The January Cold

Godfather.Godfather. Posts: 12,504
edited January 2012 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
San Diego is just a kiss away
Like a gypsy sitting on the oceans coast
Misty in the morning like a painted lady
She has everything a man could ask for
Just outside the southern border she is waiting there
Dancing in the streets
Smiling
As she wraps herself around you.

The January cold and the holy ghost
Ride along up her California coast past the spirits and towering redwood trees
Where time stands still and the moon sits high for all to see
Beauty so intense she’ll bring a tear to your eye
As you raise your hands and try to touch the sky
Everything around you is clean and wild.

Like a dream catcher hanging in a small saloon
In the back of the bar above the empty bottles and broken jars
You make a wish and pray it makes past this lonely room.

Stars shoot slowly across the high desert skis
As the howls of coyotes sing in the sacrificial night
Their song of survival is a song of life
And rain falls softly on the rocks and into the sand

It’s a song of hope and the freedom to look up
Into the eyes of the holy ghost.
You can feel it on the California coast

So throw your hands into the skis
And dance with the lady of the southern nights
Then take a ride in the January cold with the holy ghost
And pray your wishes make it past this lonely room
Into a dream catcher behind the empty bottles and broken jars
In a road side saloon

It's a song of freedom it’s a song hope
On a drive up the California coast
As she wraps herself around you in the January cold.

Godfather.
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  • rollingsrollings Posts: 7,124
    That's something else,
    seems a little different syle,
    I like it
  • Attaway77Attaway77 Posts: 3,151
    I miss Cali, reading this makes me crank these songs up tonight... Miss those drives.....

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jvjVxe92qc

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hzU7DUjA1M
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  • Godfather.Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    do you guys remember a San Dirgo radio station call KGB ? they used to host/produce a album made up of all local talent and the songs had to be about SD...this was my flash back attempt :mrgreen:
    thank you !

    Godfather.
  • Attaway77Attaway77 Posts: 3,151
    I was a kid when I was living in SOCAL, moved away but would go back and spend summers there. More in the Orange County area though, not SD... But lived out in San Fran for five yrs, took a few drives up and down the coast during my time out there.. I think about those PCH 1 drives... Such beauty.
    1998 Dallas (7/5) 2006 San Fran (7/15,7/16) 2009 San Fran (8/28) 2010 Bristow (5/13) NY (5/21) 2011 Alpine Valley (9/3,9/4)
    2012 Missoula (9/30) 2013 Chicago (7/19) Pittsburgh (10/11) Buffalo (10/12) Baltimore (10/27) Dallas (11/15)
    2014 Austin (10/12) Memphis (10/14) St. Paul (10/19) Milwaukee (10/20) Denver (10/22)
    2016 Ft. Lauderdale (4/8) Miami (4/9) Hampton (4/18) Philly (4/28,4/29) NY (5/1,5/2) 2018 Seattle (8/10) Missoula (8/13) 2022 Nashville (9/16)

    E.V. - 2008 Berkeley (4/8) 2012 Austin (11/9,11/12)
    Temple of the Dog - 2016 Upper Darby



  • Excellent Godfather. Makes me want to road trip to Cali, though I've never been there.
    Pick up my debut novel here on amazon: Jonny Bails Floatin (in paperback) (also available on Kindle for $2.99)
  • Godfather.Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    Excellent Godfather. Makes me want to road trip to Cali, though I've never been there.
    you gotta check it someday bro,california has some beautiful coast line and mountains.
    there is a hwy called old 395 that starts in hysperia and goes to reno nv. and it's one of the best trips I've been on.

    Godfather.
  • Godfather. wrote:
    Excellent Godfather. Makes me want to road trip to Cali, though I've never been there.
    you gotta check it someday bro,california has some beautiful coast line and mountains.
    there is a hwy called old 395 that starts in hysperia and goes to reno nv. and it's one of the best trips I've been on.

    Godfather.

    Cool, I had not heard of Hysperia before.
    Planning our honeymoon this past november we were between Costa Rica and California. I was leaning towards Cali -- planned on driving up from San Diego to the northern most areas with redwoods over 10 days. But Then I heard PJ was playing Costa Rica and that pretty much sealed that deal! :D Next trip is definitely Cali though!
    Pick up my debut novel here on amazon: Jonny Bails Floatin (in paperback) (also available on Kindle for $2.99)
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