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.