Do You Know The Way To San Jose by Bacharach and David

L.A. is a great big freeway
Put a hundred down and buy a car
In a week, maybe two, they'll make you a star
Weeks turn into years. How quick they pass
And all the stars that never were
Are parking cars and pumping gas

Grey in L.A. by Loudon Wainwright, from the film Knocked Up

And I'm just a chump, this whole town's a dump
We came out here to dump all our dreams
Of making it big but we're stuck in a Sig
alert nightmare - That's just how it seems

Brad Grey's in L.A. Yeah OK, I should stay
here - There's no place that's better I know
For a wannabe star, stuck in a car
On a freeway with nowhere to go