Warren wanted a Beach Boys thing for this one, and Carl Wilson and Billy Hinsche came in, with Carl arranging the vocal parts. The other harmony vocalists (credited as the "Gentlemen Boys") were Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther, Zevon's longtime backers Waddy Wachtel and Jorge Calderon, and Linda Rondstadt/Stone Poneys guitarist Kenny Edwards.
Oh Los Angeles we leave you now
At the setting of your skies
As we leave the comfort of your ground
With your angels we will fly
Well you carried us in broken dreams
Like a mother does her sons
We were scattered 'cross your dirty streets
We were dying one by one
And you held us in your city lights
When our eyes had lost the stars
And we made our peace with lonely nights
And you healed our broken hearts
Well they say the big one's gonna come
And you'll fall into the sea
But we will know that then your work is done
And your angels will go free
And your angels will go free
And your angels will go free
And your angels will go free
At the setting of your skies
As we leave the comfort of your ground
With your angels we will fly
Well you carried us in broken dreams
Like a mother does her sons
We were scattered 'cross your dirty streets
We were dying one by one
And you held us in your city lights
When our eyes had lost the stars
And we made our peace with lonely nights
And you healed our broken hearts
Well they say the big one's gonna come
And you'll fall into the sea
But we will know that then your work is done
And your angels will go free
And your angels will go free
And your angels will go free
And your angels will go free
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Regarding the Big One: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Andreas_Fault
But I can't figure out what the city's work is.
Perhaps the angels would be free simply because they didn't have a city to tend to anymore?