Lyrics

LA Lullaby
copyright 2005 by Bobby Lightfoot/boatsongs BMI/all rights reserved

To all you children
Sleeping in your cars tonight
Down Hollywood Boulevard
And Crescent Heights and Vine

I hope you had a good show
I hope you set the world alight
I hope you got your fifty paying guests
Into the Troubadour tonight?

Because that?s how it is?
And that?s what it?s like?
And no one else will ever understand
Don?t tell them how you drove all night
Don?t tell them how you saw the light
Shining down on you and only you?

From the beach east to Cahuenga
San Vicente to the center of the sky
From the lookout on Mulholland
This is your LA lullaby?

To all you children
Waiting tables, waiting for the Fates to smile
Ain?t it just a lonely mile?

I hope you sing like angels
I hope you make the sweetest sound
As you feed your dreams like nickels
Into this one-armed bandit town

Because that?s how it is?
And that?s what it?s like?
And no one else will ever understand
Don?t tell them how you drove all night
Don?t tell them how you saw the light
Shining down on you and only you?

From the beach east to Cahuenga
San Vicente to the center of the sky
From the lookout on Mulholland
This is your LA lullaby?

Down the weird hills of the Grapevine
Through the concrete canyons of the 405
As the lights go down on Sunset
This is your LA lullaby?