Down, Down, Down
My father played harmonica so there was something comforting and correct about being in a band with a harmonica player, and why meeting Clay Goldstein at The 8121, was such a fortuitous thing.
I wouldn’t be surprised if this was the first song we played together, although I do seem to remember us playing the Little Walter song “Boom Boom Out Go The Lights” a lot so maybe we played that first.
And since Clay and I both took big inspiration from Springsteen it was easy for us to fall into a Clarence & Bruce schtick that mostly always worked.
The lyrics on this one are as authentic (I was living just off Sunset Boulevard – at Curson) as they are immature (“Gee wiz! Poverty!”) which is a fair description of myself as an artist at this time.
This song appears in the credits of the Debbie Harry film “Intimate Stranger” thanks to Walt Vincent who passed it on to the editor and got us on our first soundtrack.
Lyrics
DOWN, DOWN, DOWN
It’s a blue night on sunset
The junkies are in bloom
A prostitute is upset
She got kicked out of her room
She just goes down, down, down
and never stops
She gets low enough
she thinks she’ll wind up at the top
And in a bar room down an alley
where the well drinks all flow cheap
there is a drunkard by the name of O’Malley
His bar tab is so steep
that he just goes down, down, down
and he never stops
He gets low enough
he thinks he’ll wind up at the top
Well if you wanted to find me
you’ve come to the right place
So take a walk on by me
and wipe that smile off your face
’cause you’re going down
Well, life can be so deep
that a man can surely drown
if he falls asleep
on the wrong side of town
You just go down, down, down
and never stop
He gets low enough
he’s gonna wind up at the top
and fall off…
Credits
Written by Andras Jones
Andras Jones – Vocals & Acoustic Guitar
Clay Goldstein – Harmonica
Produced & Engineered by Billy Lincoln
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