Downtown L.A. is a depressing place 洛杉矶市中心是一个令人沮丧的地方

You can see young men with deep lines in their face 你可以看到年轻人在他们的脸上深深的皱纹

They could all be something if somebody cared 他们都可能成为的东西，如果有人关心

But nobody knows they're even down there 但是，没有人知道他们甚至有下降

Old woman walking with a sack on her back 老妇人走在她后面一麻袋

Picking up the garbage people put out back 拿起垃圾的人放出来回

Men down there trying to walk the line 男人那里试图走线

Trading their soul for a bottle of wine 交易他们的灵魂为一瓶酒

   

In the inner city it ain't no good 内城是不是没有好

It's a long, long way from Hollywood 这是从好莱坞很长，很长的路要走

Bad kind of people got a hold of the street 坏种人得到了保持街道

They got something that the poor people need 他们得到的东西，穷人需要

At two in the morning they bust your head 在凌晨两点，他们猛击头部

Fat chance walking you'll end up dead 发机会走到头来你会死的

It' the law of the jungle with a gun and a knife 这是丛林法则与枪和一把刀

If you stay long enough you lose your life 如果你留足够长的时间，你失去了你的生活

   

Man down there he couldn't be lying 男子倒在那里，他不能撒谎

He was sleeping in the street and he couldn't keep from crying 他睡在大街上，他会忍不住哭

Said he'd been there for twenty one years 说他会在那里为21年

Through the bars and the brawls and the blues and the tears 通过酒吧的斗殴和蓝调和眼泪

Prop up the front the back falls down 撑起正面背面落下

All around the canyons of L.A. town 各地洛杉矶镇峡谷

When he asked me for a dollar I looked him in his face 当他问我要一块钱我看着他，他的脸

Downtown L.A. is a depressing place 洛杉矶市中心是一个令人沮丧的地方