2.2585 : 5/31/12 : Oceanside (Mt. Metaphor 54/58)

Can you believe
we been here like two weeks
and just now
finally get
down to the
Ocean side
Ain't no excuse
try to explain
but what's the use
get that top down
let's take the ride
11 long years
since we hit the Pacific
giver or take 3 day
to be specific
come big blue
carry me deep inside
I am here for you
down at Oceanside

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2.2584 : 5/30/12 : Old Mission (Mt. Metaphor 53/58)

Still on the old mission
you'd think I thoroughly failed
oh how I struggled
oh how I failed
Oh Mission Viejo
you're so by the book
I could use some central planning
ought to stop and take a look
Ought to look for a lesson
in your suburbs and such
did I think a little planning
was a little too much
but if the old mission
must truly persist
I need a plan for any hope
of hope to exist

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2.2583 : 5/29/12 : Happiest (Mt. Metaphor 52/58)

I'm taking you to
the happiest place on earth
remembering
32 years back
for what it's worth
Strange days
long years
and finally
this unlikely journey
imagined
and it gets me
to yearning
but we're not there
and no chance of going
excuse me
forgive me
my nostalgia is showing

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2.2582 : 5/28/12 : Golden Fish (Mt. Metaphor 51/58)

Skip the obvious sites
in Fullerton
nobody home in old haunts
So I'll move along
do a slow drive by
where he saw that golden fish
that served his battered brain
up a twisted little dish

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2.2581 : 5/27/12 : Glendora (Mt. Metaphor 50/58)

Are you a good witch
or a bad witch
Glendora I am here
and it's a bad sitch
sick of the trip
no destination
sick of reviewing
the situation
you seem like a nice town
nice place to visit
nice place to live
but I'm here to mix it
forgive me if I bomb
through like a gold rush
gotta put the hammer down
while I'm still flush

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2.2580 : 5/26/12 : Arcadia (Mt. Metaphor 49/58)

I could have lost you
to Arcadia
herbivore paradise
hardly ever hear from ya
Everything seems so random
but feels so specific
last leg is drifting us
along to the Pacific

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2.2579 : 5/25/12 : Santa Clarita (Mt. Metaphor 48/58)

Thank god for getting free
of thought heart and history
A long hard bomb
straight out of the mystery
Somewhere I never been
text me I'll meet ya
outside of El-Ay, Santa Clarita
Don't know a thing about it
what a relief
don't know a soul
Steal in like a thief
find me a room by a pool
and room service
let me write a quick line
how they don't deserve us
Let me write a postcard
wish you were here
Santa Clarita
my departure is near

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2.2578 : 5/24/12 : 25 (Mt. Metaphor 47/58)

25 years 30
maybe more
sometimes it turns out
you really closed a door
and there's really no one left
to go back there for
Tracy California
just one time more
could look at the old place
where I spent many a day
could go look at a stone
read what it has to say
Tracy's just a place
where you came from
but you are gone away
and I don't have a thing
beyond that
left to say

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2.2577 : 5/23/12 : Lodi (Mt. Metaphor 46/58)

Kids called us loadies
we called ourselves stoners
together just friends
together not loners
Lodi California
San Joaquin
gotta be crazy
choose this town to sing
Mispronounced thought
takes me back to my friends
Nearly another signal destination
not so far from there
the journey ends

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2.2576 : 5/22/12 : Sacramento (Mt. Metaphor 45/58)

Meet me in Sacramento
plan some bloodless sedition
I cannot believe how long it's been
since I have had a mission
I can see why people go
for militaries or the cults
might be nice to get some orders
might be worth the little insults
Sacramento California
now we have no history
you're on the way and I am in you
but soon you'll be rid of me
I leave behind the information
in a secret library
just plug into the connection
I can't wait until you see.

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2.2575 : 5/21/12 : Yuba (Mt. Metaphor 44/58)

Yuba City blues
standing with
rain in my shoes
nothing by the book
and still
firmly on the hook
there's still a
wicked piece to roll
and I am tired
down to my soul
and none can say
what freedom means
or what divides us
from machines

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2.2574 : 5/20/12 : Willows (Mt. Metaphor 43/58)

Get among the willows
hide under the branches
it's a tent a cave a fort
we're cowboys on ranges, ranches
I'm in my old country now
not been back in so long
not yet seen my Pacific
where the feelings get so strong
for now I'm in the willows
playing make believe for fun
not my younger, older self
not exactly anyone

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2.2573 : 5/19/12 : Red Bluff (Mt. Metaphor 42/58)

Charged right into
the catastrophe
with a red bluff
didn't have any other
information
So it had to
be enough
red handed
and yes
sometimes with a red face
I had a feeling
Red Bluff
would put me
in my place

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2.2572 : 5/18/12 : Lassen (Mt. Metaphor 41/58)

I won't remember
and it won't mean much
You look around all over
but never more shall touch
problems are all left on this side
Lassen were you worth the ride
I'm not done yet
are we having fun yet?

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2.2571 : 5/17/12 : Burney (Mt. Metaphor 40/58)

We didn't mean to
get off on a depression trip
and the demon of the perverse
how it made me quip
after you get rid of coincidence
and self-fulfilling prophecy
and shake off the road
ecstasy
you find yourself in Burney
Where you headed kid
for a change I know
I got a carved wooden plaque
which the volcano doth show
while my eyes got swimmy
and the roads got turney
I was thankful
to get off for a break
in Burney

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2.2570 : 5/16/12 : Grants Pass to Mt. Shasta 2 (Mt. Metaphor 39/58)

Grants Pass
no buddy that was miles back
did you have any business
you know we had to
backtrack but
when we hit the town
you didn't say a word
at least not that
we heard
Mt. Shasta looms
You ever been
feels like I have to have been
but boy I got nothin'
Imma need another detour
through Lassen, boo
I got some
kind of dodgy recall
about that one too

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2.2569 : 5/15/12 : Grants Pass to Mt. Shasta 1 (Mt. Metaphor 38/58)

Grants pass
are we in California yet
are you OK friend
you're looking rough again
I bet
you picked something
else up on the road
when we
get to Mt. Shasta
you better
try and feed that cold

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2.2568 : 5/14/12 : Eagle Point (Mt. Metaphor 37/58)

I'd like to get some
of that Castaneda style
bullshit magic
shit on
dream real up at Eagle Point
Eagle Spirit yeah
get crazy
get hit on
I'm going to make
a fetish bag
and a special hat
going to mix up potion
how about that
and at the knot
of the root
I shall anoint
and take flight
in astral aspect
up at Eagle Point

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2.2567 : 5/13/12 : Junction (Mt. Metaphor 36/58)

Connection connection
Looking to spread like an infection
partners of the insurrection
do not shirk
my fierce correction
Though change is never pretty
nor can be forged in some ditty
for beginning you must get thee
down and out in
Junction City
City of the future
that I dreamed of long
deserted metal skin
I sang it in a song
the dream I had the time so far gone
and if I said I didn't miss it
I wouldn't be all wrong
but I am one
for knowing when a thing is done
and there are others to relate
you're not the only one
Here in Junction City
you're going to find you need
your friends my son
and even so someday
on
connections you'll have none

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2.2566 : 5/12/12 : Salem (Mt. Metaphor 35/58)

I'm sure they never burned
no witches in Salem
Oh Are
too busy climbing pretty
mountains
strumming on the
guitar
Oh Salem you
shall be my gateway
to a real path
up and out
and if you were left
underwhelmed
the next will
leave you with no doubt

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2.2565 : 5/11/12 : Portland (Mt. Metaphor 34/58)

I know I'll see a true friend
in Portland town
I don't believe any of
the put downs
that hipster dig
is so played out stale
Portland I will come
and really tell your tale
I know my good friend
will give me good advice
and just this one time
I won't have to be told twice
They'll show us the sights
and we'll trade all sorts of yarns
see the whole Portland picture
from skyscrapers to barns

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2.2564 : 5/10/12 : Woodland (Mt. Metaphor 33/58)

And let me go to ground
in the Woodland
half praying
not to rise again
oh but I will
and I'll toil
working in the city
dreaming of the
Woodland soil

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2.2563 : 5/09/12 : Long View (Heights) (Mt. Metaphor 32/58)

Standing on some corner
up in Longview Heights
sing sorry but it's going to
be another one of
those kinds of nights
I should explain
rise above
be true
I should pull myself
together and
take the long view
but I'm not
I'm hurting
sad and tired
not tonight
for tonight boys
consider me retired

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2.2562 : 5/08/12 : Centralia (Mt. Metaphor 31/58)

Centralia
I'm in the middle of something
for sure
I got to tell you
the last few
are about all I can endure
Your history looks
fascinating
storied picturesque
but I by god
must break the metaphor
and desperately
escape this desk

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2.2561 : 5/07/12 : Olympia (Mt. Metaphor 30/58)

Great Olympia
might as well pray to to you
your mountain pantheon
could just ignore me too
if there is no interference
from a transcendent realm
what exactly's the argument
who exactly is at the healm
Olympia
Shine above me oh Mount Metaphor
help me deal with
my spell of falling apart
Look down as I am restored

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2.2560 : 5/06/12 : City of Destiny (Mt. Metaphor 29/58)

City of destiny
end of the west
what is my destiny
here at the crest
feel like everything's twisting
like the narrows bridge
what's going to come apart first
maybe privilege
maybe persistence yeah
maybe today I give up
right here in Tacoma
throw down the cup
howl at the affliction
sit right down and sob
no destiny awaits
I'm not the one for this job

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2.2559 : 5/05/12 : Federal Way (Mt. Metaphor 28/58)

I guess it's embarrassing how
little I knew
about the Federal Way
I've heard about
the arguments of course
but what they really were
I couldn't say
I should read up I guess
but the list is so long
and the days just fly
and as we get along
to Federal Way
I wonder how I ended
up that guy
how so much
passed me by
And I shouldn't be
thinking about such stuff
after such a long
and trying day
but it's just where my thoughts
took me
when I saw the sign
for Federal Way

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2.2558 : 5/04/12 : Kent (Mt. Metaphor 27/58)

Anyway I guess we'd stay
in Kent for the night
I heard they have a nice lake
And if the whole trip
feels like a mistake
halfway well anyway
it's not as bad as
that time I rewrote the inferno
and won't be half
as long, I'm pretty sure, no

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2.2557 : 5/03/12 : Seattle (Mt. Metaphor 26/58)

Seattle what could
anyone say about you
especially
an unknown alternative
musical prodigy
like me except
for the prodigy part
Seattle you're the best
Seattle you got heart
I've been up the Space Needle
long ago when I was little
Seattle my project
got a bit obtuse
Oh Seattle you know
what it's like
So what's the use?

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2.2556 : 5/02/12 : Issaquah (Mt. Metaphor 25/58)

Back to reality
Issaquah
if you call memory
the real hurrah
a place I've been
though a long time gone
make the mountain passage
now I sing my song
I've got no sentiment
but I'll recall you
nonetheless
and those who know
will understand
the rest will have
to guess

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2.2555 : 5/01/12 : Cle Elum, Roslyn (Mt. Metaphor 24/58)

Swift water or
clare de lune
Roslyn
as you like it
here's a little tune
you had your great fire
just like all great towns
I hope you're not
too dignified
to suffer us clowns
Cle Elum, Roslyn
swift water passing
when I leave dear Roslyn
I fear you'll be alas-ing

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