Song Lyrics Dar Williams - Southern California Wants To Be Western New York    [Lyrics & Song Text Archive] lyrics archive>> D>> Dar Williams Singer Lyrics [Dar Williams other resources]>> Southern California Wants To Be Western New York Song Lyrics Author/Artist/Singer: Dar Williams Music Title/Track: Southern California Wants To Be Western New York Theme ID: 4311 Album: N/A There's a part of the country could drop off tomorrow in an earthquake, Yeah it's out there on the cutting edge, the people move, the sidewalks shake. And there's another part of the country with a land that gently creaks and thuds, Where the heavy snows make the faucets leak in bathrooms with free-standing tubs. They're in houses that are haunted, with the kids who lie awake and think about All the generations past who used to use that dripping sink. And sometimes one place wants to slip into the other just to see What it's like to trade its demons for the restless ghost of Miss Oglivey. She used to pick the mint from her front yard to dress the Sunday pork, Sometimes southern California wants to be western New York. It wants to have a family business in sheet metal or power tools, It wants to have a diner where the coffee tastes like diesel fuel, And it wants to find the glory of a town they say has hit the skids, And it wants to have a snow day that will turn its parents into kids, And its embarrassed, but it's lusting after a SUNY student with mousy brown hair who is Taking out the compost, making coffee in long underwear. And southern California says to save a place, I'll meet you there, And it tried to pack up its Miata, all it could fit was a prayer, Sometimes the stakes are bogus, sometimes the fast lane hits a fork, Sometimes southern California wants to be western New York. Tempe, Arizona thinks the Everglades are greener and wetter, And Washington, D.C. thinks that Atlanta integrated better, But I think that southern California has more pain than we can say, Cause it wants to travel back in time, but it just can't leave L.A. But now I hear they've got a theme park planned, designed to make you gasp and say, Oh, I bet that crumbling mill town was a booming mill town in its day, And the old investors scoff at this, but the young ones hope they'll take a chance, And they promise it will make more dough than Mickey Mouse in northern France, And the planners planned an opening day, a town historian will host, And the waitresses look like waitresses who want to leave for the west coast. And they'll have puttering on rainy weekends, autumn days that make you feel sad, They'll have hundred year old plumbing and the family you never had, And a Hudson River clean-up concert and a bundle-bearing stork, And I hear they've got a menu planned, its tres western New York. Related Lyrics Random lyrics: The Christians and the Pagans, The Christians The Pagans, The End Of The Summer, The Great Unknown, The Mercy of the Fallen, The Ocean, The One Who Knows, The Pointless, Yet Poignant, Crisis Of A Co-Ed, The Pointless, Yet Poignant, Crisis Of A Co-Ed, The Worlds Not Falling Apart, This Was Pompeii, Traveling Again, Traveling Again (Traveling I), We Learned The Sea, What Do You Hear in These Sounds, What Do You Love More Than Love, When I Was A Boy, When Sals Burned Down, Whispering Pines, Wilder Than Her, Youre Aging Well, Your Fire Your Soul, Dormir dehors, Calm Before Thunder, Nemesis, Sad Life Philosophy (Older Version), Stranger, Valley Of Misery, Friends Strangers, Bleed For Me, Bring Me To Life, Caught In The Rain, For You, Hang On, Learn The Hard Way, Let Go, My Immortal, Right Before Your Eyes, Sad Exchange, The Man Without Fear, Let Go, Hate You, ...Of Broken Stones, A Path In The Dust, A Prophecy Of Immortality, Arcanum Mortis, As Old As The Bones Of The Earth, Caverna Obscura, Dark Horizons, Demon Eyes, Other Dar Williams song Lyrics After All Lyrics All My Heroes Are Dead Lyrics Alleluia Lyrics And A God Descended Lyrics Another Mystery Lyrics Are You Out There Lyrics Arrival Lyrics As Cool as I Am Lyrics Beauty Of The Rain Lyrics Better Things Lyrics Bought And Sold Lyrics ...Show All Other Artists Daran et les chaises Lyrics Darcane Lyrics Darci Cash Lyrics Daredevil Lyrics Daredevil soundtrack Lyrics Daredevils Lyrics Dargaard Lyrics Darin Bobby Lyrics Darin Zanyar Lyrics Darina Lyrics All lyrics are property and copyright of their owners and are strictly for educational purposes only. lyricstrue.net Copyright © 2005-2007 All Rights Reserved., , Privacy policy