Dar Williams - Southern California Wants To Be Western New York

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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 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



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 Mrs. Ogilvy



Used to pick the mint from her front yard

To dress the Sunday pork

Sometimes southern California wants

To be western New York



Wants to have a family business

In sheet metal or power tools

And 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 it's 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 that 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

Bet that crumbling mill town

Was a booming mill town in its day



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 got 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

It's tray western New York, western New York

© BURNING FIELD MUSIC;




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