Why You'd Want to Live Here (Band Demo)

[Verse 1]

I'm in Los Angeles today

It smells like an airport runway

Jet fuel stenches in the cabin

And lights flickering at random

[Verse 2]

I'm in Los Angeles today

Garbage cans comprise the medians

Of freeways always creeping

Even when the population's sleeping

[Refrain]

And I can't see why you'd want to live here

[Verse 3]

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"

[Verse 4]

It's where our best are on display

Motion picture actors' houses maps

Are never ever current

So save your film and fifteen dollars

[Chorus]

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

[Bridge]

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 my way out, here, nothing is free

But the Greyhounds keep coming, dumping locusts into the streets

'Til the gutters overflow and Los Angeles thinks

"I might explode someday soon"

[Verse 5]

And it's a lovely summer's day

I can almost see a skyline

Through a thickening shroud of egos

Is this the city of angels or demons?

[Verse 6]

And here the names are what remain

Stars encapsulate the golden lane

And they need constant cleaning

'Cause when the tourists begin salivating

[Chorus]

And I can't see why you'd want to live here

Billboards reach past the tallest buildings

You can't swim in a town this shallow

As you will most assuredly drown tomorrow