Let it be printed
Let it be known
I'm leaving you
I'm going home
And all you can do is just
Watch me go
I've put you down
Talked you up
Defended your honor
Then packed it in and picked it up
And all you can do is just
Watch me go
From the Eastern seaboard
The land-locked Midwest
The Keys, the Alps, the Black Hills
and Budapest
With my heart in a sling, tail between my legs a swingin'
I'm sorry for leavin'
But when the palm trees bow their heads
No matter how cruel I've been
LA, you always let me back in
And you can bury me when my body breaks
In the earth that created me
In the Golden State
By my mama and her brother
And their mama too
Cause I had a dream I was carried on backs
Of a thousand green birds
And they carried me to a place without words
And there was nothin'
But there was everything
But when the palm trees bow their heads
No matter how wrong I've been
LA, you always let me back in
But when the palm trees bow their heads
No matter how cruel I've been
LA, you always let me back in
Let it be known
I'm leaving you
I'm going home
And all you can do is just
Watch me go
I've put you down
Talked you up
Defended your honor
Then packed it in and picked it up
And all you can do is just
Watch me go
From the Eastern seaboard
The land-locked Midwest
The Keys, the Alps, the Black Hills
and Budapest
With my heart in a sling, tail between my legs a swingin'
I'm sorry for leavin'
But when the palm trees bow their heads
No matter how cruel I've been
LA, you always let me back in
And you can bury me when my body breaks
In the earth that created me
In the Golden State
By my mama and her brother
And their mama too
Cause I had a dream I was carried on backs
Of a thousand green birds
And they carried me to a place without words
And there was nothin'
But there was everything
But when the palm trees bow their heads
No matter how wrong I've been
LA, you always let me back in
But when the palm trees bow their heads
No matter how cruel I've been
LA, you always let me back in