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soul drifter
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0 posted 2006-06-03 10:08 AM


Always California

Somebody tell me why is it always California?
Why does every song I hear seem to revolve around California?
Los Angeles parties and lonely angels
San Francisco coffeehouses and foggy mission bells
and I'm stuck in the middle of this hellish oasis
wondering and wandering, where is my lover now?

Tomorrow I'll collect up the time gone by
for tonight I'm haunted by
the angel of Gram Parsons
and the seven deadly sins of Jim Morrison
let me in, baby
I'm choking on the fumes of the afternoon
and the breath you stole away from me

And the Beach Boys are telling me there's girls to be found there
with the silver saltwater and brilliant sunshine in their hair
but there's this dull thud in my heart that tells me to beware
of the empty promises injected into my veins tonight
down south of this ugly Eden, there's a traffic jam in my brain tonight

Tell my why it's always California?
Why does every girl I love abandon me for California?
What's with the heart attacks in between every desire?
I don't understand what's so special about this SoCal hellfire
and vacant-gazing metrosexuals you never get tired of
and so I'm sucked into the smoking blue crater called LA

Today I'm dusting off my wondering why
wonder for the dark polluted sky
and the demons of Hollywood
to break the spell, would if I only could
prove my love
to the mysteries lies in her deep brown eyes
falling down on me like an acid storm from above

And the Eagles are telling me I can never escape the dark hallways
with the screaming in the penthouse and dying in the words I need to say
but there's a desert in my mouth and my sanity gets lost in the fray
between the invisable stars and the plastic surgery moon tonight
to the west of this beautiful Purgatory, there's a firewall in my heart tonight

Somebody tell me why is it always California?
It's always the center of the known universe, ugly and beautiful California,
and here I am, a lonely man of the useless land between LA and NYC
flaming like a pheonix for my girl, for a little fix to douse the flames in me
and it really doesn't matter what she thinks of me, I'm gonna love her till the earth splits apart
and California sinks into the sea..

Should be any day now...

"Is any song worth singing if it doesn't help?" -- Wilco, 'Wishful Thinking'

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Sunshine
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Listening to every heart
1 posted 2006-06-03 10:21 AM



Enjoyed this very much...

I could give you a lot of responses
to all of the questions,
but for some reason,
I think you already know the answers.


Debo
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since 2006-04-18
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2 posted 2006-06-03 10:27 AM


Yeah they say that any day now this earth will split and California will be no more.
But I haven't seen it yet.
enjoyed this little piece of work

Debo

Martie
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3 posted 2006-06-03 10:37 AM


Wow!!  I had to read this since I'm a So Cal girl...and I'm impressed.  California is a place so filled with the world...all wrapped up in one state, even this week the beauty of clean air lays across the LA basin thanks to Santa Ana.  I love it...also your poem!
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4 posted 2006-06-03 07:58 PM


Ahh, California. My birthstate. The one I left and went back to so many times.
The last time I left her, I said it was forever. But who knows?
I've stayed away for 10 years, and a thousand reasons.
I always enjoy reading you.

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