Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Why You'd Want to Live Here , by - Death Cab for Cutie. Release date: 08.10.2001
Song language: English
Why You'd Want to Live Here |
| I’m in Los Angeles today… |
| It smells like an airport runway. |
| Jet fuel stenches in the cabin |
| And lights flickering at random. |
| I’m in Los Angeles today… |
| Garbage cans comprise the medians of freeways always creaping |
| Even when the population’s sleeping. |
| And I can’t see why you’d want to live here. |
| I’m in Los Angeles today… |
| Asked a gas station employee if he ever had trouble breathing |
| And he said «It varies from season to season, kid.» |
| It’s where our best are on display… |
| Motion picture actors' houses |
| Maps are never ever current |
| So save your film and $ 15. |
| And I can’t see why you’d want to live here. |
| Billboards reach past the tallest buildings, |
| «We are not perfect — but we sure try.» |
| As UV rays «degradate"our youth with time. |
| The vessel keeps pumping us through this entropic place |
| In the belly of the beast that is Californ-i-a, |
| I drank from a faucet and I kept my receipts |
| For when the weigh me on my way out |
| (Here nothing is free). |
| The greyhounds keep coming |
| Dumping locusts into the street |
| Until the gutters overflow |
| And Los Angeles thinks, |
| «I might explode someday soon.» |
| It’s a lovely summer’s day |
| And I can almost see a skyline through a thickening shroud of egos. |
| (Is this the city of angeles or demons?) |
| Here the names are what remain… |
| Stars encapsulate the gold lame |
| And they need constant cleaning for when the tourists begin salivating. |
| You can’t swim in a town this shallow — you will most assuredly drown tomorrow. |