G D
I'm in Los Angeles today...
D C
It smells like an airport runway.
B C
Jet fuel stenches in the cabin
Cmaj7 G
And lights flickering at random.
G D
I'm in Los Angeles today...
C B C
Garbage cans comprise the medians of freeways always creaping
Cmaj7 G
Even when the population's sleeping.
D B C
And I can't see why you'd want to live here.
G D
I'm in Los Angeles today...
C B C
Asked a gas station employee if he ever had trouble breathing
Cmaj7 G
And he said "It varies from season to season, kid."
G D
It's where our best are on display...
C
Motion picture actors' houses
B C
Maps are never ever current
Cmaj7 G
So save your film and $15.
D B C G
And I can't see why you'd want to live here.
D B C G
Billboards reach past the tallest buildings,
D B C G
"We are not perfect - but we sure try."
D B C G
As UV rays "degraded" our youth with time.
Bridge:
G G G G
Em G A7 C
Em G
The vessel keeps pumping us through this zentropic place
A7 C
In the belly of the beast that is Californ-i-a,
Em G
I drank from a faucet and I kept my receipts
A7
For when the weigh me on my way out
C
(Here nothing is free).
Em
The greyhounds keep coming
G
Dumping locusts into the street
A7
Until the gutters overflow
C
And Los Angeles thinks,
(single percussive strums)
C C C C (let it ring)
"I might explode
someday soon."
G D
It's a lovely summer's day
C B C
And I can almost see a skyline through a thickening shroud of egos.
Cmaj7 G
(Is this the city of Angeles or demons?)
G D
Here the names are what remain...
C
Stars encapsulate the golden age
B C Cmaj7 G
And they need constant cleaning for when the tourists begin salivating.
D B C G
And I can't see why you'd want to live here.
D B C G
Billboards reach past the tallest buildings,
D B C G
You can't swim in a town this shallow -
D B C G
as you will most assuredly drown tomorrow
