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?