 Kiedis ' feelings of alienation from his bandmates led him to feel that the city of Los Angeles was his only companion : " I felt an unspoken bond between me and my city . I 'd spent so much time wandering through the streets of L.A. and hiking through the Hollywood Hills that I sensed there was a nonhuman entity , maybe the spirit of the hills and the city , who had me in her sights and was looking after me . " The lines " Sometimes I feel like / My only friend / Is the city I live in / The City of Angels / Lonely as I am / Together we cry " show a direct link to Kiedis ' isolation and sense of susceptibility . Despite these emotions , Kiedis believed his life was better without drugs , telling Rolling Stone that " no matter how sad or lonely I got , things were a million percent better than they were two years earlier when I was using drugs all the time . There was no comparison . " The optimistic ideology gave birth to the chorus of the song : " I don 't ever want to feel / Like I did that day / Take me to the place I love " , the place he loves being his band mates , friends , and family . 
