East L.A. Breeze

A thought occurred to me Lying underneath a peach tree A moment in the sun Our funny little lives are so brief Our frail little bones We're here and then we're gone Sometimes the lonely days Turn into the lonely decades Old ladies on their own The wo

I'm afraid of you You make life seem brand new We stay up late at night Forget the world outside And it's been a long time It's been a long time Since I've seen the morning light It's been a long time It's been a long time And that's alright (2x) You

Winter is fading away Mockingbirds showed up today I smell the sea The East L.A. breeze The freeways are moving so smoothly I looked in a coffeehouse door I couldn't believe what I saw No cigarettes No live instruments Lonely folks typing on laptops

Summer days 15 years old Rodney's on the radio The rtd and a pack of cloves Oh Oh oo Oh oo Oh Oh Oh And girls in death rock pantyhose Junes are cloudy in L. A. All the city's shades of gray The air is warm with ocean spray Oh Oh oo Oh oo Oh Oh Oh And

Star Called Sun Near a star called Sun It was there that my mom came undone Sounds of a summer parade 90.5 in the shade She drifted off on the 4th of July A holiday look in her eyes Said goodbye to a lifetime of pain She died in a mid-summer rain She