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California
03:25
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CALIFORNIA
She’s going through her father’s things
Trying to find some clues
Vinyl records, old magazines
No sign of the dead man’s blues
Outside her window the world’s a mess
Kind of like that guitar in the corner
There with its broken neck
There’s handwritten posters of the five dollar shows
Long-haired boys in the city and they’re striking a pose
High top sneakers stuffed with tapered jeans
They’re somewhere on Broadway tonight and they’re making the scene
Did I ever tell you
Did I ever tell you
About California
There’s nothing special
Ain’t nothing special
About California
She don’t want to wind up
A wild time in a cardboard box
Left underneath the bed
With pages full of writer’s block
No, she’s going straight to the top
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Get Outta Town
03:34
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GET OUTTA TOWN
I wanted out of the south
Wanted it out of me
Didn’t plan on ever coming back
Until they buried me
I grew out of Johnny and Elvis
That Music City and the Memphis sound
Right there in the state that invented rock and roll
We made a plan
To get out of town
Koji Giles moved to Tennessee
He played guitar and his hair was long
Half Californian half Japanese
He called me dude and we sang some songs
I said I can’t end up like the rest
Playing Skynyrd in these honky-tonks
With the dreamers and the losers
And the ones who never knew when it was time
To get out of town
So goodbye to the country ways
To the windy back roads that lead to nowhere
Goodbye to the fire and brim-stoners
The naysayers and the nonbelievers
Goodbye to the sweet gutter angels in the parking lots
Where the hot summer rain separates from the grease spots
And the steam rises that suffocating air
Thick and slow as the molasses drawl that’s stuck in the throats
Of the ones who didn’t think you had the guts to
Get out of town
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Las Cruces Sunset
05:33
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LAS CRUCES SUNSET
The Jersey boys were holding court on the back of the bus
While Freddy from Philly delivered a soliloquy
Two hippie girls from Richmond with a bag full of drugs
Were trying to catch the Dead in Santa Fe
She had nothing to say
She stared out the window at the Las Cruces sunset
Dreaming of a day
She could come out of the shadows and never have to look back
At the cacti waving goodbye
And the tumble weeds, rolling across the highway
Some long haired boys from Georgia with rock and roll dreams
Had songs in their pockets they were headed to LA
And when the Northeast boys stopped talking
That’s when the babies started squawking
It was ninety degrees and smelled like seven states
She had nothing to say
She stared out the window at the Las Cruces sunset
Dreaming of a day
She could come out of the shadows and never have to look back
At the cacti waving goodbye
And the tumble weeds, rolling across the highway
Not far out of El Paso the bus rolled to a stop
The authorities came on board checking ID’s
She wished she was invisible and she might as well had been
‘Cause where there was a person now was just an empty seat
They drove her away
She stared out the window at the Las Cruces sunset
Dreaming of a day
She could come out of the shadows and never have to look back
At the cacti waving goodbye
And the tumble weeds, rolling across the highway
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Monumental Days
02:58
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MONUMENTAL DAYS
Nick and Uwe showed up at the station
Driving a Baja Bug
They said hey man you’re the secret weapon
Are you ready
Are you ready
Let’s blow this mother up
Come on come on these are monumental days
Come on come on these are monumental days
The hippies are protesting rockets
The president is bellicose
Don’t have two dollars in our pockets
Oblivious
Oblivious
To anything but rock and roll
Come on come on these are monumental days
Come on come on these are monumental nights
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5. |
Kicked Out
03:34
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KICKED OUT
Kicked out
Kicked out
Hello from the Golden State
Not famous yet but I’m a song away
Got a girl her name is Tuesday
She keeps me warm and fed on Sundays
When the door is locked a window opens
It’s hard to rock when you’re
Kicked out
Kicked out
Kicked out
No job nothin’ to lose
I’m payin’ my rock and roll dues
We been playin’ every night and day
Been waitin’ around for a big break
Send my love, send some money
PO box
Kicked out
Kicked out
Kicked out
Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey
Hello from the Golden State
Broke and hungry but I’m on my way
Got a girl her name’s Cindy
She let’s me raid her fridge on Wednesdays
In the other rooms, head trips drama
I’m the shy boy
Kicked out
Kicked out
Kicked out
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PBR
04:19
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PBR (Poor Boy Rock)
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Back On The Streets
02:58
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BACK ON THE STREETS
Ain’t seen Koji in a couple of days
He moved in with his girlfriend
I woke up out at Bodega Bay
Watchin’ the tide roll in
Back on the street again
Back on the street again
Someday my friend
It’ll be a story to tell
I been stayin’ at Bob’s out in his chicken shack
His dad’s one mean American
He don’t like it when you wear all black
And he don’t like a southern gentleman
Back on the street again
In the back seat again
Everything we did, was in the name of rock and roll
I don’t need very much space
You won’t even know I’m here
If you need me out of your face
I can make myself disappear
Gotta a big show in the city tonight
You know we’re paying to play
If we don’t the tickets that’ll be alright
She’ll be mine for a couple of days
Back on the street again
Knocked of my feet again
Someday my friend
Won’t it be a good story to tell
Back on the Street again
Back on the street again
Everything we did was in the name of rock and roll
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Backyard Party Circuit
03:30
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BACKYARD PARTY CIRCUIT
Kegs are in the kitchen
It’s two dollars at the door
She’s rude and bitchin’ yeah
She’s 19----84
The band’s loading in
Like it’s the first night of the tour
The amps are glowin’
The waves are rollin'
Sombody has stolen the cash
Won’t ever get too far
Playing the back yards
And we’ll never rock this hard again
Two hundred people
In the back getting drunk and stoned
Cop’s will break it up
Before we end the second song
They’re looking for the owners
I think they went to Hong Kong
The amps are glowin
The kegs are blowin’
Somebody’s stolen the cash
Rehearsed it and worked it
It’s the back yard circuit
And we’ll never be this good again
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Fall In Line
02:43
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FALL IN LINE
Here comes a new militia
Here come the black t-shirts
Rising up from the underground
They took the punks and poseurs
Down on Sunset
Now they’re headed up the coast
With an awful sound
You’d better fall in line
You better fall in line
And march
They got the gear and arsenal
They got whiskey breath
Those boys at Shrapnel are lightening fast
They fly beneath the airwaves
With songs of death
They’ll melt your face and take your cash
You better fall in line
You better fall in line
And march
You better fall in line
You better fall in line
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10. |
Stuck In Sonoma
02:41
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STUCK IN SONOMA
Well I could’ve gone to college but I chose the school of rock
Tore out of Appalachia to get my culture shock
The only thing I’m rockin’ now are the walls of the elite
Hangin’ Sheetrock in Sonoma and missin’ Tennessee
Yeah me and my guitar watch the cars on Highway 12
We used to rule this town now is going straight to hell
The drummer turned death metal and the singer’s smokin’ crack
I’m stuck in Sonoma but I ain’t ever goin’ back
Once I find my rhythm and make a little rhyme
I might just boogie woogie straight across that line
I’ve got a Keith Richards haircut and a phony Frankenstrat
I wish I had some whiskey but I’m drinkin’ grapes of wrath
Wearin’ out my welcome in the valley of the moon
Surfin’ couch to couch just tryin’ to find my groove
Stuck in Sonoma County
Stuck in Sonoma County
Stuck in Sonoma County
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Russian River
03:38
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12. |
Down The Road
04:17
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Kevin Abernathy Knoxville, Tennessee
He's an East Tennessee boy with a guitar and some songs, who likes hot wings n' beer.
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