If We'd All Been Living In California Lyrics

Ok, now you still want to get your name in the magazines
And he wants 500 dollars a month.
- Where does it come from?
We worked one gig this month.
- And thats....so what do we get?
Two hundred dollars for this gig up here if we're lucky.
- If we're lucky, we'll get two hundred.
And it will be two weeks before we get it.
Probably.
- I mean after all, what is all this shit in the newspaper,
if we got such a big name, how come....., we're starving man!
This fucking band is starving!

I realize it takes a long time but God Damn it!
Does it take another five, ten years from now.
- There's some months when you're not going to work as much as other
months. There's some months when you're going to make a lot of
money and if you average it out, you do make more than two hundredZappa Frank - If We'd All Been Living In California - http://motolyrics.com/zappa-frank/if-wed-all-been-living-in-california-lyrics.html
dollars a month.
- Expenses are sure high to.
If we'd all been living in California,
it would have been different.
- If we'd all been living in California,
we wouldn't have worked at all.
- Oh, that's true.
Well, we're not working now anyway.
We worked one gig this month Frank.
What's wrong with getting two months in a row of this good money?
- Or three months in a row.
- Then we could afford to take three of four months off
and everybody can......
After the first month I can get just enough ahead
but if I had two more months man,
I'll get ahead.
Because i'm not living very extravagantly, i'll tell you for sure