Death Cab For Cutie - Why You'd Want to Live Here [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

I'm in Los Angeles today, it smells like an airport runway, jet fuel stenches
In the cabin and lights flickering at random

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

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"

It's where our best are on display; motion picture actors' houses maps are never
Ever current so save your film and $15

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 californ-I-A, I drank from a faucet and I kept my receipts for
When the weigh me on my way out (here nothing is free)
The greyhounds keep coming dumping locusts into the street until the gutters
Overflow and Los Angeles thinks, "I might explode someday soon"

It's a lovely summer's day and I can almost see a skyline through a thickening
Shroud of egos. (is this the city of angels or demons?)
Here the names are what remain: stars encapsulate the gold lame and they need
Constant cleaning for when the tourists begin salivating

You can't swim in a town this shallow, you will most assuredly drown tomorrow