Let Me Back In - Rilo Kiley

Let it be printed, let it be known

I’m leaving you, I’m going home

And all you can do is just watch me go

I’ve put you down, talked you up, defended your honor

And then packed it in and picked it up

And all you can do is watch me go

From the Eastern seaboard, the landlocked Midwest

The Keys, the Alps, the Black Hills and Budapest

With my heart in a sling, tail between my legs a-swinging

I’m sorry for leaving

But when the palm trees bow their heads

No matter how wrong I’ve been

L.A., you always let me back in

And you can bury me when my body breaks

In the earth that created me, in the Golden State

By my mama and her brother and their mama too

'Cause I had a dream I was carried on backs

Of a thousand green birds

And they carried me to a place without words

And there was nothing, but there was everything

And it sounded like this

But when the palm trees bow their heads

No matter how cruel I’ve been

L.A., you always let me back in

And when the palm trees bow their heads,

No matter how cruel I’ve been,

L.A., you always let me back in, in

Oh back in, in

Oh back in, in