L.A. Plays Itself

Through tinted windows baby

Can't read the writing on the wall

Can't understand till you speak

In the language of the mall

Too busy living lately

To ever live without the light

I could never leave or believe

In another kind of life

You think it's like that but

It's really like this

You never get caught if

You're never locked in

You think it's like that but

It's really like this

You never get caught if

You're never locked in

Never give up on the city

No you can't live anywhere else

Cause it commands every scene and

It always plays itself

Think it's expensive baby

But all the simple things are free

And every street in your dreams

Is already on the screen

You think it's like that but

It's really like this

You never get caught if

You're never locked in

You think it's like that but

It's really like this

You never get caught if

You're never locked in

You think it's like that but

It's really like this

You never get caught if

You're never locked in

You think it's like that

But it's really like this

You never get caught if

You're never locked in

Can you read the writing on the wall

Never get never get

Never get never get caught

On the canyon driving to the mall

Never get never get caught

Never get never get

Stay until the quake evicts me

I idle in a parking lot

On my search for a space

From an orbit 'round the block

Think I'm hallucinating

Think I might drive into the sea

When I remember again there's

No truth in memory

You think it's like that

But it's really like this

You never get caught if

You're never locked in

You think it's like that

But it's really like this

You never get caught if

You're never locked in

You think it's like that

But it's really like this

You never get caught if

You're never locked in

You think it's like that

But it's really like this

You never get caught if

You're never locked in

Can you read the writing on the wall

Never get never get

Never get never get caught

On the canyon driving to the mall

Never get never get

Never get never get caught

Can you read the writing on the wall

Never get never get

Never get never get caught

On the canyon driving to the mall

Never get never get

Never get never get caught

You think it's like that but

It's really like this

You never get caught if

You're never locked in