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The Beautifull Place

from Firelight by nate scoble

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Once upon a time in Santa Cruz.. . .

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The Beautifull Place

standing by the road our lives are for rent, i’m finally connecting with you in the wind. i smell the wish fresh on your skin, i feel your strength coming through your clothes, your hair’s in the sun, your hands in my coat. we’ll stay with friends tonight, tomorrow start a new life in the beautiful place.

i had a friend who grew hard & strange — we called him tough the thinker, god damn before he died to me, the times we spent here. shouting in the sun, aren’t you glad we’ve come -- yes -- blackberries in the broken fence along the road up to the university of kind souls, where the green hills sweep up to the the redwoods, down to the bay, in the beautiful place.

i worked in the city, you had moved on. i tasted the faces in the dark clubs, kissing thirsty for the river inside. wet my lips, but i never could find the beautiful place.

& you give me strength, cuz you know we’ll find our place in the meadow, where the highway cuts through every time. we’ve got no car, as i hold you in black in the golden grass, under the overpass, standing with me, you stick out my thumb & i kiss your shoulders bare, who sees us, you don’t care in the beautiful place.

now the beautiful place is strange to itself: nothing to go back to that doesn’t sit withering on the shelf. & you know the strangeness of things passing by while all that they mean slips & can’t hold inside, cuz the change gene’s been marketed, & the market rules for the people we fight — in the beautiful place.

the hot new thinker they call il prodigy drives his lexus by to make this his colony. from off our backs, he’ll take all we see: tries to look through me, & his windshield breaks. you say fuck that shit as he crashes & burns. i say it’s all right now, we can get past the turns: i can get from this crash in sight to where my heart beats ahead, took me awhile to find my way to where your heart beats ahead. it took me so long but i’m gonna stay now where our hearts beat ahead — where you have always known we can make our home among the living dead

in the beautiful place.

© Nate Scoble 2002

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from Firelight, track released July 15, 2007
Nate Scoble — guitar, voice
Spencer Savage — drums
Michael Gordon — saxophone
Nilsie Shields — bass
Words and music by Nate Scoble
Arranged by Nate Scoble
Engineered by Mark Wheaton at Catasonic Studios, Los Angeles

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nate scoble Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles artist, writer, and musician / Photo by Christen Buchanan.

Early bands:
• The Blue Daisies
• What Makes Donna Twirl
• Future of Hell
• Mouthsore
• Lovegiver

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