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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Verse
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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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Chorus 1
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I cant see why you'd want to live here.
Verse
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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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Chorus 2
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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.
Interlude
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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.
Chorus 3
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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.
