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He lay his blanket underneath the freeway 
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As the evening sky grew dark 
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Took a sniff of toncho from his coke can
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And headed through Balboa Park 
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Where the men in Mercedes 
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Come nightly to employ 
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In the cool San Diego evening 
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The services of the border boys 

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He grew up near the zona norte 
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With the hustlers and smugglers he hung out with 
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He swallowed their balloons of cocaine 
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Brought 'em cross the 12th street strip 
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Sleeping in a shelter 
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If the night got too cold 
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Runnin' from the migra 
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Of the border patrol 

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Past the Salvage yard 'cross the train tracks 
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And in through the storm drain 
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They stretched their blankets out neath the freeway 
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And each one took a name 
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There was x-man and cochese 
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Little spider his sneakers covered in river mud 
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They come north to California 
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End up with the poison in their blood 

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He did what he had to do for money 
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Sometimes he sent home what he could spare 
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The rest went to hi-top sneakers and toncho 
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And jeans like the gavatchos wear 
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One night the border patrol swept 12th street 
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A big car come fast down the boulevard 
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Spider stood caught in it's headlights 
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Got hit and went down hard 
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As the car sped away spider held his stomach 
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Limped to his blanket 'neath the underpass 
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Lie there tasting his own blood on his tongue 
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Closed his eyes and listened to the cars 
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Rushin by so fast 

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