Why You'd Want to Live Here

I'm in Los Angeles today
 It smells like an airport runway
 Jet fuel stenches in the cabin
 And lights flickering at random
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 I'm in Los Angeles today
 Garbage cans comprise the medians
 Of freeways always creeping
 Even when the population's sleeping
 
 And I can't see why you'd want to live here
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 I'm in Los Angeles today
 Asked a gas station employee
 If he ever had trouble breathing
 And he said, "It varies from season to season, kid"
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 It's where our best are on display
 Motion picture actors' houses maps
 Are never ever current
 So save your film and 15 dollars
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 And I can't see why you'd want to live here
 Billboards reach past the tallest buildings
 "We are not perfect, but we sure try"
 As UV rays degradate our youth with time
 The vessel keeps pumping us through this entropic place
 In the belly of the beast that is California
 I drank from a faucet, and I kept my receipt
 For when they weigh me on my way out here, nothing is free
 But the Greyhounds keep coming
 Dumping locusts into the streets
 'Til the gutters overflow and Los Angeles thinks
 "I might explode someday soon"
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 It's a lovely summer's day
 I can almost see a skyline through
 A thickening shroud of egos
 Is this the city of angels or demons?
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 And here the names are what remain
 Stars encapsulate the golden lame
 And they need constant cleaning
 For when the tourists begin salivating
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 And I can't see why you'd want to live here
 Billboards reach past the tallest buildings
 You can't swim in a town this shallow
 As you will most assuredly drown tomorrow