LA NIGHTS

[Intro]
I'll never forget
The look on her face
The morning I left
I packed my bags
Threw them in the car
"Call you when I get to LA."
And in that moment
I knew she knew
Nothing ever would be the same
I’m another year older
Another year closer
But it feels like yesterday

[Chorus]
Now I'm lost in the city of angels
Far away from my home in the bay
I've forgotten what the hell I was chasing
The isolation’s gonna drive me insane
If you ask me what I was doing here
You'd be met with a thousand yard stare
The sound of her voice ringing in my ears
Just take me far away from here

[Chorus]
On LA Nights, I sit at home
Writing songs by my telephone
It isn't right, it isn't pure
But what'd you come to this city for?
Shooting stars form galaxies
As I look on in disbelief
And if I die, I won't be free
But you don't know what this means to me

[Verse]
Many men have tried and failed
To get the gold, to kill the white whale
But I'm no Indiana, no Captain Ahab
I’m a California kid with a hole in his hands

{Bridge]
String me up, play me like a marionette
I’ll dance for you and do anything you say
Yeah you might never find
A more wretched hive of scum and villiany
Come on down and stake your claim to fame

[Verse]
I'm talking origami women with star-crossed eyes
Trying to get a leg ahead in the race
Hanging on the edge of a thousand lies
Something tells me I should pick up the pace

[Outro]
On LA Nights, I sit at home
Writing songs by my telephone
It isn’t right, it isn't pure
But what'd you come to this city for?
Shooting stars form galaxies
As I look on in disbelief
And if I die, then I'll be free
But you don’t know, know, know, know (Woah, woah, woah, woah, woah)