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Leaving California

from Leaving California by Jack O' the Clock

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Leaving California

I want more than I can rightly take.
The form of hunger is awful hard to break.
It's hypnotizing,
watching the almond trees go by.

It's a long, long valley.
I drove through it all day
and passed my likeness
going back the other way.
All my ambitions,
like a carapace, cracked and fell away.

I'm leaving California.
I never meant to get so drunk—
I meant to pass the cup.
And with her sails so full of wind,
I thought for sure I'd live to see
a passage open up.

Almond leaves dusty to the touch.
Sunlight reigns here—
water, not so much.
Pine beetle blight:
copper upon the Western slope,
aching for fire.
Rifles and gas stations,
In-N-Out and Nation’s—
the future's never been a blanker wall,
and I miss my people, even in depravity.
They're not saints but they have a certain gravity.
All of this craving and what is it for?
Switch on some tunes, I ain't talking no more.

I'm leaving California.
I never meant to get so drunk—
I meant to pass the cup.
And with her sails so full of wind,
I thought for sure I'd live to see
a passage open up.

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Damon Waitkus - lead and backing vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, piano, percussion, electric taishogoto
Emily Packard - violin
Jason Hoopes - bass
Jordan Glenn - drums
Thea Kelley - backing vocals
Myles Boisen - pedal steel

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from Leaving California, released May 28, 2021

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Cuneiform Records is a record label releasing adventurous, boundary-bursting music by artists from around the world. They have always championed an eclectic mixture of musical styles and artists and have consistently danced at the dangerous intersection where genres meet. In doing so, they have become one of the most prominent labels of New Music.

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