Take the Long Way

Let's take the long way

'Cause I like the view

Go by the shoreline

Look at the moon

Take the long way

Watch the sunrise

Listen to the radio

All through the night

The rain can't dampen us

Drive on through

Until the sun shines on us

Dries up the dew

Take the long way

'Cause I like the view

Go by the shoreline

Look at the moon

Savor the silence

And stroke my back

Sing to me softly of secrets

And the stories lost between the cracks

This moment is stardust

It has already passed

But you are so bright, so bright in my mind

And our, our moonlit mass

Let's take the long way

'Cause I like the view

Go by the shoreline

Look at the moon

Take the long way

Watch the sunrise

Listen to the radio

All through the night

Lookin' for love in all the wrong places, I guess I got one of those faces down and out of the window pane, leaving the Carnegie down on Hastings and Main, I step out into another BC blizzard, into a Yellow Cab lizard, the driver's an old wise Somalian wizard, I'm just a young MC potty-mouth, I tell him to take the back roads headed south, from the meadow to the ghetto come equipped to the red-light district, after performance I did for nickels and cents, he says "CR you're crazy", I said "It doesn't faze me, my love's not lazy, I'm here to amaze thee, heck you amazed at this bitch, I got a brew like Miles Davis", I walked away with that floatin' around his head, two girls smiling at what I just said, at M Low's after shows you want a hit of this joint he says okay alright brother just leave it in the ashtray, commercial success, sex drive, I lick the honey in the hive, and I can tribal feel this love vibe as I look into another country's tribe, I brush my teeth like Kool Keith, I paint in water colors like Georgia O'Keefe my graffiti's flex kill and that's keepin' it brief, those who got will get even more, if you don't waste you gift you'll get another four, be a spirit not a ghost on the west coast, listen to Patti Smith and as the clouds shift, sun down, Big Sur, the view is killer by the old homestead of Henry Miller, don't worry 'bout your final destination you'll get there soon, stare at the stars, they're the children of the sun and the moon

Let's take the long way

'Cause I like the view

Go by the shoreline

Look at the moon

Take the long way

Watch the sunrise

Listen to the radio

All through the night

The rain can't dampen us

Drive on through

Until the sun shines on us

Dries up the dew

Take the long way

'Cause I like the view

Go by the shoreline

Look at the moon