《Southern California Wants To Be Western New York》歌词

歌曲： Southern California Wants To Be Western New York

所属专辑：Mortal City

歌手： Dar Williams

时长： 04:10

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Southern California Wants To Be Western New York - Dar Williams[00:00:00]

There's a part of the country[00:00:07]

Could drop off tomorrow in an earthquake[00:00:09]

Yeah it's out there on the cutting edge[00:00:12]

The people move the sidewalks shake[00:00:16]

And there's another part of the country[00:00:19]

With a land that gently creaks and thuds[00:00:21]

Where the heavy snows make faucets leak[00:00:25]

In bathrooms with free-standing tubs[00:00:28]

They're in houses that are haunted[00:00:31]

With the kids who lie awake and think about[00:00:34]

All the generations past[00:00:38]

Who used to use that dripping sink[00:00:40]

Sometimes one place wants[00:00:47]

To slip into the other just to see[00:00:49]

What it's like to trade its demons[00:00:52]

For the restless ghost of Mrs Ogilvy[00:00:55]

Used to pick the mint from her front yard[00:00:59]

To dress the Sunday pork[00:01:03]

Sometimes southern California wants[00:01:05]

To be western New York[00:01:08]

Wants to have a family business[00:01:14]

In sheet metal or power tools[00:01:16]

And it wants to have a diner[00:01:19]

Where the coffee tastes like diesel fuel[00:01:22]

And it wants to find the glory of a town[00:01:26]

They say has hit the skids[00:01:29]

And it wants to have a snow day[00:01:32]

That will turn its parents into kids[00:01:35]

And it's embarrassed but it's lusting[00:01:38]

After a suny student with mousy brown hair who is[00:01:41]

Taking out the compost[00:01:45]

Making coffee in long underwear[00:01:47]

And southern California says[00:01:54]

To save a place I'll meet you there[00:01:56]

And it tried to pack up its miata[00:02:00]

All it could fit was a prayer[00:02:03]

Sometimes the stakes are bogus[00:02:07]

Sometimes the fast lane hits a fork[00:02:09]

Sometimes southern California wants[00:02:12]

To be western New York[00:02:16]

Tempe Arizona thinks the Everglades[00:02:21]

Are greener and wetter[00:02:25]

And Washington D C thinks[00:02:27]

That Atlanta integrated better[00:02:29]

But I think that southern California[00:02:32]

Has more pain that we can say[00:02:36]

'Cause it wants to travel back in time[00:02:39]

But it just can't leave L A [00:02:42]

But now I hear they've got a theme park planned[00:02:50]

Designed to make you gasp and say[00:02:53]

Bet that crumbling mill town[00:02:56]

Was a booming mill town in its day[00:02:59]

Old investors scoff at this but the young ones[00:03:02]

Hope they'll take a chance[00:03:06]

And they promise it will make more dough[00:03:08]

Than Mickey Mouse in northern France[00:03:12]

And the planners got an opening day[00:03:15]

A town historian will host[00:03:18]

And the waitresses look like waitresses[00:03:21]

Who want to leave for the West Coast[00:03:24]

And they'll have puttering on rainy weekends[00:03:30]

Autumn days that make you feel sad[00:03:33]

They'll have hundred year old plumbing[00:03:36]

And the family you never had[00:03:39]

And a Hudson River clean-up concert[00:03:42]

And a bundle-bearing stork[00:03:46]

And I hear they've got a menu planned[00:03:48]

It's tray western New York western New York[00:03:52]