‘LA Night’ by Morgan Wallen - Lyrics and Meaning

‘LA Night’ finds Morgan Wallen paying homage to a sun-soaked romance on the West Coast, and calls to mind the famous lyric from his early hit, ‘The Way I Talk’ (“Something in it those California girls love”). It arrives as one of the final tracks on Wallen's 2025 album, I'm the Problem, and perfectly sets up ‘Miami’, a less optimistic love-story that also finds the Sneedville megastar out of his Tennessee comfort zone.

‘LA Night’ carries a more vibrant, uplifting tone compared to much of I'm the Problem, which is permeated by a heavy, sobering ambience. This track, on the other hand, finds Morgan Wallen crooning warmly across a galvanising drum pattern and guitar riff, bringing the rose-tinted excitement and butterflies of the narrative to life.

“This hotel room says no smokin’

She’s outside with the door slid open

T-shirt, nothin’ underneath it

Sativa dancin’ right off of her lips

I’m on the bed sippin’ red Johnny Walker

Strummin’ chords, tryin’ to write her a song

She don’t know it, but I just caught her singing along, singing along”

Morgan Wallen opens the curtains on a romantic scene, as he watches his lover smoking on the hotel balcony wearing one of his t-shirts. Wallen, meanwhile, is drinking some Johnny Walker whiskey in bed, as he endearingly tries to write her a song. He underlines how in-sync and carefree they are, because although she doesn't know the song, she's singing along, consolidating the blissful ambience of the image.

“You’re too damn pretty to be thinkin’ ‘bout sleep

Baby, come back inside and help me tangle these sheets

Twist some lime in your liquor, leave some glitter on me

Stop my world on a dime, it’s only quarter past three

Don’t want nothin’ on you but the TV light

Get you high as a hill with a Hollywood sign

If you wake up in love with some bloodshot eyes

Blame it on a country boy on a LA night”

During the hook, Morgan Wallen attempts to convince his partner to come back to bed and spend some more time tangled up together. He outlines how he wants to get her as high as the hills in the distance with the Hollywood sign, with the ‘Love Somebody’ chart-topper saying she should blame his passion on the fact that he's a country boy in the dazzling lights of LA. While in ‘Miami’, he portrays this contrast as a negative, here, he suggests that the city-life gives him an edge and a buzz.

“Ah, get to free-fallin’

Stayin’ up like the stars over Mulholland

Ridin’ off in the sunrise, down Sunset

But baby, we ain’t there yet”

He drops a few more Californian references, as he expresses his desire to stay ‘up’ just like the stars above Mulholland Drive, before they drive down Sunset Boulevard - at sunrise.

As is often the case of late, the ‘Thought You Should Know’ singer-songwriter has so far remained tight-lipped on how the song came about.

However, when revealing the release date for I'm the Problem, Wallen provided fans with an insight into the theme of introspection that courses through the project as a whole.

“I have been a problem, for sure, and I've got no problem admitting that. But there are other sides to me as well," he explained. "I've spent the last 11 months really trying to figure out, 'Do I still want to be the problem? Is it time to move past that phase in my life? I think it probably is, and this might be the last time I get a chance to honestly say it.”

“This hotel room says no smokin’

She’s outside with the door slid open

T-shirt, nothin’ underneath it

Sativa dancin’ right off of her lips

I’m on the bed sippin’ red Johnny Walker

Strummin’ chords, tryin’ to write her a song

She don’t know it, but I just caught her singing along, singing along

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You’re too damn pretty to be thinkin’ ‘bout sleep

Baby, come back inside and help me tangle these sheets

Twist some lime in your liquor, leave some glitter on me

Stop my world on a dime, it’s only quarter past three

Don’t want nothin’ on you but the TV light

Get you high as a hill with a Hollywood sign

If you wake up in love with some bloodshot eyes

Blame it on a country boy on a LA night

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Ah, get to free-fallin’

Stayin’ up like the stars over Mulholland

Ridin’ off in the sunrise, down Sunset

But baby, we ain’t there yet

-

You’re too damn pretty to be thinkin’ ‘bout sleep

Baby, come back inside and help me tangle these sheets

Twist some lime in your liquor, leave some glitter on me

Stop my world on a dime, it’s only quarter past three

Don’t want nothin’ on you but the TV light

Get you high as a hill with a Hollywood sign

If you wake up in love with some bloodshot eyes

Blame it on a country boy on a LA night

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A LA Night

Thinkin’ ‘bout a LA Night in the broad daylight

With a smile on your face from thinkin’ ‘bout the way that you felt with me

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On the bed sippin’ red Johnny Walker

Strummin’ chords tryin’ to write you a song

You don’t know it, but I just caught ya singing along, singing along

-

You’re too damn pretty to be thinkin’ ‘bout sleep

Come back inside and help me tangle these sheets

Twist some lime in your liquor, leave some glitter on me

Stop my world on a dime, it’s only quarter past three

Don’t want nothin’ on you but the TV light

Get you high as a hill with a Hollywood sign

If you wake up in love with some bloodshot eyes

Just blame it on a country boy on a LA night

A LA Night

A LA Night

A LA Night”

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