Good to know it's so evocative of real life, never having been to LA myself. His lyrics so often feel like movies to me.
On the other hand nobody could accuse Kathleen Brennan of being a spent piece of used jet trash... something I've long appreciated about Waits is he tends to give multiple, often contradictory explanations for the meaning of his lyrics.
I'll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past/ so send me off to bed forever more...