You know I hardly ever come here  Cause it's a place I don't feel at home  They say long ago she lost the dream  When her keepers here let it go  I heard many things about her  Before I laid my eyes on her skin  When I first beheld this withered angel  I yearned for what she had been  Chorus:  Oh hey Los Angelenos  I saw your lights from on the hill  Spread out below a diamond blanket  I saw your breast rising still  I never knew you held this vision  Pulsing alive and full of rhyme  I couldn't see the hidden meaning  I guess I was wrong about your dying  Oh I was wrong about your dying  Oh L.A.  It's so easy to be swallowed  In these streets that call out for rain  Let a storm come on uproot us from here  And plant us all once again  Oh her spirits heard me singing  She lead me up the hill in the dark  She unblinded me where I could see  That the angel still has heart  Chorus  They're like butterflies your healers  And they fill your skies at night  We can listen if we will  Bring us all alive  World arise and fly