on wall street, but they're trying to keep it upbeat
[04:09.09]Or maybe they just don't care
[04:12.84]But down at the river eyes are burnin' cause they feel the tables turnin'
[04:16.89]So if you wind up down there . . .