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Why You'd Want To Live Here

from The Photo Album by Death Cab for Cutie

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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: garbage 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, kid."

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 a faucet and I kept my receipts for
when they weigh me on the way out (here nothing is 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 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.

You can’t swim in a town this shallow — you will most assuredly drown tomorrow.

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from The Photo Album, released October 9, 2001

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Death Cab for Cutie is an American alternative rock band formed in Bellingham, Washington in 1997. The band is composed of Ben Gibbard, Nick Harmer, Jason McGerr, Dave Depper, and Zac Rae. They have been nominated for eight Grammy Awards. The band’s tenth studio album ‘Asphalt Meadows’ is out now. ... more

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