Kicked in his door at 5 A.M.   "I've come for my bike" I told the repo man   My 920's gonna take me far today   You can travel for miles and never leave L.A.      I've come a long way   I've come a long way   I've gone five hundred miles today   I've come a long way   I've come along way   And never even left L.A.      I drive by the Plaza where the gay boys pose   Stand in their windows wearing no clothes   I heard the screams of the dying dark   Through the sweet green icing of MacArthur Park      And then I crossed the river into East L.A.   Pescado mojado me encontre   And I've given up on rock 'n roll   And I'm saving up for norteno      The river she runs by the railroad tracks   I swear I'll never take it back   A train, she cries on the midnight hour   All along the Watts Tower, oh      I've come a long way   I've come a long way   I've gone five hundred miles today   I've come a long way   I've come along way   And never even left L.A.      I gunned it down to San Pedro Bay   Watched my ship sail in, watched her sail away   The sun was sinking into the sea   But a ball of fire inside of me      Was burning my motor and driving me hard   Past the big hair on the Boulevard   And up Mulholland where I made the scene   Like the one that took little Jimmy Dean      And then I shimmied up Wilshire like a little silk worm   Past the rodeo and the pachyderm   And then I stopped for coffee at an art cafe   I saw the repo man and made my getaway      Doing the Eagle Rock, heading for the hills   Oh, try to let my engines cool   And it is not my fault that this town shakes   I saw the falling rock and I hit my brakes      I've come a long way   I've come a long way   I've gone five hundred miles today   I've come a long way   I've come along way   And never even left L.A.      Now you tow it to the repo man's front door   And you give him these keys, I don't need them no more   You tow it to the repo man's front door   And you give him these keys, I don't need them no more      I've come a long way   I've come a long way   I've gone five hundred miles today   I've come a long way   I've come along way   And never even left L.A.      I've come a long way   I've come a long way   I've gone five hundred miles today   I've come a long way   I've come along way   And never even left L.A.      And never even left L.A.   And never even left L.A.