When Canyons Ruled The City

Artist: Butch Walker

Song: "When Canyons Ruled The City"

Album: "The Rise And Fall Of Butch Walker And The Let's-Go-Out-Tonites"

Okay, my first one was wrong. Here's a much better one.

I haven't notated the strumming patterns, I'm sure you can figure them out on your own.

Capo on 4th fret (3rd fret live)

Verse:

Laurel was a girl I knew, made of dirt and stone

Pretty hip in younger years, but now she sits alone

With a hundred thousand architectural disasters that

She calls homes

Beverly Glen was pretty, all the rich boys loved her curves

She tried to get the credit, sometimes more than she deserved

Like those cheesy 80's movies, epitomizing all things

We'd come to know

Verse 2:

Beachwood was a boheme from the sexy 60's scene

Grew up east of west Hollywood and somewhere in between

All the madness Laurel puts up with,

But somehow always tolerates a scene

Nicols, he had a way with the performing arts

A&R guys having cookouts on his back with super stars

But he had some nasty habits and some potholes to

Cover up this drama queen

Verse 3:

Sometimes Beachwood yelled at Laurel over terms of selling out

Then Laurel yelled at Beverly for not knowing what life's about

With her trust fund friends and family, it felt like an earthquake

When she'd shout

And Silverlake just stood there, with her nose up in the air

Pushing up her horn rimmed glasses saying,

"I don't fucking care about the madness all you idiots are buying,

Selling and leasing up there"

San Fernando was a struggling actor who drove a deli truck

On the sets of porno movies, he was just trying to make a buck

While his pilot was in escrow, he dreamed of

Dating Beverly one day