Pastoral Angst Lyrics - John Cale

Welcome to the gold rush, ladies and gentlemen 

Where California begins and maybe ends 

California is the last stop on the great hitchhike 

West and now it's getting a little full 

Too many thumbs, well, when you get 

Too many people in one place 

You get intolerance and contempt and rigidity 

And tension and sarcasm, distrust, anxiety, envy, hate, cynicism 

Discontent, self-pity, malice, suspicion, jealousy and snobbishness 

And this leads right into poetry, painting, sculpture 

Dance, music and literature, photography 

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These are known as the arts and art will break your heart 

So what? So will a good meal 

Art is not the spiritual side of business-as-usual 

And art is not for everyone never has been and it never will be 

Now me, I don't know much about art, but I do like what I know 

You know in these days when everybody is mistaking 

Celebrity for talent, ambition for genius, self-pity for humility 

Photos 

Style for content and loathing for love 

They spend a lot of time getting in touch with them self 

And then they find self-justification, self-righteousness 

Self-obsession, self-pity, self-loathing, self-concern 

Self-centredness, self-reliance, and self-serving gratification