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West Coast

by Outer States

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there’s no christmas in california it’s plain apparent from geography when there’s no scene of snow or even hint of cold California keeps ya warm There’s no fires in fireplaces, no need for coats or knitted things When every tree stays evergreen Forgetfulness is easy California keeps ya company when you’re callin, when you ring that’s 3000 miles of wire shaking near the ocean, crashing waves make a static so loud it’s really hard to hear here anyways and that’s a california holiday when you’re callin, when you ring that’s 3000 miles of wire shaking near the ocean, crashing waves make a static so loud it’s really hard to hear here anyways California probably don’t need me but then ol Oregon gives December sunshine, in all that crystal clear christmas cold, it’s a lifetime away but i could use a holiday and california ain’t got my baby
2.
my friend stepped off a building he said he'd be okay pick up the mess, scrub cement how's that for altered brain effect Now I can't seem to shake it I try the wrong ways shaking, spinning, smashing ok, singing and spitting sounds away pray for ways to run without falling down pray for ways to get higher without stepping off yourself well my head can't be broken despite repeat attempts hydrate to save my own brain destroy to save the fuckin day oh i mindlessly try to kill every cell i've got repeat my head against the wall repeat my head fall and fall blame yourself for missing keep the sorrow strong lose your own ambition everything is always wrong when the stay drunk becomes the still drunk stay drunk still drunk stay still stay still I am actively destroying my body
3.
i don’t believe in real love come down from the mountain when enough’s enough i don’t believe in your pain you carry what you carry baby either way, if you don’t know what it is no you don’t know what it is sleeping around gets lonely no different then sleeping alone outside but when that rivers around me it ain’t keeping me warm tonight i’d really like to call but I got no phone tonight drinking alone just hydrates while birches in the wind make sound like rain every morning says the same birches never bring the water anyways and it hasn’t rained for days no it hasn’t leaned for days sleeping around gets lonely no different then sleeping alone outside but when that rivers around me it ain’t keeping me warm tonight Let go the ones who love you, keep the ones who treat you right the woods are filling with smoke they’re closing all of the roads We got no chance anymore Thank god for the river, the water’s cold sun’s getting low, i’ll find a place no sleeping near the river cause of runaways snakes in the water, not too safe, never vomit cause of drinking only cause i get sick
4.
it’s only blue through the front porch, getaway over mountain, past the tire swinging low past the fake lake, green and lavender, almost an hour, only feels a little a more oh my lord feel the warmth valley sun is always closer than you think oh my lord these dirty roads take me over to things i never knew i need green around the Sespe slick on grey rocks slipping sides, hitting water, burning hands there she goes and i seem to think of her like another one to try and understand oh my lord and all the earth i thank you for everything you’ve buried underneath but oh my lord when it grows I don’t understand whats coming up from me fruit fallin meat and pit slow rot under all of it walkin up the roads green fruit peels hard away, tasting bitter i can’t wait until it’s sweet oh, i don’t know is it lust or nausea all this hunger makes me swell up like its heat oh my lord and all the earth i thank you for everything you’ve buried underneath but oh my lord when it grows I don’t understand whats coming up from me fruit fallin meat and pit slow rot under all of it sweet tangerine sweet tangerine looking at the stars going up so clearly burning like they really know which way to spin looking over orchard oh sweet tangerine! it’s a slow grow waiting for the spring
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I don't wanna go To another funeral its hard to keep a hope death seems to follow me around All the different photos, Reading verses I've heard before. can you really love some body When they tend to come and go Kenny, Rick and Nicky, Gram and grandpa o They are all so beautiful We sing songs that I know i know that a drink looks better but it never does the trick stay awake for awhile things might be different soon enough Bad enough to be surprised by, it’s ok to ask for help there’s enough of accidental you don’t need decide yourself Mahoney, Bill and Emylee, gram and grandpa jones They are all so beautiful We talk about the ones we love Please don't make me go To another funeral I dont know you anymore but i love ya, don’t let it go

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released September 1, 2017

written & performed by Corey O'Hara

recorded Spring/Summer 2017
Uncle Bob's Castle
Yonkers, NY

mastered by Niels Pedersen
Davis, CA

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