Letra
Ver letra con acordes
Tabbed by: Joey .
This is off an acoustic recording.
Its easiest if you finger pick it, but I think he uses a pick.
Tuning: Standard
Intro
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Verse
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I m in Los Angeles today: It smells like and airport
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runway, jet fuel stenches in the cabin and lights flickering at random.
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I m in Los Angeles today: Grabage cans comprise the
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medians of freeways always creeping even when the populations sleeping
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Chorus 1
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I cant see why you d want to live here.
Verse
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I m in Los Angeles today: Ask a gas station employee
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if he ever had trouble breathing he said "it varies from season to season"
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It s where our best are on display: motion picture actors
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houses maps are never ever current, so save your film and fifteen dollars.
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Chorus 2
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I cant see why you d want to live here.
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Bilboards reach past the tallest buildings,
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"We are not perfect but we sure try,"
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as UV rays "degradate" our youth with time.
Interlude
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The vessel keeps pumping us through this entropic place
in the belly of the beast that is Californ-i-a
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I drank from the faucet and I kept my repceipt
for when they weigh me on the way out (here nothing is for free).
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The greyhounds keep coming dumping locusts into the street
until the gutters overflow and Los Angeles thinks,
"I might explode someday soon."
Verse
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It s a lovely summer s day and I can almost see a skyline
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through a thickening shroud of egos. Is this the city of angels or demons?
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Here the names are what remain: stars encapsulate the gold lame
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and they need constant cleaning for when the tourists begin salivating.
Chorus 3
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|---------------------------33333333|
I cant see why you d want to live here.
|-----------------------------------------------------------|
|0--------------------------10|
|00020000000|
|40|
|5523--------------------------------------|
|---------------------------33333333|
Bilboards reach past the tallest buildings.
|-----------------------------------------------------------|
|0--------------------------10|
|00020000000|
|40|
|5523--------------------------------------|
|---------------------------33333333|
You can t swim in a town this shallow,
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|000200000000|
|40--------------------------------------0|
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|---------------------------333333333|
cause you will most assuredly drown tomorrow.
This is off an acoustic recording.
Its easiest if you finger pick it, but I think he uses a pick.
Tuning: Standard
Intro
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|10|
|000000| x4
||
||
|33333333|
Verse
||
|0000000|
|00000|
|4444|
||
|3333333300000000|
I m in Los Angeles today: It smells like and airport
||
|1p00|
|0000|
|222200002222222|
|333222223|
|0|
runway, jet fuel stenches in the cabin and lights flickering at random.
||
|1010|
|000000000000|
||
||
|3333333333333333|
||
|1000000|
|00000|
|4444|
||
|3333333300000000|
I m in Los Angeles today: Grabage cans comprise the
||
|1p00|
|000000000000|
|22220000222255555555222|
|33322222333333333|
|0|
medians of freeways always creeping even when the populations sleeping
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|1010|
|000000000000|
||
||
|3333333333333333|
Chorus 1
|-----------------------------------------------------------|
|0--------------------------10|
|00020000000|
|40|
|5523--------------------------------------|
|---------------------------33333333|
I cant see why you d want to live here.
Verse
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|0000000|
|00000|
|4444|
||
|3333333300000000|
I m in Los Angeles today: Ask a gas station employee
||
|1p00|
|0000|
|222200002222222|
|333222223|
|0|
if he ever had trouble breathing he said "it varies from season to season"
||
|1010|
|000000000000|
||
||
|3333333333333333|
||
|1000000|
|00000|
|4444|
||
|3333333300000000|
It s where our best are on display: motion picture actors
||
|1p00|
|000000000000|
|22220000222255555555222|
|33322222333333333|
|0|
houses maps are never ever current, so save your film and fifteen dollars.
||
|1010|
|000000000000|
||
||
|3333333333333333|
Chorus 2
|------------------------------|
|0--------------------0|
|000200|
|400|
|55232|
|---------------------------3|
I cant see why you d want to live here.
|------------------------------|
|0--------------------0|
|000200|
|400|
|55232|
|---------------------------3|
Bilboards reach past the tallest buildings,
|------------------------------|
|0--------------------0|
|000200|
|400|
|55232|
|---------------------------3|
"We are not perfect but we sure try,"
|----------------------------|
|0---------------------|
|00020|
|40|
|5523|
|----------------------------|
as UV rays "degradate" our youth with time.
Interlude
||
|10|
|000000| x4
||
||
|33333333|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|0300000000|
|00000-------------------0000|
|22200000022222|
|------------------------44444333333|
|----------------------------------------------------|
The vessel keeps pumping us through this entropic place
in the belly of the beast that is Californ-i-a
|----------------------------------------------------|
|0300000000|
|00000-------------------0000|
|22200000022222|
|------------------------44444333333|
|----------------------------------------------------|
I drank from the faucet and I kept my repceipt
for when they weigh me on the way out (here nothing is for free).
|----------------------------------------------------|
|0300000000|
|00000-------------------0000|
|22200000022222|
|------------------------44444333333|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------------|
|0300000000|
|00000-------------------00000|
|222000000222220|
|------------------------444443333330|
|-----------------------------------------------------2|
The greyhounds keep coming dumping locusts into the street
until the gutters overflow and Los Angeles thinks,
"I might explode someday soon."
Verse
||
|10|
|000000| x4
||
||
|33333333|
||
|0000000|
|00000|
|4444|
||
|3333333300000000|
It s a lovely summer s day and I can almost see a skyline
||
|1p00|
|0000|
|222200002222222|
|333222223|
|0|
through a thickening shroud of egos. Is this the city of angels or demons?
||
|1010|
|000000000000|
||
||
|3333333333333333|
||
|1000000|
|00000|
|4444|
||
|3333333300000000|
Here the names are what remain: stars encapsulate the gold lame
||
|1p00|
|000000000000|
|22220000222255555555222|
|33322222333333333|
|0|
and they need constant cleaning for when the tourists begin salivating.
Chorus 3
|-----------------------------------------------------------|
|0--------------------------10|
|00020000000|
|40|
|5523--------------------------------------|
|---------------------------33333333|
I cant see why you d want to live here.
|-----------------------------------------------------------|
|0--------------------------10|
|00020000000|
|40|
|5523--------------------------------------|
|---------------------------33333333|
Bilboards reach past the tallest buildings.
|-----------------------------------------------------------|
|0--------------------------10|
|00020000000|
|40|
|5523--------------------------------------|
|---------------------------33333333|
You can t swim in a town this shallow,
|---------------------------------------------------------------|
|0--------------------------10---------------------|
|000200000000|
|40--------------------------------------0|
|5523----------------------------------------2|
|---------------------------333333333|
cause you will most assuredly drown tomorrow.