[Verse 1]
Do you have to look away
When you pass by the diner
Where the squad car stops for coffee?
Don't you wish that you were anyplace else but here?

[Verse 2]
And don't you feel kinda funny
When a man in a suit says
"Man, do you know where I can get high?"
Don't you wish that you were anyplace else but here?

[Chorus 1]
Take a walk down any street that you choose
Yeah, and you'll wind up with the Fairfax Street
Mid-morning paranoia blues

[Verse 1]
Do you have to look away
When you pass by the diner
Where the squad car stops for coffee?
Don't you wish that you were anyplace else but here?

[Verse 3]
Do you grab a cigarette
When a man in an unmarked Plymouth
Pulls you over just to say hi?
Don't you wish that you were anyplace else but here?
[Verse 4]
And do you fumble in your wallet
While you're looking for your license?
And he tells you not to talk with your mouth full?
Don't you wish that you were anyplace else
Don't you wish that you were anyplace else
Don't you wish that you were anyplace else but here?