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Los Angeles, I'm Yours
Decemberists

There is a city by the sea

A gentle company

I don't suppose you want to?

And as it tells its sorry tale

In harrowing detail

Its hollowness will haunt you

Its streets and boulevards

Orphans and oligarchs

And here's a plaintive melody

A truncated symphony.

An ocean's garbled vomit on the shore:

Los Angeles, I'm yours

O ladies, pleasant and demure

Hollow-cheek'd and sure

I can see your undies)

And all the boys you drag about

On empty, fallow fount

From Saturdays to Mondays.

You bridge and tunnel crowd

Hanging your trousers down at heel.

This is the realest thing

As ancient choirs sing

A rushing rabble revels from above

Los Angeles, my love.

O what a rush of ripe elan!

Languor on divans

Dalliant and dainty!

But the smell of burnt cocaine,

The dolor and the drain

It only makes me cranky

O great calamity,

Den of iniquity and tears

How I abhor this place

Its sweet and bitter taste

Has left me wretched, wretching on all fours

Los Angeles, I'm yours


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