There is a city by the sea
a gentle company
I don’t suppose you want to?
And as it tells it’s sorry tale
in harrowing detail
it’s hollowness will haunt you.
It speaks in boulevards
orphans and oligarchs
it hears a plaintive melody, trunchated symphony
an ocean’s gargled vomit on the shore
Los Angeles, I’m yours
Oh ladies pleasant and demure
sallow cheeked and sure
I can see your undies
And all the boys you drag about
an empty fallow fount
from Saturdays to Mondays
You hill and valley crowd
hanging your trousers down at heel
this is the realest thing
as ancient choirs sing
a dozen blushing cherubs wheel above
Los Angeles, I love.
Oh what a rush of ripe elan
lanquor on divans
dalliant and dainty
but oh the smell of burnt cocaine
the dolor and decay
it only makes me cranky
oh great calamity
ditch of iniquity and tears
how I abhor this place
it’s sweet and bitter taste
has left me wretched, retching on all fours
Los Angeles, I’m yours
