Death Cab For Cutie - Why You'd Want To Live Here Lyrics
I'm in Los Angeles today:it smells like an airport runway.Jet fuel stenches in the cabinand lights flickering at random.I'm in Los Angeles today:Garbage cans comprise the medians of freewaysAlways creeping, even when the population's sleeping.And I can't see why you'd want to live here.I'm in Los Angles today:Asked a gas station employeeif he ever had trouble breathingHe said it varies from season to season, kid.It's where our best are on display:Motion picture actor's housesMaps are never ever current, so saveyour film and fifteen dollars.And I can't see why you'd want to live here.Billboards reach past the tallest buildingsWe are not perfect, but we sure tryAs UV rays degradate our youth with time.The vessel keeps pumping us through this entropic placeIn the belly of the beast that is Californ-i-aI drank from a faucet and I kept my receiptsFrom when they weigh me on the way out(here nothing is free)The Greyhounds keep comingdumping locusts into the streetsuntil the gutters overflowAnd Los Angeles thinks:I might explode someday soon.It's a lovely summer's dayAnd I can almost see the skylineThrough a thickening shroud of egos(is this the city of angels or demons?)Here the names are what remain:Stars encapsulate the gold laneAnd they need constant cleaningFor when the tourists begin salivating,You can't swim in a town this shallow.You will most assuredly drown tomorrow.
