L.A., Could You Let Me In? Lyrics

I can take a ride

In a car I don't drive

But not to the Hollywood sign

How it's so like

Los Angeles

You can't reach it

It's just symbolic

It's something you can't explain

To a person from a different state

How you're so close by

But still so far away

L.A., (huh-uh)

Could you let me in

I'm a native, but I'm feeling foreign

I get a lousy invitation by the money I spend

And fancy clothes

And buildings I enter in

If I'm excluded, how

You're my hometown

After a show

What's left are nobodies

The band's gone home

So I could own these streets

Be somebody

But I, I don't

What's the matter, matter with me

I got dressed up just to see nobody

I'm in my twenties

No drink I can't drink

Still "you entitled brat, leave"

The city seems to scream

L.A., (huh-uh)

Could you let me in (mm-hmm)

I'm a native, but I'm feeling foreign

I get a lousy invitation by the money I spend

And fancy clothes

And buildings I enter in

If I'm excluded, how

You're my hometown

I can go on a date

With a man his age

Says he knows about fame

But I can't rewind

Take his past spotlight

And make it mine

L.A., (huh-uh)

Could you let me in

I'm a native, but I feel foreign

I get a lousy invitation by the money I spend

And fancy clothes

And buildings I enter in

If I'm excluded, how

You're my hometown

So don't you dare

Exclude me now

You're my hometown