Shining down on the western neon lights
There's a black moon tonight
Shining down on the western neon lights

With your bag lady friend and your mind descending
There's a black moon tonight
All I see is dead wings
They say this is the city

All I see is dead wings
All I see is dead wings

Over hooker sunset strip
They say this is the city
All I see is dead wings
Stripped of the right to be a human in control
All I see is dead wings
No angels singing in your valley of unease
The city of angels
They all stare and growl
I take a scar every time I cry
Left behind erased from time
The city of angels

They say this is the city
They say this is the city
All I see is dead wings
Going down to the gravel head to the barrel
Once you get born you're never the same

They say this is the city
Dionysian night vitriolic twilight

Emptiness never sleeps at Clifton's 6 a.m.
Look around ain't no R.I.P. signs here
Take this life and end this struggle
They say this is the city
So here we are Los Angeles
I watch the sun roll down the pacific
Los Angeles come scam me please
It's a ghost town rabid underworld
Ain't no decency in being boxed up alive
The city of angels
We don't rest in peace, we just disappear

'Cause it ain't my style, no it ain't my style
The city of angels
A mirage comes up it never ends
It's warmer in hell so down we go
The city of angels
The city of angels