California One Youth And Beauty Brigade

So, I'm downloading music on eMusic - I still have 16 tracks of music I could potentially purchase! And I realised I don't have much from The Decemberists. I listened to 30 seconds of this song and fell in love... I want to share it with you. The lyrics mesmerise me.


Colin Meloy - California One/Youth & Beauty Brigade




Take a long drive with me
On California one, California one
Take a long drive with me
On California one, California one

And the road a-winding goes
From Golden Gate to roaring cliff-side
And the light is softly low as our hearts
Become sweetly untied
Beneath the sun of California one

Take a long dram with me of California wine

And the wine, it tastes so sweet
As we lay our eyes to wander
And the sky, it stretches deep

Will we rest our heads to slumber
Beneath the vines of California wine?
Beneath the sun of California one?

Annabelle lies, sleeps with quiet eyes
On this sea-drift sun
What can you do?
And if I said, "Oh, it's in your head
On this sea-drift sun"
What can you do?

We're calling all bedwetters and ambulance chasers
Poor picker-pockets, bring them in
Come join the Youth and Beauty Brigade

We're lining up the light-loafere'd
And the bored bench warmers
Castaways and cutouts, fill it up
Come join the Youth and Beauty Brigade
Nothing will stand in our way

I figured I had paid my debt to society
By paying my overdue fines
At the Multnoma County Library
At the library they said, "Son, go join up
Go join the Youth and Beauty Brigade"

Nothing will stand in our way




Love lightens the soul... music lifts it up too. This morning I want to tidy up and spend a bit of time reading some more of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader in French. hehe :) I love lazy mornings and time free to just enjoy reading for it's own sake - not just because I need something to keep me occupied while I'm travelling etc. Anyway...


<3

Cathrine