The World Began in Eden

“Don’t you think it’s time that we were leaving?

For another chance, another place to start

Desperate ones that went across the ocean

And they wondered how it would all turn out.

They landed on the coldest of the colonies

But still they wanted better than the rich

They built highways on the houses of the homesteads

It happened that way moving west.

So take a drive and breathe the air of ashes

That is, if you need a place to go.

If you have to beg or steal or borrow

Welcome to Los Angeles, City of Tomorrow”

– The World Began in Eden and Ended in Los Angeles, Phil Ochs