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

Lyrics:

I'm in Los Angeles today: It smells like an 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 population's sleeping.
And I can't see why you'd want to live here.

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, here."
It's where our best are on display:
motion picture actors' houses maps are never ever current,
so save your film and fifteen dollars.
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.
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."

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?
And here the names are what remain: stars encapsulate the golden lame
and they need constant cleaning for when the tourists begin salivating.
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
because you will most assuredly drown tomorrow.

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[kylemiles11]

I LOVE THIS SONG!

[aleceiffel720]

It's sad to know that Ben Gibbard now lives in Los Angeles..

[katyagorm]

it's not sad for someone to live in a place they don't think is the absolutely BEST PLACE EVER OMG. come on guys. this song was written years and years ago, yet if you've ever actually been to LA, even if you live there or have lived there before, this song still rings true. i used to live in washington and i LOVED IT and want to go back.... but if my work or some loved ones lived in LA i'd live there too. you don't know this guy so please leave him alone.

[JCC1004ALT]

@FOURTEEFIVE

You missed my point. It's not about if it makes me cry or not. This whole song is just saying what is wrong with the world and a great place to get absorbed into all of it. As aleceiffel720 said the guy who writes this now lives in the exact town he called shallow. It just goes to show how little his own lyrics mean to him.

[LIEKDAVIDLEEROTH]

sophomore year, man.

[FOURTEEFIVE]

@JCC1004ALT

they had a whole album about growing old and dying, just because this song wont make you cry, doesnt mean it lacks meaning

[JCC1004ALT]

@aleceiffel720

Your kidding me? DCFC really has gotten worse. : / It's still good music but it's losing a lot of it's meaning anymore.

[midnightwallflower]

Hipster.

[xchiaroscura]

Californ-eye-ay.