Cifras Web

Why You'd Want To Live Here

Death Cab For Cutie

15 acessos

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."

Verse


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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.

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