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California

from YODELADY by Todd Hearon

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lyrics

CALIFORNIA

Well now that you’ve decided that we’re all out of time
And the future is a party that we missed
And the headlights stretch forever from the continent’s divide
And the past is just a place that don’t exist
There’s U-Hauls pulling out of Austin
The Colorado like a blacksnake coiled with smoke
And the highway has the desolation after New Year’s Day
In the breaking dawn above the Broken Spoke

California I can hear you calling in the crawling of my mind toward a light I’ll never find
It’s the morning just before you’re born and every time you’re torn away from all you’ll never
leave behind

You can see the lights of Hollywood from Mulholland Drive
A sunken constellation full of fallen stars
It’s all the raging with the waves and all the bullshit and besides
If you don’t look too deep you’ll never see so far
There’s a full moon tonight over Austin
The Colorado Basin full of snow
You can’t hang your hat on hope and home is just a state of mind
If you don’t lose it now and then you’ll never know

California I can hear you calling in the crawling of my mind toward a light I’ll never find
It’s the morning just before you’re born and every time you’re torn away from all you’ll never
leave behind

Well I’d be lying if I told you I could hold you and I guess
I’d be lying to say I didn’t see it coming
With you sitting on the church porch in your mama’s wedding dress
Strumming that old tune by Leonard Cohen
I remember you well in the Taco Bell
We hit on the way out of Austin

California I can hear you calling in the crawling of my mind toward a light I’ll never find
It’s the morning just before you’re born and every time you’re torn away from all you’ll never
leave behind

It’s the way
You get caught in the bright new day
And let the light amaze your mind
Anyway
It’s too much of a price to pay
To let the light erase your mind

You can see the lights of Hollywood from Mulholland Drive
A sunken constellation full of fallen stars
It’s all the raging with the waves and all the bullshit and besides
You’ve never seen a thing so beautiful before

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from YODELADY, released August 5, 2023

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Todd Hearon Exeter, New Hampshire

Born in Fort Worth, Texas, and raised in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, Todd Hearon is a poet, author and songwriter living in Exeter, New Hampshire. His two studio albums are YODELADY (2023) AND BORDER RADIO (2021); he's also the author of three volumes of poems, a number of plays and essays, and a novella.

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