Lyrics

Released August 16, 2023
Dedicated to Erin Barcellos McKinley
With thanks to the Brown Family
lyrics
I’m not ready to write a song about you
So I’ll write about your bench
On Robert Dollar Hiking Trail
How I wound the roads of San Rafael
Without water and forgetting

The California heat when the fog is still at bay
I’ll write about the dust kicking clouds around my face

And the manzanita trees
Grown scrubby in the drought
How I whispered to the radio tower,
I’ll trade my breath for an easy way out

And the California heat pushed its weight on me
Then the bench came into view
And a fox did too

He hopped the path in front of me
Hid behind the cottonwood trees
So I started making plans for fending off
An attack that never came
An opportunity for rage

The California heat when the fog is still at bay
I wish you weren’t dead but it is that way
But I didn’t feel you
It was just a bench with a beautiful view