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Sharktooth Beach

by Sharkstooth Trailheads

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Sharktooth Beach 01:52
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Drive north from Santa Cruz Look for the Bonny Doon Cross over the old train tracks, and Don’t be afraid climbing down the packed sand Our friends will all be there We haven’t seen your face in years We’ll have a party under the moonlight Casting shadows in a cove on a cool night Poison oak couldn’t keep these lads away Noise and smoke on a summer Saturday Sharktooth Beach is waiting for you that-away The party starts when you arrive Sneak off and explore the cave Hear distant crashing waves Before the tide can come and drown us We’ll smoke the weed that I could scrounge up Moon Dog and Sally Field Know exactly how it feels Every minute we spend together Is a minute I will always treasure Poison oak couldn’t keep these lads away Noise and smoke on a summer Saturday Sharktooth Beach is waiting for you that-away The party starts when you arrive
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Giant Dipper at Night 02:46
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Do you wanna come with me On a roller coaster ride above the beach? The sun has set on Santa Cruz We’re drinking Joose See the people on the ground Getting smaller as we’re going up and down Make a wish on a falling star In the coaster car Giant dipper at night Giant dipper at night Moon beaming above us so bright Giant dipper at night When the ride comes to a stop You’ll find yourself walking down That old boardwalk Neon lights reflected on the bay You’ll wanna stay Do you ever wanna cry When you think how time just passes by Do you wish the coaster ran all night That’d be tight Giant dipper at night Giant dipper at night Moon beaming above us so bright Giant dipper at night Giant dipper at night Giant dipper at night Moon beaming above us so bright Giant dipper at night Giant dipper at night Giant dipper at night Moon beaming above us so bright Giant dipper at night Giant dipper at night Giant dipper at night Moon beaming above us so bright Giant dipper at night
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Lincoln City 03:35
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you've been working nights at the Bear Paw Inn and I'm stuck downtown all day we only see each other in the middle of the night I think it's time we got away let's drive out to the coast find a place with a pool order pizza get a bottle of champagne and watch the sunset from our seaside room lincoln city, here we come we'll walk the beach where we fell in love finding things to do we've never done lincoln city, ahí vamos we'll ask the neighbors to check on goosie the cat you'll tell your boss to go to hell we'll check out the tidepools maybe find a hermit crab watch MAD TV in our motel let's drive out to the coast find a place with a pool order pizza get a bottle of champagne and watch the sunset from our seaside room lincoln city, here we come we'll walk the streets where we fell in love finding things to do we've never done lincoln city, ahí vamos when we're back at our apartment on lincoln st. and grand we'll shake our shoes and say "so long" to lincoln city sand lincoln city, here we come we'll walk the beach where we fell in love finding things to do we've never done lincoln city, ahí vamos
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Sam Wo 02:43
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Riding on the train Under San Francisco Bay Hiding from the rain While the night casts out the day Red Bull in my can Feeling like I’m on cocaine I’m a hungry man gotta get some shrimp lo mein On Washington and Grant We met below the sign The place was full of diners So we stood in line There was a time It seems so long ago We would meet in chinatown For dinner at sam wo The city shut it down Said it was full of rats But I see it’s back again I guess they got a cat Riding on the train Trying hard to stay awake Being entertained By thoughts of outer space Martian Chronicles For a pillow as I ride waking up in Berkeley with ET by my side On Adeline and Ashby I was back from where I came And I’d love to go back there But I know it’s not the same
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Bottomless Pit 03:33
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It was the summer solstice Near Manastash Ridge The Mariners were on the TV And Rainier was in the fridge   I heard a sound like thunder I saw a blinding light I got into my old truck And I drove into the night   I drove on fire highways I crossed the talus fields I saw a ship above me And I knew my fate was sealed   I watched them from a distance Throwing trash in the hole Interstellar garbage With an acid gree-een glow   Tons and tons of garbage Dropped in the yawning pit Space detritus falling But I never heard it hit   It was then they saw me They sensed my human soul They hit me with a beam of light And threw me into that bottomless hole   ALIEN LANDFILL THAT’S WHAT THIS EARTH IS ALIEN LANDFILL PRETTY MUCH WORTHLESS I’LL SEE YOU IN THE BOTTOMLESS PIT!
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Coin-Op Dioramas 02:27
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Mr Money Mustache At the Main Mall With the coin op dioramas We snuck into the show They kicked us out Now we’re home in our pajamas Nobody can Nobody can Nobody can Find the clubhouse Nobody can Nobody can Nobody can Leave the drug house We’ve got debts and some unpaid bills Nobody can’t say you’re chill (My) dad met Louis L’Amour in ’66 When he was living at the Strater (I) saw K’reem Abdul-Jabbar eating shaved ice He was wearing Aviators Nobody can Nobody can Nobody can Find the log house Nobody can Nobody can Nobody can Leave the dog house We’ve got debts and some unpaid bills Nobody can’t say you’re chill
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Voices From Another Time 01:48
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Julia lived in a sleeper car Loved a man who was covered in scars He got killed outside a bar So she took her life Now she walks the railroad tracks Looking for her brakeman Max Dressed in white with a voice that cracks She cries out from the past Voices from Another Time Voices from Another Time Voices from Another Time Voices from a ‘nother time! Hank lived alone near Cedar Hill Sold the skins from what he’d kill Left for town to make a deal When he lost his life Snowfall caught Hank by surprise He lost his mule and his supplies Screamed as he fell to his demise You can hear him to this day Voices from Another Time Voices from Another Time Voices from Another Time Voices from a ‘nother time! In Durango On the Railroad In the Desert
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Junior Rat 02:12
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there's a tunnel underneath the street don't go down there unless you want to meet a freak his mother is a rat and his father is batman there's sightings every week his diet is drugs and cigarettes he loves to drive a '69 corvette his tail is slimy, his paws are grimy someone take him to the vet junior rat -- crawlin' in his cave you know the boy's all right junior rat -- lookin' for a rave he's gonna dance through the night there's a tunnel underneath the street if you like him you can toss him down a treat pizza slices and smirnoff ices are his favorite things to eat he's got a fan club big as mickey mouse that doesn't mean i'd let him in my house the rat's on acid, i think he's rabid he's really quite a louse junior rat -- crawlin' in his cave you know the boy's all right junior rat -- lookin' for a rave he's gonna dance through the night let's get rat-ified junior rat -- crawlin' in his cave you know the boy's all right junior rat -- lookin' for a rave he's gonna dance through the night junior rat -- crawlin' in his cave you know the boy's all right junior rat -- lookin' for a rave he's gonna dance through the night he's gonna dance through the night he's gonna dance through the night he's gonna dance through the night he's gonna dance through the night
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Too Far Out 02:51
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the santa anas are blowing i walk down to the bay look out on the horizon and see a surfer floating away ba ba ba he's too far out ba ba ba he's too far out ba ba ba he's too far out he was just too far out on the beach in florida they shot a rocket to space it was supposed to go to the moon but it kept floating away ba ba ba he's too far out ba ba ba he's too far out ba ba ba he's too far out he was just too far out
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The Ballad of Jake 03:02
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Jake was born in New Orleans The son of a gator and a circuit judge Left for dead in a swamp And that would be the end But Jake pulled himself out of the sludge He was raised in a brothel on Bourbon St. And the madam was overjoyed Whenever a guest got out of hand She’d feed him to the gator boy But soon enough of course the cops found out They tried to shake Jake down for a bribe What happened next I won’t repeat He just did what he could to survive So Jake fled West like so many before He was working on the Santa Monica Pier In a sideshow run by a cruel drunk Who’d try to pay the poor gator boy in beer Jake got fed up, stole the bastard’s Bug He drove the PCH up to the Bay Found a steady job selling antique goods And a place to crash in the Lower Haight But rent was as steep as the SF Hills And he walked around in a fog Tough times got tougher And he had to sell his bug To a man from the Russian mob At Golden Gate Park he met the mobster’s daughter Her father had sent her to fetch the Bug She liked his scales and his carefree charm And the two of them fell in love Our lovers made a run, fearing for their lives Jake was back on Highway One Driving north until the money ran out Somewhere near Astoria in Oregon An abandoned houseboat on the Columbia Jake and Nadia made their life But it’s not so easy to keep the profile low Living as a gator and his common-law wife Jake was picking berries on a rural road finally felt a relative sense of freedom never felt the shot that took him by surprise The mobsters sold his body to a local museum Our story might not have a happy ending Let us call it bittersweet if we can Fans flock to Long Beach Washington to glimpse the world famous Gator Man
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Lovers From the Moon 02:52
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11 songs that take place mostly in the Pacific and Mountain time zones

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released March 1, 2024

All songs written by Sharkstooth Trailheads, except Lovers From the Moon written by Stephin Merritt/The Magnetic Fields and Junior Rat written by Sharkstooth Trailheads and Laura West

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