[Flight Announcement]
"Flight 101, Super Jet service for Pittsburgh and Los Angeles
will depart from Gate 12. Passengers may proceed into the
gate area for checking..." [faded out echoing]

[Slug]
(Oh yeah) Los Angeles, hot and bothered
Helicopters watch their daughters play parking lot soccer
A whole lot of love from the target's hide
Got a soul looking for a magic carpet ride
Environment, perfect for a hustle
Many people are distracted by the puzzle
And while they're not lookin', the angel got tooken
Welcome to the gray space between fingerprinting and booking
Do your best 'cause the lesson is love
It's enough to keep your head up, another day to get up
Wake up, and let the sun shine through the smog
Free the dialogue 'til everyone believes in God
L.A., to some it's hell, to some it's play
Pay the cover charge and watch what you say
The Barbie doll's caught, body parts come off
And I think she's a he...STOP, look at how it walks
They got the weirdoes, the talent, the beautiful
An arm and a leg for a one-story cubicle
And if the heat don't beat you, the pigs will
Everyone's relaxed, but no one can sit still
Los Angeles... I love it, I love it...
(Lips Glisten... believe 'em.)

"Ooh California highway... California my way."

She said, I'm jealous of Los Angeles
She gets to keep you for a month or two
And I don't know if I can handle this
The thought of being without you.

I know it's cold
But babe, maybe we can
Stay a little longer
Then warm up those toes
The last thing we need
Is to blow our cover
And I know it's tough
To reconsider
What you thought was love
But I'm so proud of all the plans
You're speaking of

Lay with me
Stay with me now, oh
'Cause you are all I think about

She said, I'm jealous of Los Angeles
She gets to keep you for a month or two
And I don't know if I can handle this
The thought of being without you.
She said, I'm sorry for the way I've been
It's so much harder
But I guess we'll see
If I can prove myself wrong
Show you I can be stronger
Than we thought that I would be.

I said, Let's go
And baby, maybe I can show you
What you need to know
And how to cope
The citizens can listen in
But they will never know
About this love
And just how stronger we can be
So what if they don't like the plans
That we've been speaking of?

I'll crave your kiss
While you're gone, oh
So much I'm missing that alone

She said, I'm jealous of Los Angeles
She gets to keep you for a month or two
And I don't know if I can handle this
The thought of being without you.
She said, I'm sorry for the way I've been
It's so much harder
But I guess we'll see
If I can prove myself wrong
Show you I can be stronger
Than we thought that I would be.

And I can commit to change
(I said I'm sorry for the way I've been)
If you can promise to stay the same
(It's so much harder than I thought it'd be)
And never let this fade
(I said I'm sorry for the way I've been)
Baby, just promise to stay the same
(It's so much harder than I thought it'd be)

She said, I'm jealous of Los Angeles
She gets to keep you for a month or two
And now I know that I can handle this
The thought of being without you.
She said, I'm sorry for the way I've been
It's so much harder, but I guess we'll see
If I can prove myself wrong
Show you I can be stronger
Than we thought that I would be.

It's been so long since I've seen her around here
I can't remember if she's real
Summer days spent walking around
And up all night yeah,
Trying too remember if she's real

Well I don't think that I'll be back before nine
It might be mine west coast time
Well I got some friends in LA
Telling me to head out their way
Cause they know I'm in love with the sun

Since the first time I set a glance
On you yeah
I-I knew that she's real
So will that bird that flew you fly you back to yeah
So I'll-I'll know that she's real

Well I don't think that I'll be back before nine
It might be mine west coast time
Well I got some friends in LA
Telling me to head out their way
Cause they know I'm in love with the sun

Cause she's real (x4)

Well I got some friends in LA
Telling me to head out their way
Cause they know I'm in love with the sun (x2)

I want a girl, girl that won't talk back
And a job, job that gives me a slack
And a car, car that won't break down
In the heat of Los Angeles
I want to go, go without a map
Far away, away, I won't get trapped
By the sound, a town, the sun beats down
In the heat of Los Angeles

One more holiday
I will not celebrate
I'm almost desperate
Cause I'm down, I'm down, I'm so beat down

This city's killing me
I want, I want, I want everything
This city's killing me
In the heat of Los Angeles

I want a love, love that won't hit back
Want sex, sex without a catch
Want a face, to trust, to feel, to lust
In the heat of Los Angeles
Want to fuck, fuck, fuck this up
Gonna feel, feel, feel you up
Had enough, enough, enough, enough
In the heat of Los Angeles

This city's killing me
I want, I want, I want everything
This city's killing me
In the heat of Los Angeles
What has become of me?
I want, I want, I want everything
This city's killing me
(I want everything)

Come on, come on
It's alive and breathing
Come on, come on
Come alive today
Come on, come on
It's a heartless beating
The sun is burning down Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Los Angeles

I want a girl, girl that won't talk back
And a job, job that gives me slack
And a car, car that won't break down
In the heat of Los Angeles

Come on, come on
It's alive and breathing
Come on, come on
Come alive today
Come on, come on
It's a heartless beating
The sun is burning down

(This city's killing me)
Come on, come on
It's alive and breathing
Come on, come on
Come alive today
(This city's killing me)
Come on, come on
It's a heartless beating
The sun is burning down Los Angeles (one more holiday)
The sun is burning down Los Angeles (I will not celebrate)
The sun is burning down Los Angeles (one more holiday)
The sun is burning down Los Angeles (I will not celebrate)

Los Angeles
Shameful city
I've been taken by the world below
Los Angeles

No

Here I am again
Watching the world go by
Right before my eyes
All the things I should have known
Have started to hit home

But you won't,
But you won't,
But you won't let go
But you won't,
But you won't let go

Los Angeles
Shameful city
I've been taken by the world that's down below
Los Angeles

A flickering light
Casting a silhouette
Someone I used to know
But that person is gone
I gotta try to keep telling myself I got it under control

But you won't,
But you won't,
But you won't let go
But you won't,
But you won't let go

Los Angeles
Shameful city
I've been taken by the world that's down below
Los Angeles

There's times when I remember when
I'd do it all over again

Los Angeles
Shameful city
I've been taken by the world that's down below
Los Angeles
Shameful city
I've been taken by the world below
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Los Angeles

Je claque la porte de ma maison close
Et tu t’héliportes vers moi
Tes seins sont vides de sens avéré
Et tu t’imagines les restes du palier

Ohh ohh ohh

Je souffle sur les braises de Los Angeles
J’enfume le drame qui m’embrasse
Tu lis entre les lignes qui ne brûlent pas
Et tu m’imagines en un feu de joie

Ohh ohh ohh

each friday night
i've gotta moan
cause it's not right
to be alone
and i'm alone

and so i sleep
wake up at dawn
and leave before
the moon is gone
i know it's wrong
wr-o-o-ong

i've got to find some way out of here
jump on a plane and i disappear
maybe east of ohio
maybe that's where i ought to go

cause living here i've got so down
i guess that's why i've got to leave town
to find some place i haven't found
cause i know that you'll be there waiting

back, back, honey
take me back, baby
i want to stay in l.a.
back, back, baby
take me back, sugar
i want to stay

when i get home
the house is dark
the only sound
is joey's bark

been looking for another place a while
seen every town up in northern cal.
searching further every country mile
i saw new york and i like it's style

but still i've gotta say i love l.a.
i guess that's why i feel i've gotta stay
the hot streets and the summer nights
so lonely

[ "back, back" chorus ]

i know it's sad but i love l.a.
it's even sadder that i'm here to stay
i might vacation on an isle away
but this is where i'll spend my dying day
so now it's time for me get me a wife
and live in town with her for all of my life
i'll understand when my hair turns grey
why i
i live
in l.a.

I met a man
He was a good man
Sailing and shoring
Dancing the beta can-can
Making me foreign
Oh yeah

I want to live in Los Angeles
Not the one in Los Angeles
No, not the one in South California
The got one in South Patagonia

I want to live in Los Angeles
Not the one in Los Angeles
They got a bunch down in Moleville
They got a bunch more still

I want to live in Los Angeles
Not the one is Los Angeles
They got one in twenty-five two five
With a church like a beehive

I want to live in Los Angeles
Not the one in Los Angeles
Counting helicopters on a Saturday night
The symphony of the fair light

I hear them saying Los Angeles
In all the black and white movies
And if you think they star-spangled us
How come we say Los Angeleez?

Chorus
I'll wait in Los Angeles
I'll wait in the pouring sun
No way
For not anyone
No way

I met a man
He was a good man
Sailing and shoring
He got a betatron, man
Talking that foreign
Oh yeah

Chorus

She had to leave
Los Angeles
All her toys wore out in black and her boys had too
She started to hate every nigger and jew
Every mexican that gave her lotta shit
Every homosexual and the idle rich

She had to get out, get out
Get out, get out
Get out, get out

She gets confused
Flying over the dateline her hands turn red
Cause the days change at night
Change in an instant
The days change at night
Change in an instant

She had to leave
Los angeles
She found it hard to say goodbye to her own best friend
She bought a clock on hollywood blvd the day she left
It felt sad, it felt sad
It felt saaaaaaad
She had to get out, get out
Get out, get out
Get out, get out

She gets confused
Flying over the dateline her hands turn red
Cause the days change at night
Change in an instant
The days change at night
Change in an instant
The days change at night
Change in an instant

Oh Los Angeles we leave you now
At the setting of your skies
As we leave the comfort of your ground
With your angels we will fly

Well you carried us in broken dreams
Like a mother does her sons
We were scattered 'cross your dirty streets
We were dying one by one

And you held us in your city lights
When our eyes had lost the stars
And we made our peace with lonely nights
And you healed our broken hearts

Well they say the Big One's gonna come
And you'll fall into the sea
We will know that then your work is done
And your angels will go free

dancing like the nights are down in nashville
but i seem to know the ghosts who like to run
i got a call to go to a late night picture show
so i traded in the darkness and i'm already there
i'm already there

and i'm tryin' to make some friends
so if you see that movie star and me
if you see my picture in a magazine
or if you fall asleep by the bedroom TV

well honey i'm just tryin' to make some sense
outta me

I left a lot of ghosts in San Francisco
and now you wanna say you see through me
but what you wanna see ain't your memories of me
so why you turn around tonight
but i'm already there
i'm already there

and i'm tryin to make some friends
so if you see that movie star and me
if you should see my picture in a magazine
or if you fall asleep while you're watching TV

well honey i'm just trying to make some sense
Los Angeles
boston gets cold this time of year
seems like each day just leaves me numb
i gotta get out of here
go walking in the sun

well if you see that movie star and me
or if you should see my picture in a magazine
or if you fall asleep by the bedroom tv

but honey i'm just trying to make some sense
honey i'm just trying to make some friends
well baby i'm not trying to make amends
for coming to Los Angeles
oh Los Angeles

no more Boston, no more Nashville, no more Oakland
oh baby come on out to the sea
come on take a walk down Sunset with me

oh we gonna get drunk, find up some skinny girls, and go street walking
in Los Angeles!

*and man its a really good place to find yourself a taco