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Golden State
05:17
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what do you do here?
and who do you work with?
I'm trying to get them to kick me out
but it isn't quite working
we got Kashmiri glass and some Nepalese shirts
when we moved out to Berkeley from Houston
while I lectured the class
you were lost in the stacks
of the East Asian collection
did your internship offer?
and did you finish your masters?
how's the rent up in Richmond?
you're your parents disaster
can your tiger hat protect you from the ocean?
walk across the bay bridge tied to who you think you'll die with
they say Outer Sunset's cute
kids on macbooks in their bedrooms
well that's what I want I guess
eat in cafes, San Francisco
take a trip up to Astoria
afraid there's nothing left here for ya
is this new life worth it to ya?
have a beer, here kid you've earned it
well you've earned it
come on then
let’s go off to New Zealand
Christchurch would be perfect
is that what you’re thinking
I’d bartend
and you’d work in a florist
I wish I could tell you
that it’s what I wanted
Texas burns in flames behind me
come and find me
we’ll take shots until its dark
then wander barefoot through the grass of UC Berkeley
when will this all end dear
I think that i’ll die here
news feeds would be tragic
isn’t that romantic?
flash back to 2015
in medias res and mis en scene
every night I was smoking weed
on our couch in front of our house on Ward Street
kimiko flew in from Japan
and I took her down to Stanford
to meet with some professors
while I sat up on the roof of my highlander
and surveyed the kids on campus
wondering if this was the answer
the eastern ideal of excellence
and 4.5% acceptance rates
it’s hard to illustrate the golden state’s effect on me
without psychedelic imagery
of veins cut open, bleeding colors endlessly
and I guess there’s not a better city to walk in drunk at night
come up on Corona Heights
to see the bay bridge strike the water back to Berkeley’s lights
and part of me still sits there
upon a rooftop, lost in drunk thoughts
awesome sacred views from hillocks
repeating mantra, saying hold on
to this darkened landscape for a moment longer
and hear the ghosts of science grad school
whisper to you not to do drugs
but to look up
at the vast and empty stars above 2010s California
pacific dreams can’t be lost
and you are not lost
cause I have found you here in this song
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God is a Wind Turbine
02:51
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mark me down as did not play: death in family
don’t come find me
i’ll not be brandishing banners
i’m not interested in answers
take the scarves off, put the flags down
90 minutes, 0-0
everyone outside is disappeared or frozen
that is fine, that’s how i like them
it’s fine, it’s how i like them
and when the town unfreezes
and the plaza fills with people
I will sit outside a bar and drink a cana or a beer or two
it’s all I really wanna do
a game is on, real madrid is playing 4-4-2
and i love to watch while i become the world cup champion
of learning not to grieve cause I can handle it
and i will give the eulogy and i will nail it
and they’ll say boy that kid’s intelligent
he’s great at making As and watching soccer
and not talking to his family
an endless stream rainbow colored blood runs from my irises to ground
along the stones and streets to churches that were built back when
Cortes brought gold and riches home
and the Americas are excellent
this continent can never hurt hurt you
and driving through Wyoming isn’t lonely if you’re broken too
geography is apathetic
and god is a wind turbine blowing Spanish through the mountains
if you listen you can hear the ghosts of border crossings running from the feds
who you can follow to a village in the desert
that will render itself empty if you let it
well it can all be empty
tripping through the colors I can’t name
and can’t remember if I saw
and will never see again
til a blood sacrifice on pyramid
where my heart is ripped out and held up to the sun
and corpse goes tumbling down the stairs
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UT Kirin Austin, Texas
Bedroom indie rock project of one HR Huber-Rodriguez.
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