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Most songwriters want to capture the human condition by writing lyrics that are universal, speaking to shared experience and common goals. But what if you wrote a song that was SUCH a hyper-specific inside joke that it somehow looped back around to being a prism through which anyone could find meaning? That's the idea here. Everything in this song is a reference to something that happened during a vacation my wife and I took to California last November. Nothing is metaphorical. It all happened. It happened to us, not to you. And yet, I would challenge you to find your own meaning, your own high-end saddle shop visible from a California highway. The California highway of your *mind*.

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Driving past the
Calabasas Saddlery
Passing twenty Teslas in a row
Sea of red lights
Washing out the road in front of me
I’ll take it as a sign that
Maybe I should take it slow

Hiking in the mountains
Singing "Edelweiss" in Spanish
Past the grade the
Temperature is up another ten
Gas ain’t cheap in T’ousand Oaks
Even though we use enough
Seems like maybe someone
Broke the law of supply and demand

A pothole’s just an opportunity
Around here it is always 70
Building sites are
Frozen works of art
If you never need to stop
You never have to start

Rich folks are hiding
Somewhere out here in the hills
Everybody walks a tiny dog
Hummingbirds and crows
Compete for real estate in palm trees
That punctuate the vista
Like an epilogue

It’s implied
This old town’s not for you
Now and Then you know it may be true
Wait for the rain
So you can frolic in the bloom
If you move away from Oxnard
They will give away your room
If you move away from Oxnard
They will give away your room

Gabby docents
Talk about the ships
Sporty wives will
Grimace at your quips
Lazy dogs out sleeping
In the rain
At Calabasas Saddlery
They always know your name
At Calabasas Saddlery
They always know your name
At Calabasas Saddlery
Where everyday’s the same

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from F This Movie! (Only You Could Bring Me Back), released February 21, 2024

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