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Alta California

by The Soft White Sixties

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1.
Teen Wolves 03:42
We are starting new revolution The time has come for a resolution This is a consciousness evolution Bringing an end to The Grand Illusion The sky isn’t falling The sky isn’t falling We’ve lost our faith in the institution They’ve fallen under a dark corruption They use a rhetoric of fear and confusion We need to open the doors of perception The sky isn’t falling The sky isn’t falling
2.
Lights are glowing brighter and the music’s getting low Everyone is prodded Just like cattle through the door Summoning a taxi No one’s driving that’s for sure Some are off to slumber While others pine for more I want more Let’s get down, underneath The Overpass After hours, where the party was meant to last Dancing while we watch the sun come up Taking all the drugs, drinking all the wine Crossing over every line Lets get weird, lets get high Lift this place right up off the ground I’m not tired, I’m gonna be The last man standing Eccentrics are assembled here From all across the city but you are all I notice here and everyone is pretty you started up a fire that can melt the ice in me if I don’t take you home tonight girl that would be a pity Let’s get down, underneath the overpass After hours, where the party was meant to last Dancing while we watch the sun come up taking all the drugs, drinking all the wine crossing over every line Lets get weird, lets get high Lift this place right up off the ground I’m not tired, I’m gonna be The last man standing
3.
I can’t forget The intoxicating scent Of Eucalyptus leaves Wafting in the breeze I can’t forget The raising of the rent trading out Sabella’s For an Applebee’s Now for a while You’ve lost your style Where did it go You don’t believe I'm gonna leave I'm out the door I still recall Romona finally booked us At the Bottom of the Hill On a Monday night Jazz cigarettes And powdering our noses In the back seat of the van Before we loaded in Now for a while You’ve lost your style Where did it go You don’t believe I'm gonna leave I'm out the door I still love you, San Francisco I still love you, San Francisco Though now I am an Angeleno I still love you Jack Kerouac Drinking Fernet With all the other hispsters At Visuvio Now in the Haight Try to find an artist Who doesn’t get their funding From rich relatives Now for a while You’ve lost your style Where did it go You don’t believe I'm gonna leave I'm out the door I still love you, San Francisco I still love you, San Francisco Though now I am an Angeleno I still love you
4.
Chicano kid from Alta California I'm a native son Abuelito and his one true love they made a fortunate run they’re chasing freedom and prosperity the same as anyone and all they wanted was a better life salvation If you build a wall We’re gonna tear it down Brick by brick I pledge allegiance to the stripes and stars But there’s no loyalty to me And all the people that believe the lie This is the land of the free tell me why, would I strive for this broken dream pledge my devotion to this fallacy If you build a wall We’re gonna tear it down Brick by brick If you build a wall We’re gonna tear it down Watch it fall If you build a wall We’re gonna tear it down Brick by brick If you build a wall We’re gonna tear it down watch it fall If you build a wall We’re gonna tear it down after all
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You are a girl with and abundance of soul That’s why I never want to let you go cause if I did that’d make me stupid as fuck And I am obviously spangled with luck I put my lips upon your cinnamon skin They took me right out of the funk I was in your eyes are like an all consuming fire burning as hot as my molten desire there’s no one like you baby no one in the world every time I see you I can’t believe you’re my girl My one and only girl there’s no one like you baby no one in the world every time I see you I can’t believe you’re my girl My one and only girl When I wake up and you’re lying beside it’s like the energy when planets collide and when I say that I just mean it’s a lot it goes without saying, that I think that you’re hot you know I like it when you’re all dressed up it makes me pray to god we never break up im working hard to be a better man then it won’t seem so audacious when I ask for your hand there’s no one like you baby no one in the world every time I see you I can’t believe you’re my girl My one and only girl there’s no one like you baby no one in the world every time I see you I can’t believe you’re my girl My one and only girl
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Number One 02:46
How about we start this over Take the numbers down off the board There’s no other way to get this right until you and I settle the score Come on over here and look in me in eye See the tears welling up inside Me and you are really exactly the same looking at each other to blame for everything you and I have lost our way, looking out for number one let’s resolve and move along say it together we both were wrong we came here from the same block bought our lemonheads from the same damn shop got ourselves a habit out back behind the school smoking all your grandma’s Kools Somehow we got twisted The truth came by, and we missed it Face to face, eye to eye, both of us falling on the same damn knife Why do we do this to each other? Why can’t we love each other? You and I have lost our way Looking out for Number one Lets resolve and move along Say it together
8.
Reaganomixxx 03:59
you were saying all you need is love but what does that even mean left at home with the TV on, dinner’s in the microwave oven a steady diet of Ritalin crack cocaine in a pill selling bombs to the enemy your karma’s trickling down your reign is over now your reign is over now you gave us game show politicians Who’ve cremated their cares All I wanted was an education Now im forever in debt A change is coming like a thief in the night While you’re asleep at the wheel If I could I’d make it happen tonight I’ve had enough of your world your reign is over now your reign is over now
9.
dry your eyes and calm your fears everything is not as dire as it may appear I still have you, and you have me We can change the world and leave our legacy It’s just you and me baby until the world stops spinning we’re clutching hands through the crazy until the stars start to fall and sun doesn’t shine at all I can’t tell you there’s nothing wrong And I'm not claiming to be a soothsayer of song You are all that matters to me Even if this all ends up in tragedy It’s just you and me baby until the world stops spinning we’re clutching hands through the crazy until the stars start to fall and sun doesn’t shine at all

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released August 10, 2018

Produced by Elijah Thomson
Executive produced by Neil Dana
Recorded at New Monkey Studio in Van Nuys, CA and La Casina in Fullerton, CA
Mixed and engineered by Elijah Thomson at New Monkey Studio
Additional engineering by Greg Cortez, Aishwarya Govekar, Aaron Eisenberg and Rob Fidel
Mastered by TW Walsh
Manufactured by Pirates Press in San Francisco, CA
Art Direction by Andrew Braswell
Photography by Aaron Smith
Styling by Kerri Dumin
All songs written by The Soft White Sixties and Elijah Thomson Published by Filament Group (ASCAP)

The Soft White Sixties are
Octavio Genera – lead vocals, acoustic guitar
Joey Bustos – drums
Ryan Noble – bass, backing vocals
Aaron Eisenberg – Electric guitar, acoustic guitar, piano, Rhodes, Moog, backing vocals, tape loops
Rob Fidel – Synthesizers, Wurlitzer, organ, Moog, electric guitar, backing vocals

Additional instrumentation
Elijah Thomson – synthesizers, electric guitar, bass, percussion, and backing vocals Frank Lenz – percussion

The Soft White Sixties would like to thank Phil Sharp, Antonio Cruz, Joel Graves, Robert Cappadona, Maggie Lenz, Beef Vegan, Megan Holiday, Anneliese Salgado, Kiersten Stevens, Michael Schultz at Fender, Amilcar Dohrn-Melendez, Naomi Con and Keena Batti at Guild, Aaron Tackett and Robert Keeley at Keeley Electronics, JJ Mellon, Mike Locke, and Heather Boyd at INgrooves.

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