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 L.A.      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 L.A.      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   Down 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 L.A.