To Love in LA

You’re just another pretty face in LA

Until you let someone learn you deeper

A single flower where a million suns hover

Wishing they could be someone

Just another day in sunny LA

You wish the rain would keep her

From growing amidst lighting and thunder

Her petals seen by a million and one

Don’t we all wish we could be someone?

Maybe she’ll see your face everywhere she runs

But no matter how much you hope to be seen

One times one is still one

I was a sunflower blooming in the cracks

A sidewalk between Doheny and La Cienega

Among such beauty

Looking but no touching, stuck in my place

Everyone they walked around me

And reminded me of what I lack

Among such beauty

They said “try to be something”

The city said know your place

You wanted LA to love you

And all you got were likes

Only one desired the inner you

And you pushed him to the side

By now he’s in the rear view

As you rev your engine through the hills

To meet a man who doesn’t see the real you

And go home feeling empty still

We wanted cheap shots

So we got the cheap thrills

Like kids addicted to candy

In the form of happy pills

Is this what it’s like to love here?

To fall for objects and ideas and filters

I examine you through my designer shades

As your petals begin to wilter

NYC is the city that never sleeps

LA is the city that sleeps around

Her phone stays blowing up

Asking when she’ll be around

There was nothing left to us

As more flowers filled the town

We no longer had attention from the sun

As our petals hit the ground