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The Ride

forty beers at the peoples republic + nobody in there's Chinese
guys r so ripped they piss from a distance on yellow blistering knees
a phoney soprano a bearded buffoon orders another cheap round
harvard queens r arguing cross-eyed intellectual cocks on the prowl

i don't know if this
is where i ought to laugh
i don't like the reflection
an oncoming car up my ass

skywalker car a ashtray of butt wheels like a velveteen surf
radio's off yr cel phone is on Virginia Woolfe on yr face like a smirk
leave the city behind a discarded can on the slope of a tinfoil sky
ahead on the road is a rich people's park - Nahant with a Mafia vibe

oh i don't know if this
is where i ought to stop
i don't like yr reaction
hey is that a cop?

every few minutes the beer takes over + we pull off t spit
atlantic ocean a breakwater jam with waves like a communist fist
it's dark out here on a finger of land with a house like a chapter + verse
crown on the grass like the buzz of a punk dazed + beautifully hurt

suns on the rise tomorrow is work for the sad takin' showers on speed
hope against hope for a cry or a twist or a skirt or a spray or a scream
we've run outa words + wr peacefully sexy in the stench of this long ride
whaddya call it? a Kerouac night on a quest like a headbanger's high

i don't know if this
is where i ought to say
goodnight my friend am i
or are you betrayed?

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from ME & VAN GOGH, track released April 19, 2004
Produced by Rick Berlin, Billy Conway + Tom Dube
Engineered + mixed by Tom Dube
Recorded at HI-N-Dry

Mastered at JPMasters by Dave Locke
Photos: Rick
Design: Shaun Wolf Wortis

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Rick Berlin (now playing w/ THE NICKEL & DIME BAND) Jamaica Plain

A giant on the Boston music scene. His colorful songwriting + strong stage presence have influenced countless other artists since the early 1970s. He continues to make music w/ intelligence + integrity, building an international reputation around his knotty, singular piano playing, straight-from-the-heart singing and a style of character-based songwriting that's drawn comparisons to Waits + Cohen ... more

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