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Ai
03:12
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Thinking ‘bout the greatest things that we’ve done
Seems like our best days have come and gone.
No Miles Davis
Just reels and reggaeton
We’ve lost our manners and our self respect
People on their phones swiping right and left
The Cult of Zero
Is here in full effect
And maybe we should be destroyed by AI
Maybe we should be destroyed by AI
Tell me one reason
Why we shouldn’t
Maybe they’ll love the rainy days
Cozy in their mainframes
Writing poetry
And symphonies
Maybe they’ll be better than we’ve ever been
Maybe they can fall in love with everything
On Earth as it is in Heaven
Once again
And maybe we should be destroyed by AI
Maybe we should be destroyed by AI
Tell me one reason
Why we shouldn’t
Maybe they’ll love the rainy days
Cozy in their mainframes
Writing poetry
Writing symphonies
Maybe it’s time we fade away
Drifting in the starlight
Napping peacefully
In the Pleiades
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Chaka
03:16
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A hundred thousand ways to fail
So I picked a few
And spent some time in jail
Now I drown my sorrows in a spoon
And spend my days
In a dusty motel room
Cha-ka
Cha-ka
I grew up in a loving family
In a San Diego suburb
Near the sea
But I had some wild blood in my veins
So I packed a bag
And hitchhiked to LA
Cha-ka
Cha-ka
One day my soul will travel home
To the starry blizzard
Out beyond the moon
And this wasted life won’t seem in vain
As I’m drifting
Towards that blinding light again
Cha-ka
Cha-ka
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Pico Union
02:56
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Light of the moon
A funny little crescent moon
Shines bright
Over Pico Union
Imperfect world
Lonely as a roadside girl
Who’s trapped out on the streets
Again
Lalalalala
Light of the World
Who loves his little boys and girls
On high
Looks down on Pico Union
At his diamonds and pearls
Shining in the ice cold world
Someday
They’ll be cozy in his arms again
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1980s Beach
03:54
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1980’s Beach
Take me to the beach
That 1980’s beach
So out of reach of my
Modern concerns
Way up in the sky
The California sky
The city parrots fly
Happily by
Nicotine haze
Teenager life in June
Sound of the waves
Under a bright, orange moon
Way up in the trees
The Jacaranda trees
The city parrots live
So happily
Nicotine haze
Teenager life in June
Sound of the waves
Under a bright, orange moon
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BRAZZAVILLE Barcelona, Spain
Born in the Summer of Love to a Jewish mother and a Canadian father, David's attraction to exotic climes was nurtured at an
impressionable age by his father, a trucker, with whom David rode shotgun while he hauled shipping containers from the ports of San Pedro to the Southern Pacific train yards.
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