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Engage
01:39
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I cannot put my finger on the realm of memory
Evoked by things in passing that you just happen to see
Was it something from a film or a picture in a book?
Something that seems present when you just happen to look
Something from the twenties, something by the beach
Something of the trees that must needs stay out of reach
Something from the past that is still there in the night
Something from a painting, the color and the light
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Quiet
01:19
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Many things are quiet in the morning light
Like mountains when the day begins up near
A tree is glittering in the late afternoon
These are some things from which you do not hear
Things do not look the same at different times of day
The light makes color through the atmosphere
And sometimes up there filtered from behind a cloud
It is a thing from which you do not hear
The music that is playing is a song recorded forty years ago
You close your eyes and hear the tune
And fall asleep, you’re somewhere in some dream
And that’s a quiet realm for you
Here in the light of afternoon
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Streetlight People
02:02
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I learned to look, to look at the buildings that run along the sidewalk
I always forget until I remember to turn off the inner talk
On the streets, the lamps come on
From buildings casting light
I’ve never seen this street before
But something strikes me right
People they live, they live in these buildings
A life in another place
Still here from the old world, the lights on the fourth floor
We’ve entered a different space
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Light Boxes
02:18
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Light boxes are on tonight
People waiting for a flight
Advertising airline names
They’re encased in metal frames
Flying up over the town
Plane is starting to come down
What’s the weather like out there?
Step outside and feel the air
Light boxes in corridors
Escalator to other floors
Soon we’ll see some new terrain
Going there in an airplane
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I Could Live Here
02:23
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I could live here in modern apartments
I could live here in condominiums
I could live here if I had another life
I could live again
I could live here
I could live here in industrial spaces
I could live here if it’s not gentrified
I could live here if things went a certain way
I could take a chance
I could live here
I could live here in human form
If everything adds up just so
A viable scenario for life
To live in this abode
And go on down the road
Look at the view from here
Let’s go another year
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This Is the City
01:36
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This is the city, built on the hillside
This is the sunshine, this is a car ride
This is the sixties, these are TV shows
This is 2000s, that’s how the time goes
Cars lined up in the parking lot, the heavy metal parking lot
We want to live more centrally, we want to live more vertically
These are the pamphlets for the locations
Hotel lobbies, people’s vacations
This is the city
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Map Reference Point
01:54
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I would not argue with the sun or with the periwinkle sky
I live between the desert and the sea
The seasons and the calendar, the ways we have to measure time
They place me in present reality
The map reference point, the distance from July
The palm trees are evergreens propped up against the sky
The structures that remain, mid-century design
Cruising the 714 and 619
You lived there with your record collection
You lived there upon the second floor
The wind carries the essence of the ocean
There are condos built in 1994
The map reference point, experiential truth
Exit Katella Avenue and pull up to the booth
The structures that remain, mid-century design
Cruising the 714 and 619
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Tipai-Ipai
01:54
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This is the Brady Bunch house
This is the place where the Seeds rehearsed
This is a bedroom community
Built in the sixties but not here first
Land of Tipai-Ipai, a place where we are lucky to be
The cliffs looked out on the ocean before the sixteenth century
This is a baseball park
Expansion franchises out on the coast
Portraits of the all stars
Hung from facades and from a lamppost
Land of Tipai-Ipai, where the sun sets behind the sea
Granite hills and tablelands, let’s build a better history
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