Greetings from Laurel Canyon! Daddy’s telling lies / Baby’s eating flies / Mommy’s on pills / Baby’s got the chills I’m friends with the President / I’m friends with the Pope / We’re all making a fortune / Selling Daddy’s dope Sitting here in Queens / Eating re-fried beans / We’re in all the magazines […]
Greetings from Laurel Canyon! I’m the stone you’ve just thrown into the ocean / How many stones have you thrown? / Turin brown, I’m going down for the very first time / Now where’s the truth in this? / I dared to dream / But you were more violent than the worst hurricane Oh take […]
Greetings from Laurel Canyon! Ooh, stop / With your feet on the air and your head on the ground / Try this trick and spin it, yeah (yeah) / Your head will collapse, and there’s nothing in it / And you’ll ask yourself Where is my mind? / Where is my mind? / Where is […]
Greetings from Laurel Canyon! So you are tired of us / So rest your head / Turning back fourteen years / Of what I did and said So you are breathing disaster / I did what I was told / But I was a man born invisible / Was it something I said or some […]
Greetings from Laurel Canyon! Once upon a time, not too long ago, we took a day out in Manchester / We all fall down, there’s not enough hours in the day / Played a bit of football, fell into the union / Barged our way into the toilet with the kung fu king There’s not […]
Greetings from Laurel Canyon! It’s rare when I lack inspiration to go digging through record crates to find Idelic Hour inspiration—AKA: a playlist. This week’s source came from a Facebook post. My old Boston punk rock pal Johnny Angel reached out with the question: What are your three favorite “cut out” albums? My god, I […]
Greetings from Laurel Canyon! And your parents paid you through / You got a nice big car, nothing bothers you / Somebody cut out your eyes, you refuse to see / Ah, somebody cut out your heart, you refuse to feel / And you live in a shell / You create your own hell / […]
Greetings from Laurel Canyon! Hot stuff, can’t get enough / Hot stuff, play it rough, yeah / I gave you love / Because music is want I want / To keep my body always moving / Yeah, shake it up, hot stuff / Every day, I get another dose / I can’t stand it when […]
Greetings from Laurel Canyon! Well they’re sure keen on dancin’ / Those Hollywood kids / Those Hollywood kids got it made / When they act, big doors open / Those Hollywood kids / Those Hollywood kids got it made / So let’s party, Dustin Hoffman / Those Hollywood kids / Those Hollywood kids got it […]
Greetings from Laurel Canyon! Let me tell you / The truth is in the eyes ’cause the eyes don’t lie, amen / Remember, a smile is just a frown turned upside down my friend / So, hear me when I’m saying / Smiling faces, smiling faces, sometimes, yeah / They don’t tell the truth / […]
Greetings from Laurel Canyon! I told you when I met you / I was crazy / Cry for us all, Beauty / Cry for Eddie in the corner / Thinking he’s nobody / And Jack behind his joker / And stone-cold Grace behind her fan / And me in my frightened silence / Thinking I […]
Greetings from Laurel Canyon! Inside every man / Lives the seed of a flower / If he looks within he finds beauty and power / Ring all the bells, sing and tell the people everywhere that the flower has come / Light up the sky with your prayers of gladness and rejoice for the darkness […]
Greetings from Laurel Canyon! And if the way I hold you, can’t compare to his caress / No words of consolation will make me miss you less / My darling, if this is goodbye, I just know I’m gonna cry / So run to him before you start crying, too And make it easy on […]
Greetings from Laurel Canyon! For your pleasure / In our present state / Part false part true / Like anything We present ourselves / The words we use tumble / All over your shoulder / Gravel hard and loose / There all night lying / With your dark horse hiding / Abhorring such extremes / […]
Greetings from Laurel Canyon! Never said I was a stool pigeon / I never said I was a diplomat / Everybody is under suspicion / But you don’t want to hear about that ‘Cause you tease, and you flirt / And you shine all the buttons on your green shirt / You can please yourself […]
