In a matter of time,

There'll be a friend of mine

Gonna come to the coast,

You're gonna see him

Up close for a minute or two

While the ground cracks under you.



By the look in your eyes

You'd think that it was a surprise

But you seem to forget

Something somebody said

About the bubbles in the sea

And an ocean full of trees.



And you now, L.A.

Uptight,

city in the smog,

city in the smog.

Don't you wish that

you could be here too?

Don't you wish that

you could be here too?

Don't you wish that

you could be here too?



Well, it's hard to believe

So you get up to leave

And you laugh at the door

That you heard it all before

Oh it's so good to know

That it's all just a show for you.



But when the suppers are planned

And the freeways are crammed

And the mountains erupt

And the valley is sucked

Into cracks in the earth

Will I finally be heard by you.



L.A.

Uptight,

city in the smog,

city in the smog.

Don't you wish that

you could be here too?

Don't you wish that

you could be here too?

Don't you wish that

you could be here too?