The Decemberists - Los Angeles, I'm Yours Lyrics
There is a city by the seaA gentle companyI don't suppose you want toAnd as it tells its sorry taleIn harrowing detailIts hollowness will haunt youIts streets and boulevardsOrphans and oligarchs it hearsA plaintive melodyTruncated symphonyAn ocean's garbled vomit on the shore,Los Angeles, I'm yoursOh ladies, pleasant and demureSallow-cheeked and sureI can see your undiesAnd all the boys you drag aboutAn empty fellow foundFrom Saturdays to MondaysYou hill and valley crowdHanging your trousers down at heelThis is the realest thingAs ancient choirs singA dozen blushing cherubs wheel aboveLos Angeles I loveOh what a rush of wry belan (?)Languor on divansDalliant and daintyBut oh, the smell of burnt cocaineThe dolor and decayIt only makes me crankyOh great calamity,Ditch of iniquity and tearsHow I abhor this placeIts sweet and bitter tasteHas left me wretched, retching on all foursLos Angeles, I'm yours