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Promise (Venice Beach)
01:42
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Venice, my darling you can’t come quick enough
Venice, my darling you can’t come quick enough
I miss your promised lands
I miss your golden sands
Venice, my darling you can’t come quick enough
Wonder why you hold me
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Affluence surrounds me
Abundance of rich, tanned faces
Shopping bags hold Prada
But Rodeo Drive is far away
Here we are on 3rd Street
Spitting dinosaurs line the promenade
The palm trees here as native
As the wannabes who make their home here
Neon that you can’t escape from
Neon Santa Monica
Ferris wheel forever
The rollercoaster shakes this timber
Dipping dots and skeeball
Arcane arcades are made of quarters
Happiness and seafood
That’s what they sell you here
Lick it up just like the
Pacific does upon these stilts
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Can you believe all the
Dust on your jeans
As you wander ahead
Of the pack?
Ever so close yet
You’re ever so far
With the Sun beating
Down on your back
Blue is fading
It’s time to get a move on
You spit and curse
That you don’t have better shoes on
Don’t you start to cry!
Look around you
It is golden
Look around you
The Sun is molten
Look around you
At the ocean
Look around you
High emotion
Giddy again as you
Take in the sight
Of LA and its
Infinite roads
So many tourists
And so many purists are
Speaking in their
Little codes
The Sun is bouncing
Off every metal surface
Griffith’s legacy is
Looking so perfect
Don’t you start to cry!
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One thousand lions for
Just a morsel of meat
And they’re out in the street
I’m sure they sell you coffee
They have to make sure
That they’ve shaken their mane
To be king of the plain
It isn’t so simple
Out in Hollywood
Out in Hollywood
There is a jungle
At the oasis
It’s a glamorous club
Where they don’t allow cubs
The buffalo are kingpins
The monkeys look on
As they swing in the trees
They’re so easily pleased
Just give them a banana
(Just another one)
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PCH
02:21
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Corridors (Berkeley)
02:29
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Settle in the tree-lined
Corridors of College Avenue
Socialise with students with
Appetites, here to get some food
Take a look at the young minds
Take a look at the young minds
Take a look at the young minds
And see the future
Every thought is a gift so don’t mess it up
Every thought is a gift so don’t mess it up
Liberalised, lazy, not crazy
Just want to have some fun
Worship in the shadow of Ginsberg
He lived just over there
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Looking out from Pier 39
Nostrils sting from slumbering sea lions
Alcatraz, the fortress on the sea
Thankfully not what it used to be
Tourist trap that we know that it is
Still, we want to tick it off our lists
Wait until you set foot in Boudin
Biggest bread bowls that you’ve ever seen
Simply float away
On the open bay
Take this gorgeous day
Simply float away
Setting sail from Fisherman’s Wharf
Check the instruments and check our course
The piers stick out like rows of jagged teeth
Gesturing to distant coral reef
Sudden increase in your heart rate
When you look upon the Golden Gate
Floating ferries find their way home
Over awesome azure foam
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Kerouac (North Beach)
03:36
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Kerouac and Cassady
Live on as shadows here
Italy is all I see
Cafes, imported beer
Painted walls
And market stalls
Can’t complete
King of the Beats
Melodies of Cadillacs
Erased by hybrid hum
Some of me would put it back
I’d drink, live like a bum
Back then it was scintillating
All that died, it is so frustrating
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Acres (Twin Peaks)
03:46
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Here we are above
California golden acres are
Glowing out of sight
Muni trains and microscopic cars
We can see it all
All the way to Mount Diablo
See what’s in between
Bridge and bay, a blue kaleidoscope
Stretching out my limbs
Finger lengths away from touching God
Sutro Tower high
Crooked like an awkward fishing rod
Goodbye is getting close
I don’t really wish to leave
Goodbye is getting closer
I don’t really wish to leave
Fighting through the fog
Shimmering, a silver ocean kiss
Tiny little boats
Out upon the Bay that I will miss
A place I can be my own
A place I can call a home
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