Lyrics

I'm cutting class today I can't stand the insults or the masquerade 180 east up to the trees I've got my pen and my Parliaments Anything to drown out the dissonance The hush of mountain air is what I need Through the valley of pesticide and haze Where the palms choke and the cattle they graze Down there they're all swarming But I'll just keep ignoring The surge of selfishness and sin Out there beyond the peaks It's all so fucking bleak Alone is the only place I fit in On thе edge of Redwood Ovеrlook I press my pleas into an empty book A hawk replies suspended over cliffs I write for the eyes of empathy For wild love and tranquility The wind pulls my words to the abyss Beneath a blanket of branches and sky Where the creeks speak and the ache it subsides Down there they're all swarming But I'll just keep ignoring The surge of selfishness and sin Out there beyond the peaks It's all so fucking bleak Alone is the only place I fit in When the sun sinks towards the sea It will drag me unwillingly Back to the city of dust and drones Where the crickets of Tulare Street Lament in the summer heat I'll be back before dad gets home