Yeah
Check one two
Let me take you back
I was seven when I first saw the blood
On the sidewalk after midnight
Daddy never came home that night
Momma told me keep my head down
But the streets don't teach you how to hide
They just teach you how to fight
By fifteen I learned to hold my tongue
When the cops pulled me over for just walking wrong
Felt the cold steel in my hand
When the gang said you gotta be a man
Saw my brother go down on the corner store floor
That was the night I couldn't cry no more
The judge said eighteen years that is the price
For a life that never had a chance to be nice
I sat in the cell and stared at the wall
And I asked myself who am I after all
Sunset on the boulevard
I can still feel the scars
But I let the anger go
Let the west wind blow
Sunset on the boulevard
I can still feel the scars
But I let the anger go
I let the west wind blow
Three years in I started to read
Found a book that said you can be free
Not from the bars but from the chain in your mind
That was the first time I felt kind of kind
To the kid who used to be me
I wrote a letter I never could send
Told myself this is where it begins
Parole board said you got a chance
I said I got a life I gotta advance
Stepped out with a duffel bag and a worn out pair
Of the same shoes walked me through the despair
I see my momma grey but still standing tall
She said son you ain't gotta fall no more
I got a job washing dishes at a diner by the beach
Every night I let the ocean reach
Deep into the part I used to hide
I'm learning to stand on the other side
Sunset on the boulevard
I can still feel the scars
But I let the anger go
Let the west wind blow
Sunset on the boulevard
I can still feel the scars
But I let the anger go
I let the west wind blow
I don't forget the way the old world taste
But I don't gotta live in that waste
I shake the hand of the man I used to fear
And I tell him it's alright we clear
Sunset on the boulevard
I can still feel the scars
But I let the anger go
Let the west wind blow
Sunset on the boulevard
I can still feel the scars
But I let the anger go
I let the west wind blow
Yeah
West wind blow
I let it go
