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mark kozelek with petra haden - nice people all around lyrics

i woke up today but you didn’t mention what i was mumbling about when i was tossing and turning in my sleep
the tylenol pm and melatonin c+cktail can sometimes cause me to have trippy dreams
i dreamed of a woman that said that she broke up with people for the fun of it
and had a long list of things that said to me
“warning, the emotional intelligence of this person is that of someone probably 13”
and i dreamed that you and i were jumping from rock to rock looking for a rock to camp on out at sea
we found a large rock in the ocean with blankets on it
and we started making our bed and i woke up from the dream
the dream of us surrounded by cold crashing white water waves when we’re losing daylight
the dream of you and i being swept away out to sea
my heart was pounding and i woke up next to you so frightened

yesterday was a good day, i decided to get out of bed and run my errands in the rain
i boxed for 30 minutes at the gym and i’m going back there again today
i wrote a short story about my grandfather to give to my father for his 85th birthday
today i put 45 minutes into the gym and i opened chapter 5 of mike tyson’s book, “iron ambition”
about his life and times with cus d’amato
i gotta admit my emotional and mental strength has been a little off this winter
and this book has many words and sentences and paragraphs of wisdom
this book has many philosophies and recommendations of daily affirmations in it
like: “day by day, in every way, i’m getting better”

mike was reading friedrich nietzche when he was only 15, and so was john fante
i figured if he was good enough for those guys, then he’s good enough for me
and i’m reading nietzche’s “thus spoke zarathustra” for the first time ever
man versus superman
and i must confess i watched jimmy swaggart sing late into the night
i could’ve listened to him sing gospels until i see the morning light peeking through my blinds
for his singing fills my heart with joy
jimmy swaggart’s singing fills my heart with so much joy

and i must confess i read joel o’steen too, though some may call him a phony
but i believe he’s all about good energy and spreading positivity
i’d like to get closer and closer to that place, though i’ll never get there completely

it was a new morning yesterday and we drove home from chico
through the apple orchards and the vineyards through west sacramento
and past the signs for vallejo
we spent the night up there in an airbnb, it was the first time ever for me in an airbnb
xylouris white was nice enough to put us up there for free
i found chico to be a nice town
it was a nice crowd of duffys and in general, nice people all around

and the last song they played, “hey, musicians”, put me in a spell
and chris and i stayed up all night talking and talking
i was in the upstairs room and he was in the downstairs room
he said, “goodnight mary ellen,” and i said, “goodnight jim bob” like they did in the waltons
now i’m back home in bed taking a nap
under my old green quilt that i got in an auction during an ohio trip
it was a beautiful drive into san francisco earlier today
it was a beautiful drive into san francisco
and i got to see xylouris white play tonight too you know?
it was a nice mix of their own songs plus some traditional greek music
and after the show i met a woman born on the exact same day and year as me
her name was elizabeth
i met a lot of nice people after the show
then we got into my girlfriend’s car and we drove home
and that last song of theirs put me in a spell yet again
and it’s 2:30am
and i fell asleep reading a book about cus d’amato
about how he dealt with the mob and his fallout with rocky graziano

- mark kozelek with petra haden lyrics

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