ESCAPE FROM THE CITY OF ANGELS
Original version from album, Flowers and the Color of Paint (Movieplay Records, 1995) . This is the version that appeared appeared in Colombia Pictures’ feature release, The Replacement Killers (1997). Lyrics: ITHAKA , Music: Pedro Passos, Background vocals: Marta Dias. Recorded at Namouche Studios, Lisbon Portugal. Produced by Joe Fossard.Note: the song was slightly altered lyrically and re-recorded in 1998 with new music written and produced by Joe Fossard. Due to disputes over the original masters, this new recording was released with the title, ESCAPE (Nortesul-EMI records, Portugal).
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People they ask me, Why the hell you wanna leave?
Saying that they’ll miss me, that they’re gonna grieve
This town is number one, we got the Lakers and the sun.
There’s always lots of lovelies, always lots of fun
Why won’t you settle down and stay?
Who in their right mind would ever leave LA?
But I gotta tell you, got to put it straight
still’ve busted out of there busted down the gate
Cuz, I had to get out while there was going to get,
LA was the hunter, California was the net
So I got up, got off of my bucket
Sometimes you gotta say, Well what the hell.? FUCK IT!
Wasn’t around for the riots of the King
But every other night bullets left my ears to ring.
HOSTILITY, the song that LA played
Every single night and every single day.
Walking down the alley, the one behind my house
Came five slang-bangers, it was me they were to roust
They asked me, Where ya going?, said, Not really sure
The next thirty-seconds I remembered in a blur
3x WANT TO GET OUT. HAD TO GET OUT. GOT OUT.
ESCAPE FROM THE CITY OF ANGELS
I tried so hard for years to understand
Why do you find such pleasure in killing another man?
I prefer the simple highs in life
Like a mountain of water, not cuttin’ with a knife
But where I’ve disappeared ain’t confidential
The sky’s still blue, the swells are monumental
And no, I’m not ignoring my heritage
Over the gap, I’m a building a bridge
To learn once and for all that peace can exist
Forgive, forget, bring down the fists
3x-WANT TO GET OUT. HAD TO GET OUT. GOT OUT.
ESCAPE FROM THE CITY OF ANGELS
Five days later, what have I got?
I’m in another place which is sunny and hot
The difference here is that I’m free as a bird
No gun to my head, no blood on the curb
But just then a strange thought overtook my brain
And since that day, it never felt the same
If everybody just put down their arms
To nobody on the planet could ever come harm
3x-WANT TO GET OUT. HAD TO GET OUT. GOT OUT.
ESCAPE FROM THE CITY OF ANGELS
The people of this planet they want explanations
For riots, earthquakes and all “God’s creations”
You got me, I just couldn’t say
I do what I do, I take it day by day.
3x-WANT TO GET OUT. HAD TO GET OUT. GOT OUT.
ESCAPE FROM THE CITY OF ANGELS
Well six weeks later, still don’t know what’s up
Don’t got many friends, still got an empty cup
They speak in tongues I don’t understand
But I look just like ‘em, visually I blend
It’s time to start it up in my new land
Korvorowng’s one and only survival plan
3x-WANT TO GET OUT. HAD TO GET OUT. GOT OUT.
ESCAPE FROM THE CITY OF ANGELS
It took me two years, but now I know for sure
LA ain’t the enemy and goodness will endure
The Seed of Free, my real need
Was right there all the time inside of me
Just a voyage of my mind is what I needed
But now I’m on the other side and deep seeded
LA to LAX in fourteen hours flat.
At home on two shores, but I ain’t living fat
Still plagued by brokenness
It doesn’t disappear when I say, hocus pocus
But grounded for the moment in the city of Lisbon
I’m looking for peace and I’m looking for wisdom
Hooked up with a mastermind named, Grizzly
Formed Ithaka, now we’re rolling busily
3x-WANT TO GET OUT. HAD TO GET OUT. GOT OUT.
ESCAPE FROM THE CITY OF ANGELS
3x-WANT TO GET OUT. HAD TO GET OUT. GOT OUT.
ESCAPE FROM THE CITY OF ANGELS
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