Lana Del Rey - LA Who Am I to Love You? lyrics

I left my city for San Francisco
Took a free ride off a billionaire's jet
LA, I'm from nowhere, who am I to love you?
LA, I've got nothing
Who am I to love you when
I'm feeling this way and I've got nothing
To offer?
LA,  not quite the city that never sleeps
Not quite the city that wakes
But the city that dreams, for sure
If by dreams, you mean in nightmares

LA, I'm a dreamer, but I'm from nowhere
Who am I to dream?
LA, I'm upset, I have complaints
Listen to me
They say I came from money and I didn't
And I didn't even have love, and it's unfair
LA, I sold my life rights for
A big check and I'm upset
And now I can't sleep at night


And I don't know why plus, I love Zach
So why did I do that when
I know it won't last?
LA, I picked San Francisco because the man
Who doesn't love me lives there
LA, I'm pathetic, but so are you
Can I come home now?
Daughter to no one, table for one
Party of thousands of people I don't know
At Delilah where my ex husband works
I'm sick of this, but can I come home now?
Mother to no one, private jet for one
Back home to the Tudor house that
Borned a thousand murder plots
Hancock Park, it's treated me very badly
I'm resentful the witch on the corner
The neighbor nobody wanted
The reason for Garcetti's extra security

LA, I know I'm bad, but I
Have nowhere else to go
Can I come home now?
I never had a mother, will you let me
Make the sun my own for now
And the ocean my son?
I'm quite good at tending to
Things despite my upbringing
Can I raise your mountains?
I promise to keep them greener
Make them my daughters
Teach them about fire, warn them about water
I'm lonely, LA, can I come home now?

I left my city for San Francisco
And I'm writing from the Golden Gate Bridge
But it's not going as I planned
I took a free ride off a
Billionaire and brought my typewriter
And promised myself that I would stay, but
It's just not going the way that I thought
It's not that I feel different
And I don't mind that it's not hot
It's just that I belong to no one
Which means there's only one place for me
The city not quite awake
The city not quite asleep
The city that's still deciding how
Good it can be and also
I can't sleep without you
No one's ever really held me like you
Not quite tightly, but certainly
I feel your body next to me
Smoking next to me vaping lightly next to me
And I love that you love
The neon lights like me
Orange in the distance we both love that
And I love that we have that in common
Also, neither one of us can
Go back to New York for you are unmoving
As for me
It won't be my city again until I'm dead
Fuck the New York Post

LA, who am I to need you
When I've needed so much, asked for so much?
And what I've been given, I'm not sure yet
I may never know that either until I'm dead
For now, though, what I do know
Is although I don't deserve you
Not you at your best and your splendor
With towering eucalyptus trees that
Sway in my dominion not you at your worst
Totally on fire, unlivable, unbreathable
I need you

You see, I have no mother and you do
A continental shelf
A larger piece of land from where you came
And I? I'm an orphan
A little seashell that rests
Upon your native shores
One of many, for sure but because of that
I surely must love you closely
To the most of anyone
For that reason, let me love you
Don't mind my desperation
Let me hold you, not just for vacation
But for real and for forever
Make it real life
Let me be a real wife to you
Girlfriend, lover, mother, friend
I adore you
Don't be put off by my quick-wordedness
I'm generally quite quiet
Quite a meditator, actually
I'll do very well down by
Paramhansa Yogananda's realization center
I'm sure
I promise you'll barely even notice me
Unless you want to notice me
Unless you prefer a rambunctious child
In which case, I can turn it on too
I'm quite good on the stage as you may know
You might have heard of me

So either way, I'll fit in just fine
So just love me by doing nothing
And perhaps, by not shaking the county line
I'm yours if you'll have me
But regardless, you're mine