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Scenic Route

by Willi Brown

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1.
Hallway 06:34
I can hear you speak in a voice like mine in the darkness the distance I can hear you speak a very thin line through yourself about me **We lose what we know to know again We can always move, we can always wait It makes no difference We can bury the groove, we can cover fate It makes no difference **We lose what we know to know again I can hear you speak a very thin line in the darkness about me I can hear you speak covering up the things we’ve done tonight together **We lose what we know to know again
2.
Man Enough 04:24
Why do I look Have to, do I have to? Feel the sidewalk dragging me After you, after you *If I was man enough I wouldn’t need you How many kisses, looks and thoughts Passing blur, fantasy Can’t count the love that I’ve wasted now Passing her, passing me *If I was man enough I wouldn’t need you When November speaks in leaves and wind Cold n’ blue, cold n’ blue There’s no where else that I’d rather be Than holdin’ you, holdin’ you *If I was man enough I wouldn’t need you A girl has left her mark on me “Again?” you ask, again you see I was just waiting First you look and then you see
3.
Free Woman 03:15
She walks like the winner of the human race Black is her color but she's got a golden face She's an atheist radical sweet young thing When her clothes come off her body starts to sing * I love a free woman (she don’t have to go my way) And she loves me! Met her on the beach I was bowing to the sea One look in her eyes and a new faith came over me Now I spend my nights howling at the moon Prayin that she's gonna come and see me soon * I love a free woman She don't care about her place in the universe She don't care if this life is a blessing or a curse She just wants to see it all and I know that she will One thing that she can't stand is standing still * I love a free woman
4.
Nothin' Left 03:58
So far and empty, so bad at answers, so uncommitted So smoke to question, smoke to rest A cocaine question on an Acid Test * There’s nothing left, but a piece of me The peace I leave you of belief I’ve been aware and I’ve been unknown Putting on a dead man’s coat I wish I’d seen her, I wish I’d said “I wish I were different, alive, or dead” * There’s nothing left, but a piece of me The peace I leave you of belief So far and empty, so bad at answers So… The rest of you, the rest of me Laughter mixed in misery * There’s nothing left, but a piece of me The peace I leave you of belief There’s nothing left of me
5.
After everything went to hell I packed and I left with precision Then I heard she was living the “good life” So I unloaded my derision I say California deserves you Go on in the water’s wet You can drown in apparent luxury At red tag sales in the sunset * And I’m sad most everyday I sit quietly out of the way And I listen to a tape of the full raging ocean I’m a victim of uncool emotions Well it’s nobodies fault line on judgment day Even eternal traffic is groovy But when the smog monster gets you down on all fours You’re gonna moan, “I’m finally in the movies” But you’ll lower your standards before you even have one Low budget porno in an Orange County warehouse Your teenage skin is crawling again And what the world needs now is a buzz * And I’m sad most everyday... Well the destiny of tourists Is to always go home again Pulled back down those magnetic streets Like your meat and potatos and gravity Well its easy for me to say That a life with a wife and kids would be boring It’s my steady job to sleep alone And look older every morning * And I’m sad most everyday I sit quietly out of the way And I listen to a tape of the full raging ocean I’m a victim of uncool emotions
6.
Today's Man 06:23
Today’s Man watch him walk Flashing black and nameless pre-recorded down the street Today’s Man watch him walk Rich, holy, shameless he’s programmed to repeat *Hey, hurry up do it right, do it all, right now! Hey, watch your money, watch your mouth, watch out! Today's Man! Today’s Man watch him look Only at an object’s face he feels life with his eyes Today’s Man watch him look How he finds his place in life is with the good things that he buys *Hey, hurry up do it right, do it all, right now! Hey, watch your money, watch your mouth, watch out! Today's Man! Today’s Man watch him go Like an intense prayer, like self denial Today’s Man watch him go Six feet under holding tight to his lifestyle *Hey, hurry up do it right, do it all, right now! Hey, watch your money, watch your mouth, watch out! Today's Man!
7.
Adios 04:22
Saw her in the café some habits are hard to break Drinking her 14th cup of coffee trying hard not to look awake She said, “I’ve come into some money, give me a going away kiss” I said, “We’ve spend some time together honey, but I never paid for this. And your farewell party is a party that I won’t make. Adios!” She said, “That’s not what you told me on the morning that we met. You said you’d seen me in a dream that you would not forget.” I said, “Well a first impression isn’t always what it seems and its hard to forget a woman how is drowning me in my dreams. But Adios, have a good trip, and won’t you remember me!” She said, “you’re being insincere”. I said, “I’m really not trying to be! It really makes no difference if you believe in me.” She said, “you’re wasting my time”. I said, “You’re a waste of flesh and blood Your emotions are just moods and your brain is full of mud. Adios, have a good trip, and won’t you remember me!”
8.
I locked all the doors and I stayed up for days I couldn’t make up my mind to save my life and its too late to save my face * Figure it out it’s only confusion Analyze it to death but don’t do a thing Don’t want to be disillusioned “Action always” give me a break, all the doors have long been broken I’m seeing things that can’t be seen and hearing things that can’t be spoken * Figure it out... Collected the evidence and now I’m just staring at my shoes Too many facts not a shred of emotion and too much of nothing to lose * Figure it out...
9.
Unreal City 05:29
Unreal City Shades of gray Unreal City Neither night or day Unreal Instincts get blown away you cannot leave and you cannot stay * Your mother won't feed you and your father won't let you beg And the Coca-Cola© System is dripping down your leg! In Un Real City Unreal City Twisting out of view Still shakin' through at a theater near you! Like it or not... It belongs to you! * Your mother won't feed you and your father won't let you beg And the Coca-Cola© System is dripping down your leg! In Un Real City Unreal City The land awaits mmm mmm Good! Better! clean your plate Unreal City in an Altered State I'm a speechless creature on a blind date! * Your mother won't feed you and your father won't let you beg And the Coca-Cola© System is dripping down your leg! In Un Real City
10.
Matchmaker 04:47
Matchmaker struck out on me when I asked her for a light I guess we've both been burned one too many times tonight She's asking 20 dollar questions as she offers me a penny When I tell her that I just stopped counting it really means I don't know how many * How many lovers in this march of dimes Collecting pennies for my thoughts How many times? Matchmaker? How many times? It's like a broken record as long as my arm like a needle going up and down “I never meant to do you any harm” and it stays on my turntable because the intro never skips But the tables turn down at the verse and I never refrain from her lips * How many lovers in this march of dimes Maybe I should shave my head and not be such a dude Grab a robe and sandals play monkeyshines with solitude Then no more $20 dollar questions will bother my bald head and I won't stumble on the truth as I trip from another bed * How many lovers in this march of dimes
11.
Manifesto 04:56
This street is lined with nothing but the dirt of dead routines Corporate image torn uniform neverending office scenes The empty mailbox of hungry hope for the homeless and the poor Waits forever a curbside like a junkie waits to score * And that is / that is not what I / really meant to say The sunlight I remember from the summer trees of then Will not put me back to sleep or wake me up again As I fall away to windows from the business here at hand I can see a state of mind that we call the promise land * And that is / that is not what I / really meant to say I’m an animal for sleeping while my country is at war My number has been called up but all I do is snore As the tv is my witness my head falls from disgrace But no one gets an explanation when they try to read my face * And that is / that is not what I / really meant to say
12.
I can hear you speak in a voice like mine in the darkness the distance I can hear you speak a very thin line through yourself about me **We lose what we know to know again We can always move, we can always wait It makes no difference We can bury the groove, we can cover fate It makes no difference **We lose what we know to know again I can hear you speak a very thin line in the darkness about me I can hear you speak covering up the things we’ve done tonight together **We lose what we know to know again

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Recorded in the early 00's in a Venice Beach studio. The vision became focused one night under the influence of ecstasy as I worked on the track "Hallway". The rest of the songs got worked out over the course of the summer in between surfing and being unemployed.

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released March 3, 2003

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Willi Brown Austin, Texas

Gum boot dancer from way back the poems don't matter nor does the swamp full of alligators. I wrote on the guitar til it wouldn't write back no more.

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