Los Angeles Shameful city I′ve been taken by the world below Los Angeles
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Here I am again Watching the world go by Right before my eyes All the things I should have known Have started to hit hard What you are What you are But you won′t let go What you are But you won′t let go
Los Angeles Shameful city I′ve been taken by the world that′s down below Los Angeles
A flickering eye Casting a silhouette Someone I used to know But that person is gone I gotta try to keep telling myself I got it under control
What you are What you are But you won′t let go What you are But you won′t let go
Los Angeles Shameful city I′ve been taken by the world that′s down below Los Angeles
This time′s where I remember when I′d deal with it all over again
Los Angeles Shameful city I′ve been taken by the world that′s down below Los Angeles Shameful city I′ve been taken by the world below Los Angeles Los Angeles Los Angeles
At this time, please extinguish all smoking materials Return all seat backs, and tray tables to their most upright, and long position Also at this time please take care to fasten your seatbelt Enjoy your stay, welcome to L.A.
Chorus: Xzibit
Welcome to L.A. Where you can see the whole city burning Cause the cops got uzis and the dealers keep serving and your kids ain′t learning shit, except this Sex power and wealth, fuck everything else (repeat 2X except last line) Trying to survive, Los Angeles Times
Verse One: Xzibit
MC′s get fucked up, chopped like Braveheart Don′t start what you can′t finish, serious bidness Down La Seneca to bust a left on Venice where you can find me and mines -- Los Angeles Times Welcome to L.A. Where every other day I′m taking the hat off my head Givin respect to the dead, and avoid havin the same thing said about me, Xzibit stand underground like the roots of a tree, watered three times a day Forty ounce Olde E, like a magnifying glass making it easier to see, the Mister X to the Z Don′t peak, L.A., why test without vest-es stop lead projectile, Apocalypse Now Love Allah not new car, faggot, superstar type of cat, fuck that, mash away in a diamond-white Concourse ′Llac Still black so the one-time react as if under attack Ain′t nothin changed but district range, feel no pain Mr. Big Bad Insane Black John McClane with liquor on the brain, down to earth like dirt From the city where niggaz known for puttin in work
Chorus
Verse Two: Xzibit
Welcome to L.A. If hand determine dick size, I′m palmin the Earth Select turf, then plant bad seed and give birth And make the hard work look easy fuh sheezee Leavin you and your best man, stiffer than mannequins Enough to break the skin on a Vietnam leatherneck Marine drill sargeant, you nothin but a target (pow!) Charge it to the game, gotta look beyond the brand name Comin from the guts like I slammed down twenty cups of Hennesey straight, relate feel my hate Xzibit flippin through these bitches like DJ trait Translate to left field, only real niggaz follow Bitches suck and swallow, I′m livin life behind the bottle Never the role model, still shinin like a new automobile Flow six-fo′, you can′t steal cause I got a kill switch with a itch for the action While other rappers use mass weapons of destruction to sell they shit
Chorus
Verse Three: Xzibit
El ve-te-rano, you can only pray to learn what I know Ride slow across the horizon a lone desperado Comin through the door bringin nothin but hits Sometimes I feel like a matador, lookin at this bullshit Niggaz pull rent from the crack of they ass Maintain do your thang this too shall pass I season beef with lead pieces then cook it with gas I′m from the school of hard knocks way ahead in the class Xzibit hard to get through, like bulletproof glass Break it down like Johnny Cochran then mix it with hash Your defense can′t last against advanced prosecution Hit the airwaves like pollution -- hey, here′s a solution Take a trip to Washington then burn the Constitution Top government officials locked down for prostitution Recruitin the hard rocks mean streets keep producin The world is a riot shit is mine for the lootin
I′ve been sitting here patiently I′ve been talking too myself Trying to shake that sinking feeling Wishing I was somebody else
And I know it′s not easy When you don′t get what you deserve You can say that you love me But that′s not what I′ve heard
Tonight in L.A Tonight in L.A Well it′s got to be that way Tonight in L.A
Maybe ill get right out of here On the way back to Turnpike Lane Find me a girl that can calm me right down It′s been such a fucked up year
And I know it′s not easy When you don′t get what you deserve You can say that you love me But that′s not what I′ve heard
Tonight in L.A Tonight in L.A Well it′s got to be that way Tonight in L.A
Maybe ill get myself together Or fall to pieces and run back home Get me a ticket for an airplane I′m tired of been alone
I was on Mulholland Drive With the radio on They played Augusstus Pablo And Kings of Leon
He say he knew it′s not easy When you don′t get what you deserve And I know it′s not easy When you don′t get what you deserve You can say that you love me But that′s not what I′ve heard
Tonight in L.A Tonight in L.A Well it′s got to be that way Tonight in L.A
I think of you now we own each other I think of you now we own each other Tonight in L.A Tonight in L.A Tonight in L.A Tonight in L.A Tonight in L.A Tonight in L.A
Mars and the USA And fall and the Milky Way It′s got to be that way The gift is on Broadway Home a million miles away, away, away
You met your match Stars catch your eyes You cry a bed You′ve met your match You burn like fire I′d hire your love You trust your man You burn like a fire I steal I lie I try with you You built your love You steal you lie And love too steal Like me you try You cry a bed You met your match
I will Lay me down In a bunker Underground I won′t let this happen to my children Meet the real world coming out of your shell With white elephants Sitting ducks I will rise up Little babies eyes eyes eyes eyes Little babies eyes eyes eyes eyes Little babies eyes eyes eyes eyes Little babies eyes eyes eyes