Teenage Summer Days

Down on Pico and Fedora

Back in 1983

All the cholos on the corner

Hid their pistols in the treesEl Funny Clown lived off of Sunset

On a street called Benton Way

There were blood satins on the sidewalk

But the rain washed them awayOn the mean streets of L.A.

All those teenage summer daysWe took the bus way down to Venice

Went bodysurfing in the waves

Staring out at the horizon

On those teenage summer daysOn the mean streets of L.A.

All those teenage summer daysMy daddy was a trucker

Hauling freight 12 hours a day

Sometimes he'd take me down to Vernon

Or the shipyards in South BayOn those teenage summer days

On the mean streets of L.A.