Escape from LA

Tattoo a sunrise above my heart

Dress me in blacks and blues

Get me a taxi from a border-town

And a driver with nothing left to lose

I'll sit in the back with my bottle of rain

And my suitcase full of leaves

And say good-bye to this lottery town

Where passion gets sold but never spent

Where stars get caught in wet cement

I miss the man that used to be me

When the sky was open wide

I miss the smile I always used to see

When the sun shone from inside

I need to get away … escape from LA

I've seen too many dreamers climb Paradise Hill

Then fall down to the rocks

I've followed these freeways that circle around

'til I was light years from my heart

Can't dial 911 for the lives we live

Or a doctor for the air that we breathe

And I'd give anything to know what to do 

There's a fire in the night, no one to call 

The crash of the angels hitting the wall

Plant red roses where the dream has died

Put guitars in the hands of every child

Tell them to ride shotgun on this angry wind

Find the Mystic in the wild

I've gambled for glory and I've gambled for love

Won't gamble with this last ace in my soul

I'll go away until I understand

That the sun-down gunned-down spirit of man

Will get kicked around then rise again

I'll find the man that used to be me

When the sky was open wide

I'll find the smile I always used to see

When the sun shone from inside

I might be back some day … but for now

I'll escape from LA