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 la
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 LA

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
Dawn 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 LA