Why You'd Want To Live Here Lyrics - The Photo Album - Death Cab For Cutie

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 

The freeways always 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 employee 

if he ever had trouble breathing 

he said, "It varies from season to season, kid." 

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It's where our best are on display, 

Motion picture actor's houses maps are never ever current, 

so save your film and fifteen dollars. 

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 degenerate 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 they weigh me on the way out: 

Here nothing is free. 

The Greyhounds keep coming 

dumping locusts into the streets 

until the gutters overflow and Los Angeles thinks, 

"I might explode someday soon." 

Photos 

It's a lovely summer's day and I can almost see the skyline 

through a thickening shroud of egos. 

(Is this the city of angels or demons?) 

Here the names are what remain: 

Stars encapsulate the gold lane 

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.