Gonna be free, one day we gon' fly
To the other side, golden ride
Ocean breeze, haze in the sky
Livin' like a champion up in the canyon
Smile on the beach if we could only reach it
Gangster paradise on the bus
Stars in the pavement, red ropes sayin'
You will never be one of us
Angeles, oh Angeles, Angeles, Angeles
Angeles, oh Angeles, Angeles, Los Angeles
OO, take my soul, I wanna let you
OO, wish that I had never met you
Gonna be free, one day we gon' fly
To the other side, golden ride
Ocean breeze, haze in the sky
Livin' like a champion up in the canyon
Night bloomin' Jasmine, waited by a has-been
Livin' in the street light dead by day
Houses on stilts in ancient hills
With eyes that have seen this a million ways
Angeles, oh Angeles, Angeles, Angeles
Angeles, oh Angeles, Angeles, Los Angeles
OO, take my soul, I wanna let you
OO, wish that I had never met you
This place and I, we have an affair
it's beautiful and violent and full of despair
This place and I, we have an affair
it's beautiful and violent and full of despair
OO, take my soul, I wanna let you
OO, wish that I had never met you
Angeles, oh Angeles, Angeles, Angeles
Angeles, oh Angeles, Angeles, Los Angeles
Angeles, oh Angeles, Angeles, Angeles
Angeles, oh Angeles, Angeles, Los Angeles
(Sole, sole, ya-yo)
(Shine down on me)
(Take my soul, I wanna let you)
(Wish that I had never met you)