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