Bad Religion Lyrics

Album: The Empire Strikes First

Los Angeles Is Burning Lyrics

Somewhere high in the desert near a curtain of a blue 

 St. Anne's skirts are billowing

 But down here in the city of the lime lights 

 The fans of santa ana are withering

 And you can’t deny that living is easy 

 If you never look behind the scenery 

 It's showtime for dry climes

 And bedlam is dreaming of rain 

 

 When the hills of los angeles are burning

 Palm trees are candles in the murder wind 

 So many lives are on the breeze

 Even the stars are ill at ease 

 And los angeles is burning

 

 This is not a test 

 Of the emergency broadcast system 

 Where malibu fires and radio towers 

 Conspire to dance again 

 And I cannot believe the media Mecca 

 They're only trying to peddle reality, 

 Catch it on prime time, story at nine 

 The whole world is going insane 

 

 When the hills of los angeles are burning

 Palm trees are candles in the murder wind 

 So many lives are on the breeze

 Even the stars are ill at ease 

 And los angeles is burning

 

 A placard reads

 "the end of days"

 Jacaranda boughs are bending in the haze

 

 More a question than a curse 

 How could hell be any worse? 

 

 The flames are stunning

 The cameras running

 So take warning

 

 When the hills of los angeles are burnin 

 Palm trees are candles in the murder wind 

 So many lives are on the breeze

 Even the stars are ill at ease 

 And los angeles is burning