Lyrics:

Well sometimes in the evenings I start to get that feelingLike I'm empty insideI know I'm doin' good now but tonight I'm headed downtownDown by the riversideI sit underneath the freeway with an old friend from the old daysAnd a bottle of wineWell he used to call me ';Big Time';, and he knew someday that I'd shineSaid he'd seen all the signsHe said . .';Keep yourself to yourselfKeep your bedroll dryAnd boy you never can tellWhat the shadows hideKeep ene eve on the groundPick up whatever you find'Cause you've got no place to fallWhen your back's to the wall';He's gettin' old and it's showin' when I asked him how it's goin'He said ';I've seen better I guessI've been rained on, I've been frozen, but this here's the life I've chosenIf it just wasn't for the loneliness';Now this river suits me to a T. but if you're trying to raise a familyIt ain't no place to beThere's a kid down by the dump there, ought to be in grade school somewhereNow he hangs out with meAnd I told him . . .';Well we finished off the bottle and I told him,';Joe I think I ought toBe headed uptown';Well it was late, and I'd been drinkin', drivin' home I got to thinkin''Bout what's been going downCause they're nervous down on Wall Street, but they're trying to keep it upbeatOr maybe they just don't careBut down at the river eyes are burnin' cause they feel the tables turnin'So if you wind up down there . . .