Not Cool Like NY / Not Cool Like LA (Geoffrey O'Connor Remix)

Baby, lately

My sister through the ether sends me

Picture of a hillside where my soul still nightly roams

Sends me pictures of a river in whose bed I used to pan for gold

I'm so far away

It feels strange being

Still that frowning child searching for meaning inside other people's words

I'm still a whirlwind who feels blessed and then feels cursed by turns

Under the watchful eye of god

I did what I was told

Kept panning for meaning and gold

Now they make me wanna be a person I was never meant to be

Make me hate the way I am and then ask me again, I’m sure to disagree

But baby I'm better now

'Cause I understand it's me it's what I was it's never you

It's why the other stays intact and why I'm always cloven cleanly into two

But baby I'm better now

Not giving away the gold that I found

Spat straight from the soul of the ground

She's beautiful, I just wanna be me

Sarah Chadwick from Taumarunui

Married Simon John born on Lyons place

He grew up in Doncaster East

It's not cool like NY, or cool like LA

But everyone knows that it's better that way

Its so much more special and our daddies aren’t famous

So everything I did I can say its who I was

I’m more economic I hurt more exactly

your hurt's like a sponge it just shrugs nebulously

i don’t miss rock 'n' roll I am missing today

he says you’re my home, I say you’re my home baby

well she's so attractive and she’s so from LA

Well I fell from heaven and back I'll go one day

Lord I'm coming, I said I was

Don’t forget you promised me

you'd be there 'cause

I've got small wins to toast

And you said you'd host

If they're not there I'll be cross

well, I gave my favourite teacher an ashtray / he didn’t smoke but I needed a daddy