I gave up my cynicism, I gave up my hard shell

I gave up everything that would cause you the least pain

I'm immodest as a child old before it's time

Why should I hide something I've no chance to see?

My nights are all sleepless so all through my day

I took the next shade of weariness down to L.A.

I'm off like a shotgun out of your reach

My self-importance, my mind-numbing haze

No, I don't want to know about my life

I don't want to know what I'm thinking or feeling

Ignorance is bliss but babe, we won't stay that way

We'll escape heaven somehow down in L.A.

I can make your future easier to predict

I'm hot as a devil and cold as an addict

People usually just make me tired

The plague of always deserving something better

God save me from the rewards I deserve

One for giving up hope and the one for the love that I serve

If I opened my heart then you'd be washed away

Down the bone-dry rivers that drain L.A.

My nights are all sleepless and all through my day

I like to take shades of weariness all through L.A.