CHINESE CIGARETTES                                        © Jennifer Mandel

Take me down to the heart of the city
buy me a beer in that dive downtown
tell me you love me underneath a streetlamp
and I won’t say you never take me anywhere
 
you took me down to the dark of the subway
you told me things that you’d never said before
and I believed you when you told me I was pretty
so I won’t say you never told me anything
 
There’s a chance that in a while you won’t remember anything
there's a chance that in a while you won’t even know my name
But do you know when you go that I’ll never forget
that you gave me your chinese cigarettes
 
You’ll climb on that subway and ride off through the city
I might have a beer in that dive downtown
The neon will flicker on the photo of our last goodbye
And I won’t say you never gave me anything
 
There’s a chance that in a while you won’t remember anything
there's a chance that in a while you won’t even know my name
But do you  know when you go that I’ll never forget
that  you gave me  your chinese cigarettes

L.A. RIVER

I was born in the city of angels

by the sea, by the sea

then I followed the graffiti tatooed on the boulevard

knowing someday that old L.A. River would deliver me

When the lake of silver reflects on the sky above

and the golden hills surrounding the water shine down with a burning love

then i'll follow the concrete to the river grown over with trees

and someday that old L. A. River will deliver me

It will deliver me

it will deliver

i know that someday that old L.A. River will deliver me

Someday I'll take my hands off the steering wheel

and I'll let my car drift down that river of steel

then the rays of golden sunshine will carry me away

and someday that old L.A. River will deliver me

It will deliver me

It will deliver me

I know that someday that old L.A. River will deliver me

Then I'll float downstream on the fumes of a thousand cars

and I'll gaze up through the haze at millions of fading stars

then I'll climb that golden stairway to the hills and the heavens so free

and someday that old L.A. River, it will deliver me

It will deliver me

It will deliver me

I know that someday that old L.A. River will deliver me