《Southern California Wants To Be Western New York》歌词

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[00:00:38] All the generations past

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

[00:00:47] Sometimes one place wants

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

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

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

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

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

[00:01:05] Sometimes southern California wants

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[00:01:45] Taking out the compost

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

[00:01:54] And southern California says

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

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

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

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

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

[00:02:12] Sometimes southern California wants

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

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

[00:02:25] Are greener and wetter

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

[00:02:29] That Atlanta integrated better

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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