Why Youd Want To Live Here

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
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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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 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.


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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."

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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.