In The Shadow Of The Valley

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.