6th Avenue Heartache | Sirens ring, shots ring out A stranger cries, screams out loud I had my world strapped against my back I held my hands, never knew how to act And the same black line that was drawn on you Was drawn on me And now it's drawn me in 6th Avenue heartache Below me there was a homeless man Singin' songs I knew complete On the steps alone, his guitar in hand It's fifty years, stood where he stands Now walkin' home on those streets The river winds they move my feet Subway steam, like silhouettes in dreams They stood by me, just like moonbeams Looked out the window, down upon that street And gone like midnight was that man But I see his six strings laid against that wall And all his things, they all look so small I got my fingers crossed on a shooting star Just like me-just moved on

 
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words and music by Jakob Dylan
appears on Bringing Down the Horse

-Jakob wrote this song in 1988 when he was only 18 years old, and considers it to be his first real song
-Video:1996,  shot in NYC by David Fincher 
[Predominantly a movie director, Fincher as also directed films such as, the third installment of "Alien," "Seven," "The Game," and "Fight Club.]
First video and single released off of Bringing Down the Horse
-The song was originally written for the first CD, but the record company wouldn't let them include it with the album.
-Mike Campbell from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers provided the slide guitar part featured in "6th Avenue Heartache."

-"You know, I don't exactly remember how it happened. He just got a tape before the record
was out. He got a preview of the record -an advance copy. He had heard that was going to be the new single, and he actually called us and said he was interested in doing it, if we were interested. So we thought about it and we were like, what else have you done..."-Jakob, joking on how David Fincher came to direct "6th Avenue Heartache."

(excerpt from RS 852)
-A decade after that Australian tour, Campbell saw Jakob on the road again when the Wallflowers opened some shows for Petty and the Heartbreakers at the Fillmore in San Francisco in 1997. “Jakob came into the sound check,” Campbell relates,” and the first thing out of his mouth was, `I want to thank you for giving me a career with that guitar lick [in “6th Avenue Heartache”].'  “It was really sweet,” Campbell says. “I just smiled and said, `You're doing fine on your own.'”