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Took a free ride off a billionaire's jet
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L.A, I'm from nowhere, who am I to love you?
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L.A, I've got nothing, who am I to love you when I'm feeling this way and I've got nothing to offer?
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L.A, not quite the city that never sleeps
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Not quite the city that wakes, but the city that dreams, for sure
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If by dreams you mean in nightmares
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L.A, I'm a dreamer, but I'm from nowhere, who am I to dream?
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L.A, I'm upset, I have complaints, listen to me
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They say I came from money and I didn't, and I didn't even have love, and it's unfair
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L.A, I sold my life rights for a big check and I'm upset
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And now I can't sleep at night and I don't know why
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Plus, I love Zac, so why did I do that when I know it won't last?
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L.A, I picked San Francisco because the man who doesn't love me lives there
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L.A, I'm pathetic, but so are you, can I come home now?
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Daughter to no one, table for one
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Party of thousands of people I don't know at Delilah where my ex-husband works
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I'm sick of this, but can I come home now?
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Mother to no one, private jet for one
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Back home to the Tudor house that borned a thousand murder plots
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Hancock Park, it's treated me very badly and resentful
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The witch on the corner, the neighbor nobody wanted
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The reason for Garcetti's extra security
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L.A, I know I'm bad, but I have nowhere else to go, can I come home now?
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I never had a mother, will you let me make the sun my own for now, and the ocean my son?
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I'm quite good at tending to things despite my upbringing, can I raise your mountains?
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I promise to keep them greener, make them my daughters, teach them about fire, warn them about water
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I'm lonely, L.A, can I come home now?
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I left my city for San Francisco
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And I'm writing from the Golden Gate Bridge
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But it's not going as I planned
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I took a free ride off a billionaire and brought my typewriter and promised myself that I would stay but
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It's just not going the way that I thought
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It's not that I feel different, and I don't mind that it's not hot
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It's just that I belong to no one, which means there's only one place for me
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The city not quite awake, the city not quite asleep
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The city that's still deciding how good it can be
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And also
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I can't sleep without you
No one's ever really held me like you
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Not quite tightly, but certainly I feel your body next to me
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Smoking next to me
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Vaping lightly next to me
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And I love that you love the neon lights like me
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Orange in the distance
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We both love that
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And I love that we have that in common
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Also, neither one of us can go back to New York
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For you are unmoving
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As for me, it won't be my city again until I'm dead
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**** the New York Post
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L.A, who am I to need you when I've needed so much, asked for so much?
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But what I've been given, I'm not sure yet
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I may never know that either until I'm dead
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For now though, what I do know
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Is although I don't deserve you
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Not you at your best and your splendor
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With towering eucalyptus trees that sway in my dominion
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Not you at your worst
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Totally on fire, unlivable, unbreathable, I need you
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You see, I have no mother
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And you do
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A continental shelf
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A larger piece of land from where you came
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And I?
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I'm an orphan
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A little seashell that rests upon your native shores
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One of many, for sure
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But because of that, I surely must love you closely to the most of anyone
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For that reason, let me love you
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Don't mind my desperation
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Let me hold you, not just for vacation
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But for real and for forever
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Make it real life
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Let me be a real wife to you
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Girlfriend, lover, mother, friend
I adore you
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Don't be put off by my quick-wordedness
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I'm generally quite quiet
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Quite a meditator, actually
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I'll do very well down by Paramhansa Yogananda's realization center, I'm sure
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I promise you'll barely even notice me
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Unless you want to notice me
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Unless you prefer a rambunctious child
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In which case, I can turn it on, too
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I'm quite good on the stage as you may know
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You might have heard of me
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So either way, I'll fit in just fine
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So just love me by doing nothing
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And perhaps, by not shaking the county line
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I'm yours if you'll have me
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But regardless, you're mine
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