Take the cable car to Jackson
It's a Friday night affair
Madam Rose's legendary honeycombWith an ounce of intuition
You can feel it in the air
This Oakland boy has found a place to roamAnd unfamiliar faces
Watch every move you make
And at midnight gangs are snaking through the alleyway
Where they used to playDown in Chinatown..woah
Where the nights are always longer than the days
Down in Chinatown..woah
With the dragon eyes that overlook the bay
Hey yeahThere's a layer below the city
Where the bottom dwellers go
Trying to buy that thrill they've never knownA woman pours the absinth
As the paper lanterns glow
I think this Jones is better left aloneThe corridors are endless
It's not hard to lose your way
While old men smoke and gamble into Saturday
Do you want to play?Down in Chinatown..woah
Where the nights are always longer than the days
Down in Chinatown..woah
With the dragon eyes that overlook the bay
Hey yeah(Instrumental)If the California street line
Is the only way you know
You might want to play it safe
Down on Grant Avenue
Where it waits for youDown in Chinatown..woah
Where the nights are always longer than the days
Down in Chinatown..woah
With the dragon eyes that overlook the bay
Hey yeah