Greetings from Laurel Canyon! Could I write a requiem for you when you’re dead? / “She had the moves, she had the speed, it went to her head” / She never needed anyone to get her round the track / But when she’s on her back / She had the knowledge / To get her […]
Greetings from Laurel Canyon! Fell into a sea of grass / And disappeared among / The shady blades / Children all ran over me / Screaming tag / Hey you are the one He trips her as her sandals fail / She says “Stop I’m a girl / Whose fingernails are made of mother’s pearl” […]
Greetings from Laurel Canyon! Now when the water’s calm and everything is right / Ain’t no catfish gonna make us fight / Hold your sails to the wind and keep your ship in gear / ‘Cause if we sail together we got nothing to fear You threw me your line and now you know I’m […]
Greetings from Laurel Canyon! everyone loves you when you’re gone. / with five leaves left from the day / and no body wants to sing those songs / today it’ll be okay. / everytime your record skips / wish your drunk out of home / pushing and fighting with two fat lips / playing your […]
Greetings from Laurel Canyon! The golden age of rock and roll will never die / As long as the children feel the need to laugh and cry / Don’t wanna wreck, just recreation / Don’t wanna fight but if you turn us down / We’re gonna turn you ’round / Don’t mess with the sound […]
Greetings from Laurel Canyon! A thin moon me in a smoke-screen sky / Where the beams of your love-light chase / Don’t move, don’t speak, don’t feel no pain / With the rain running down my face Your matches still light up the sky / And many a tear lives on in my eye Down […]
Greetings from Laurel Canyon! My my my I’m so happy / We gonna join the band / We are gonna dance and sing in celebration / We’re in the promised land Oh, there is a train that leaves the station / Heading for your destination / But the price you pay to nowhere has increased […]
Greetings from Laurel Canyon! Pack my bags and leave my home / Find me a mama who can hold her own / This whole town is laughing and don’t I know it I don’t know but I can guess / That you’re the only one that I have left / This whole town is laughing […]
Greetings from Laurel Canyon! Back to nature / A trip that I can’t take / People are thinking / That they’ve dreamed of this place / Back to nature / It was somewhere else / Back to nature / Right back on top of yourself Woke up to a beautiful morning in the canyon. In […]
Greetings from Laurel Canyon! If you need someone to talk to tenderly / Or lend a hand and help you on your feet / Don’t you know I live right up the street All you have to do / All you have to do / All you have to do is speak your mind I […]
Greetings from Laurel Canyon! Beautiful people are queuing to drown / They wait for the lifeguard to put on his crown / But he’s up at the other end of town / Trying to talk to the mirror / The scientist talks and he knows what he means / He sits on the floor and […]
Greetings from Laurel Canyon! I call up my friend the good angel / But she’s out with / Her answer-phone / She says she’d love to come help but / The sea would / Electrocute us all / Nice dream / Nice dream / Nice dream / Nice dream Hopefully this new moon is treating […]
Greetings from Laurel Canyon! Jenny said / When she was just about five years old / You know why parents gonna be the death of us all / Two TV sets and two Cadillac cars / Well you know, it ain’t gonna help me at all, not just a tiny bit / Then one fine […]
Greetings from Laurel Canyon! When she said, “Don’t waste your words, they’re just lies, ” I cried she was deaf / And she worked on my face until breaking my eyes, and said, “What else you got left?” / It was then that I got up to leave, but she said, “Don’t forget / Everybody […]
Greetings from Laurel Canyon! After nine days I let the horse run free / ‘Cause the desert had turned to sea / There were plants and birds and rocks and things / There was sand and hills and rings The ocean is a desert with its life underground / And a perfect disguise above / […]
