The LA Podcast

We Built This Target


by LA Podcast
December 29, 2020

In the style of “We Built This City” by Starship

We built this Target

We built this Target by Home Depot

Built this Target

We built this Target by Home Depot

Say you are building a regular shopping place 

Say you don’t care if it is zoned for that kind of space

Knee deep in the CEQA, council’s in the fight

Too many stories, raising up the height

Garcetti, La Mirada, a fourteen-year battle, don’t you remember?

We built this Target, we built this Target by Home Depot

We built this Target, we built this Target by Home Depot

Built this Target, we built this Target by Home Depot

Someone’s always paying, his name is Doug Haines

You know he’s the only one in this association name

He just wants to stop this, in a half-unbuilt phase,

He calls it irresponsible, would rather see it razed

Garcetti, La Mirada, we blame you both, you know, don’t you remember?

We built this Target, we built this Target by Home Depot

We built this Target, we built this Target by Home Depot

Built this Target, we built this Target by Home Depot

Just wanna walk on Sunset, don’t wanna cross the street

Puh-lease give us sidewalk, O’Farrell, a place to put our feet!

Who would think the subway is not really that far?

Who cares, we’ve got a place to park—500 cars!

We always believed, Husk, that someday you’d come through

Looking for a miracle, breaking all the rules

I’m looking out over Hollywood
On another gorgeous sunny Saturday

And I’m seeing bumper to bumper traffic

Don’t you remember?

Looks like a lot of shoppers on Western
Heading into that parking garage

Garcetti, La Mirada, hate to say we told you so, don’t you remember?

We built this Target, we built this Target by Home Depot

We built this Target, we built this Target by Home Depot

Built this Target, we built this Target by Home Depot

Built this Target, we built this Target by Home Depot

Built this Target, we built this Target by Home Depot