Hey hey, kids! I'm off to beautiful LA this weekend. I leave you with this gem, It's an ode to the City of Angels, which pretty much speaks for itself. See you later... 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
Sallow cheek'd and sure
(I can see your undies)
And all the boys you drag about
An empty, fallow fount
From Saturdays to Mondays
You hill and valley crowd
Hanging your trousers down at heel
This is the realest thing
As anchient choirs sing
A dozen blushing cherubs wheel above
Los Angeles, my love
O, what a rush of ripe elan!
Languor on divans
Dalliance and dainty!
But the smell of burnt cocaine,
The dolour and decay
It only makes me cranky
O, great calamity
Dish of inequity and tears
How I abhor this place!
Its sweet and bitter taste
Has left me wretched, retching on all fours
Los Angeles, I'm yours
Los Angeles, I'm yours
Los Angeles, I'm yours
The Decemberists > Los Angeles, I'm Yours
3 comments:
LA beautiful?! Interesting place to visit but it's a bit of a shit-hole isn't it?
Hope you had a good time though!
it has a few redeeming qualities, but yeah, i wouldn't want to live there.
Yes, he has an English major's way with words but more often than not, it annoys me. That and his voice. Argh! Sometimes it's kind of cute. And live, it's less cloying. But I don't know where he gets his pronunciation on so many words from. Like how he says "Los Angelees" here. That's where I have to stop the song.
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