| Shadowboxed for 30 minutes today
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| Then I walked to the San Francisco bay
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| Took a photo of a seagull on the Golden Gate
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| Came back and shadowboxed another few rounds with 3-pound weights
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| I got on the phone with my dad
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| I want to see my dad so so bad
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| But I can’t see him, I can’t this time
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| 'Cause getting up there and visiting him would be viewed as a heinous crime
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| During this holding pattern spring time
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| So yeah, we got, we got on the phone
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| Talked about what was happening in, in Ohio
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| His favorite Chinese restaurant was closed
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| And of the latest news, he grabbed Simone
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| Long slow spring
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| I know it’s gonna bring us together soon
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| (Long slow spring)
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| Long slow spring
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| I know it’s gonna bring us together soon
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| (Long slow spring)
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| He asked, «When are you touring again?»
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| I said, «Fuck if I know.»
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| He said, «Well what are you doing now with your time?»
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| I said, «I'm recording some music at the studio
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| Watering my agaves and my aloes
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| Calling up my friends and saying hello.»
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| Yesterday we went to Point Rayes
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| The beach was closed but we stuck in anyway
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| We went fishing for perch and used prawns as bait
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| Others were fishing for stripers and manta rays
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| People were surfing and the sunbathers were lying supine on their beach blankets
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| Girls in bikinis sporting their Gucci shades
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| Long slow spring
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| I know it’s gonna bring us together soon
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| (Long slow spring)
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| Long slow spring
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| I know it’s gonna bring us together soon
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| (Long slow spring)
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| In Inverness I took a photo of a shipwrecked boat
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| Mark it up on my dad a postcard, and I wrote
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| That I loved him and missed him, and that I hoped
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| To see him before too long in Ohio
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| One day I got back and watered my succulents
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| On the back porch, and I smoked a couple cigarettes
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| And watched one of my favorite comfort films, About Schmidt
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| My favorite line, «Life is short, Ndugu, I can’t afford to waste another minute.
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| That’s how I feel in this life every minute that I’m in it
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| This morning I hear the morning doves cooing
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| And I’m lying in bed flipping between De-Daumier-Smith's Blue Period
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| And looking up at the ceiling’s
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| When the sun’s coming up that this anxious feeling
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| Dissipates and I can focus on reading
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| It’s at this time that my heart’s not beating
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| As fast as it does in the evening
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| It’s at this time of the day that I’m calmly breathing
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| When the sun’s coming up everything feels okay
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| When the sun’s coming up I know the world has made it to another day
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| I’m going to meet Caroline in Chinatown
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| We’re gonna get some dim sum takeout
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| And go to Washington Square and sit down on a bench
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| And through the city wander around
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| Long slow spring
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| Things will be changing, bringing us closer soon
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| (Long slow spring)
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| Long slow spring
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| Things will be changing, bringing us closer soon
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| (Long slow spring)
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| Before we went to sleep last night after watching Saturday Night Live we
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| listened to some music by Egyptian Guitarist Omar Khorshid
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| Omar picks single strings with blazing speed that you hear from surfer guitars,
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| but the music is more exotic
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| It made me think of being in restaurants in places like Israel and Greece
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| I fell asleep and dreamed that I was on tour with Ben, Phil and Jim
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| We were playing what may have been the final show of a tour because our
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| soundcheck was short
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| The venue was small with a low ceiling, it may have been Switzerland
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| And maybe it was the soundcheck and not the actual show because there were only
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| 3 people in the crowd
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| I remember we were playing very fast and there was so much room out on the floor
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| That they were using the space dancing from one end of the room to the other
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| They were dancing very fast, the way that Omar Khorshid plays
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| We got off stage and my energy was spent from the show
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| Backstage was a table with a white tablecloth
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| Ben and I went over there and he asked me, «How are you doing?» |