[Verse 1]
Running around like you're front-page news
Lonely eyes and your motorcycle boots
Tattooed heart and your jet-black hair
Running 'round like you don't care

[Chorus]
Take me down
Take me on down the line

[Verse 2]
Well, I was born, baby, with nothing to lose
But the Black man taught me how to sing the blues
Made a little life out of rock 'n' roll
And that crazy California hustle and flow

[Chorus]
Take me down
Take me on down the line
Shake me down
Shake me on down the line

[Verse 3]
I went too fast with that rhythm and booze
Almost ended up dead like all those other fools
Everyone's got some sort of ball and chain
What's life without a little pain?
[Chorus]
Take me down
Take me on down the line
Shake me down
Shake me on down the line

[Bridge]
Living in a Hollywood movie dream (Movie dream, yeah)
I'm still reaching for the stars (Reaching for the stars)
Life gets hard and then it gets good, yeah-hah, yeah
Like I always knew it would

[Verse 1]
Running around like you're front-page news
Lonely eyes and your motorcycle boots
Tattooed heart and your jet-black hair
Running 'round like you don't care

[Chorus]
Take me down
Take me on down the line
Shake me down
Shake me on down the line

[Chorus]
Take me down
Take me on down the line
Shake me down
Shake me on down the line
[Outro]
(Ooh-ooh)
(Ooh-ooh)
(Ooh-ooh)
(Ooh-ooh)
(On down the line)
(On down the line)
(On down the line, yeah)
(Ooh, ooh, on down the line)
(Ooh, ooh, on down the line)
(Oh, yeah)
(Ooh, ooh, on down the line)
(Oh, whoa, oh-whoa)
(Ooh, ooh, on down the line)