Once upon a time in Hollywoodland Where the red Earth shakes turning soil to sand A child from the forest got lost in the jungle Searching for magic in the city of muggles Obliterate the youth Where's the art? Where’s the truth? Where's the heart? What's the use? When we’re all damned from the start, from abuse Not covered on the news but covered in blood We crawl through thе mud In the pain and the shame And rеfuse to be judged The stars down below ain't stars up above You live for the show or you die for the love In the land of freedom there's a city of demons If angels live here, then we can't see them In the land of freedom there's a city of demons Caught in the Dark Age Welcome to Hell-A Welcome to Hell-A You'll go insane Welcome to Hell-A Now I'm back doing time on the 405 Chained down to the lines trying to stay alive No freedom or freeway No reason or leeway Snake pit, rat race One way, two-faced Drive-throughs, drive-bys Low wage and high-rise And low tides, and barbed wire, and hill fires It's all wild when everything you see is either FBI or the LAPD Slaving into the grind or grinding out on the streets Malibu is burning and I can’t breathe I can feel the Balrog coming for me In the land of freedom there's a city of demons If angels live here, then we can't see them In the land of freedom there's a city of demons Caught in the Dark Age Welcome to Hell-A Welcome to Hell-A You'll go insane You'll go insane Cover shots Empty magazines Bodies dropped behind the scenes Buildings fall around the block Beware, beware of the aftershock Aftershock Welcome to Hell-A Welcome to Hell-A Welcome to Hell-A Welcome to Hell-A