Electric Los Angeles Sunset

Album: Zero She Flies (1970)
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  • Shots split the night, a bullet lodged in his brain
    He must have died instantly, he felt no pain
    A crowd quickly gathered to the feast of the gun
    Waiting for the ambulance and cops to come
    Hm mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm
    Sirens wail in the concrete
    Hm mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm
    Electric Los Angeles sunset, the sunset, the sunset, oh-o-oh

    Headlight lit the faces by the tabernacle door
    Gazing at the bloodstains on the damp sidewalk
    As the crowd turned to go, a man was heard to say
    "He must have had it comin' to him anyway"
    Hm mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm
    Blood wagon rolls through the dragnet
    Hm mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm
    Electric Los Angeles sunset, the sunset, the sunset, oh-o-oh

    Cadillacs roll through the smoggy perfume
    The buildings are choking on oxygen fumes
    Evangelists praying in rented rooms, in the afternoon
    Which way do the signposts read
    African eyes in the sunrise
    The gates of the city are rusted over and mouldering
    The violence of the evening decays into the night
    While shadows press like moths against the neon light
    Movie queues diffuse into the Cinerama haze
    While libertines read pornozines in street cafes
    Hm mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm
    The madman swings in the pulpit
    Hm mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm
    Electric Los Angeles sunset, the sunset, the sunset, oh-o-oh Writer/s: ALISTAIR IAN STEWART
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Comments: 4

  • Brakeshoe from LaAlways thought jimmy page plays the electric guitar on this song. No musician credits on my copy and google does not have any info. Thoughts?
  • G from Los Angeles, CaI had to add - the subject of this song is the assassination of Robert Kennedy, and the sunset of an era in American politics.
  • Alexander from London, EnglandYes he had, he first visited New York in the Spring of 1968; see my songfact for "In Brooklyn".
  • Bill from San Francisco, CaAl had not yet been to America when he wrote this song, it was about his perception of it. Ironically, he now lives in LA, and I don't believe he has written another song about the city.
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