Why You'd Want To Live Here
Death Cab For Cutie
Letra

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This is off an acoustic recording.
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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.

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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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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.

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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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You can t swim in a town this shallow,

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cause you will most assuredly drown tomorrow.