This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
I came to L.A. to be rock and roll
Along the way I had to sell my soul
I made some good friends that make me say
I really wannabe in L.A.
I took the time to get to Beverly
Laid some rocket tape roll on the 180
Allen and Natasha always make me say
I really wannabe in L.A.
( I really wannabe in L.A wahahoo)
( I really wannabe in L.A wahahoo)
( I really wannabe in L.A wahahoo)
I take the city in the dead of night
I'm burning gas until I feel all right
The sunset honeys always make me say
I really wannabe in L.A.
I came to L.A. to be rock and roll
Along the way I had to sell my soul
I made some good friends that make me say
I really wannabe in L.A.
Along the way I had to sell my soul
I made some good friends that make me say
I really wannabe in L.A.
I took the time to get to Beverly
Laid some rocket tape roll on the 180
Allen and Natasha always make me say
I really wannabe in L.A.
( I really wannabe in L.A wahahoo)
( I really wannabe in L.A wahahoo)
( I really wannabe in L.A wahahoo)
I take the city in the dead of night
I'm burning gas until I feel all right
The sunset honeys always make me say
I really wannabe in L.A.
I came to L.A. to be rock and roll
Along the way I had to sell my soul
I made some good friends that make me say
I really wannabe in L.A.
Lyrics submitted by mybloodyvalentine
Wannabe in L.A Lyrics as written by Jesse Hughes Josh Homme
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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"Wannabe in L.A." is the first single from the Eagles of Death Metal's third studio album Heart On. It reached number 38 on the Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart. Hughes credits inspiration to the song on drummer Joey Castillo: "Dude, listen. I’m the fuckin luckiest hillbilly on the face of the Earth to be in this touring band right now, with this cast of criminals. Joey Castillo… he’s one of the fuckin reasons I wrote Wannabe In L.A., dude. Cause L.A. is the great irony of my life. How it is that I came to the phoniest fucking environment ever made by man, Hollywood, and was able to find the best examples of friendship, integrity, truth… I was able to find role models and a family of friends who’ve looked out for me above and beyond anything I’ve ever experienced in my life. That shit doesn’t happen everyday, and you’d be an asshole to miss that."
The song is featured in the video game Midnight Club: Los Angeles which was released seven days before the song was released. It can also be heard in the video games MLB 09: The Show, Colin McRae: Dirt 2, and is a playable selection in Guitar Hero 5 . The music video contains two versions directed by Liam Lynch. The Standard version is the original version and the Pins version uses CGI pins recreating images from the original music video.