Southern California Wants To Be Western New York-Dar Williams

[ti:Southern California Wants To Be Western New York] [ar:Dar Williams] [al:Mortal City] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.01]Southern California Wants To Be Western New York - Dar Williams [00:00.02]Written by：Dar William [00:00.04] [00:07.43]There's a part of the country [00:09.48]Could drop off tomorrow in an earthquake [00:12.24] [00:12.90]Yeah it's out there on the cutting edge [00:15.79] [00:16.36]The people move the sidewalks shake [00:18.49] [00:19.16]And there's another part of the country [00:21.05] [00:21.98]With a land that gently creaks and thuds [00:24.72] [00:25.48]Where the heavy snows make faucets leak [00:27.96] [00:28.77]In bathrooms with free-standing tubs [00:30.71] [00:31.62]They're in houses that are haunted [00:33.64] [00:34.42]With the kids who lie awake and think about [00:37.57] [00:38.98]All the generations past [00:40.42] [00:40.96]Who used to use that dripping sink [00:44.21] [00:47.57]Sometimes one place wants [00:49.17]To slip into the other just to see [00:51.95] [00:52.67]What it's like to trade its demons [00:54.86] [00:55.71]For the restless ghost of Mrs Ogilvy [00:58.15] [00:59.98]Used to pick the mint from her front yard [01:02.60] [01:03.16]To dress the Sunday pork [01:04.60] [01:05.57]Sometimes southern California wants [01:07.46] [01:08.42]To be western New York [01:10.43] [01:14.13]Wants to have a family business [01:16.07] [01:16.85]In sheet metal or power tools [01:18.70] [01:19.58]And it wants to have a diner [01:21.74] [01:22.65]Where the coffee tastes like diesel fuel [01:25.33] [01:26.00]And it wants to find the glory of a town [01:29.26] [01:29.84]They say has hit the skids [01:31.63] [01:32.30]And it wants to have a snow day [01:35.18]That will turn its parents into kids [01:37.53] [01:38.52]And it's embarrassed but it's lusting [01:40.58] [01:41.33]After a suny student with mousy brown hair who is [01:44.98] [01:45.56]Taking out the compost [01:46.83] [01:47.77]Making coffee in long underwear [01:49.76] [01:54.44]And southern California says [01:55.76] [01:56.67]To save a place I'll meet you there [01:59.59] [02:00.71]And it tried to pack up its miata [02:02.79] [02:03.58]All it could fit was a prayer [02:05.69] [02:07.08]Sometimes the stakes are bogus [02:08.68] [02:09.68]Sometimes the fast lane hits a fork [02:11.99] [02:12.69]Sometimes southern California wants [02:15.01] [02:16.09]To be western New York [02:17.80] [02:21.69]Tempe Arizona thinks the Everglades [02:23.78] [02:25.35]Are greener and wetter [02:26.37] [02:27.06]And Washington D C thinks [02:28.89] [02:29.49]That Atlanta integrated better [02:31.14] [02:32.01]But I think that southern California [02:34.67] [02:36.60]Has more pain that we can say [02:38.90] [02:39.57]'Cause it wants to travel back in time [02:42.48]But it just can't leave L A [02:44.14] [02:50.29]But now I hear they've got a theme park planned [02:53.27]Designed to make you gasp and say [02:55.44] [02:56.99]Bet that crumbling mill town [02:58.49] [02:59.04]Was a booming mill town in its day [03:01.60] [03:02.51]Old investors scoff at this but the young ones [03:06.28] [03:06.82]Hope they'll take a chance [03:08.29] [03:08.82]And they promise it will make more dough [03:12.07]Than Mickey Mouse in northern France [03:14.31] [03:15.05]And the planners got an opening day [03:17.58] [03:18.57]A town historian will host [03:20.50] [03:21.51]And the waitresses look like waitresses [03:23.64] [03:24.38]Who want to leave for the West Coast [03:27.22] [03:30.27]And they'll have puttering on rainy weekends [03:32.71] [03:33.50]Autumn days that make you feel sad [03:35.95] [03:36.53]They'll have hundred year old plumbing [03:38.77] [03:39.57]And the family you never had [03:41.45] [03:42.85]And a Hudson River clean-up concert [03:45.28] [03:46.06]And a bundle-bearing stork [03:47.97] [03:48.90]And I hear they've got a menu planned [03:51.60] [03:52.20]It's tray western New York western New York