Why Youd Want To Live Here

(início)

Tabbed by: Joey B.
This is off an acoustic recording.
Its easiest if you finger pick it, but I think he uses a pick.
Tuning: Standard
 Intro

 Verse

      I'm in Los Angeles today:    It smells like and airport

 runway, jet fuel stenches in the cabin and lights flickering at random.

I'm in Los Angeles today:         Grabage cans comprise the

 medians of freeways always creeping even when the populations sleeping

 Chorus 1

 I cant see why you'd want to live here.
 Verse

      I'm in Los Angeles today:       Ask a gas station employee

 if he ever had trouble breathing he said "it varies from season to season"

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 2

 I cant see why you'd want to live here.

 Bilboards reach past the tallest buildings,

 "We are not perfect but we sure try,"

 as UV rays "degradate" our youth with time.
 Interlude

The vessel keeps pumping us through this entropic place
in the belly of the beast that is Californ-i-a

I drank from the faucet and I kept my repceipt
for when they weigh me on the way out (here nothing is for free).

The greyhounds keep coming dumping locusts into the street
until the gutters overflow and Los Angeles thinks,
"I might explode someday soon."
Verse

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

 and they need constant cleaning for when the tourists begin salivating.
 Chorus 3

 I cant see why you'd want to live here.

 Bilboards reach past the tallest buildings.

 You can't swim in a town this shallow,

 cause you will most assuredly drown tomorrow.