Eating Avocados

I moved to South Dakota in a frenzy of emotions
I couldn't tell my eating habits from my addictions
I sold my record collection to buy a bus ticket
But I still bought a bagel with cream cheese every morning
I'm not sure that counts as an addiction, but I wrote a lot of songs scoffing at the
Midwest about the lack of salt on their everything bagels, if they even had them
If they even had them

But I'm stuck in the plains eating avocados
Can't afford the soy milk, it's too damn expensive

It's been about a year since I left the Northeast
And I miss the way the trees make the air kinda smell good
I thought the air would be cleaner way out here
Where there's not a big city for a couple hundred miles
But a haze and a stench fill the stagnant air every time it gets nice out
For more than two days

Now I'm lashing out unfairly at the Great Plains
Because of some nutritional deficiency or cynicism addiction
I got my wisdom teeth yanked
And I can't eat any food without getting chunks in the holes, and I'm out of painkillers
Now I just want a bagel without searing pain
Or a glimpse of the ocean and the sound of the waves

But I'm stuck in the plains eating avocados
Can't afford the soy milk, it's too damn expensive