Oh the night, here it comes again
It's on with the jeans, the jacket and a shirt
How'd I end up feeling so bad
For such a little girl
And I hold you close in the back of my mind
Feels so good but damn it makes me hurt
And I'm too scared to know how I feel about you now
La Cienega just smiled, "see you around"
And I hold you close in the back of my mind
Raise my glass 'cause either way I'm dead
Neither of you really help me to sleep anymore
One breaks my body and the other breaks my soul
La Cienega just smiles, waves goodbye
Oh the night, here it comes again
It's off with the jeans, the jacket and the shirt
How'd I end up feeling so bad
For such a little girl
And I hold you close in the back of my mind
Feels so good but damn it makes me hurt
I'm too scared to know how I feel about you now
How I feel about you now
La Cienega just smiles and says, "I'll see you around"
It's on with the jeans, the jacket and a shirt
How'd I end up feeling so bad
For such a little girl
And I hold you close in the back of my mind
Feels so good but damn it makes me hurt
And I'm too scared to know how I feel about you now
La Cienega just smiled, "see you around"
And I hold you close in the back of my mind
Raise my glass 'cause either way I'm dead
Neither of you really help me to sleep anymore
One breaks my body and the other breaks my soul
La Cienega just smiles, waves goodbye
Oh the night, here it comes again
It's off with the jeans, the jacket and the shirt
How'd I end up feeling so bad
For such a little girl
And I hold you close in the back of my mind
Feels so good but damn it makes me hurt
I'm too scared to know how I feel about you now
How I feel about you now
La Cienega just smiles and says, "I'll see you around"
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I think the song is about him having an affair with a younger girl, who ends up being his true love. I think he is battling with the fact she is younger, he fears this is just infatuation for her and not really true love and so daren’t risk what he has in fear the young girl will grow tiresome and leave him eventually anyway. However, I don’t think he leaves her, I think she leaves him, despite her love for him, knowing he will never believe her and has to be cruel to be kind and set him free in the misguided knowledge he will one day get over her. I think this is an incredibly sad and romantic song about two people who love each other so much they believe that by being apart, no matter how much it hurts, it is the right thing to do for the sake of the other person. It is out of pure love they have to break away from each other. I think he is trying to justify the split, with excuses such as her age and her faked nonchalance.
"Ah the night...here it comes again It's on with the jeans, the jacket and the shirt"
"How'd I end up feeling so bad For such a little girl"
"And I hold you close in the back of my mind"
"Feels so good but damn it makes me hurt And I'm too scared to know to how I feel about you now"
"La Cienega just smiles..."see ya around"
"And raise my glass 'cause either way I'm dead Neither of you really help me to sleep anymore One breaks my body and the other breaks my soul"
"La Cienega just smiles as it waves goodbye"
"Ah the night...here it comes again It's off with the jeans, the jacket and the shirt"
I think that he calls this girl 'La Cienega' is perhaps that if is a girl he's had an affair with he has been used to having a fake name for her, perhaps on his phone/email/hotels etc. As 'La Ceinega' is spanish for 'marsh' or 'swamp' it could also connate that she is foreign to him and his world yet an exotic and welcome intrusion on his once boring exsistance, however, the translation of 'marsh' suggests this once foreign girl has become his one familiarity. The choice of 'marsh/swamp' could also be a metaphor for her completely consuming him and sucking him into her.