I love this song, by the Charlotte band ISHI (now disbanded, I think).

"cafe america"
there must be a corner café somewhere along the way,
most every place we stay
there must be a Main & Broadway in every town we play our music every day.
there are brazen similarities in America,
the scarcity of a single stretch of highway minus signs;
and yet with all their advertising ill-advising me
there's no direction I can see that I could buy.
why my mind is drifting back to you in your city far away
I truly cannot say
whatever I could find there could not possibly reward me
as does my solitude this day.

yeah, right - that's what I tell myself
tumbling & laughing through moments of gold
yeah, right - why should I put up a fight when darkness overtakes me,
chains me down and breaks me...

there must be a corner café in that city where you stay,
that seems so far away
there must be a Main & Broadway in your city of L.A.,
where the sun shines every day.
and there are brazen similarities, the scarcity of those who see
integrity as a thing that has to be;
but I had to believe that someday you would leave -
thought "you're a lot like me," sure that we agreed.
why my mind was drifting back to you in your city far away
I truly cannot say whatever I did find there could not possibly reward me
as does my solitude this day.
freedom these days slips away easy-like
it's not as if there are people dying in a foreign war.
it's not as if we've been burdened by the weight of the state of this world before