Long Slow Spring - Sun Kil Moon, Mark Kozelek

Shadowboxed for 30 minutes today

Then I walked to the San Francisco bay

Took a photo of a seagull on the Golden Gate

Came back and shadowboxed another few rounds with 3-pound weights

I got on the phone with my dad

I want to see my dad so so bad

But I can’t see him, I can’t this time

'Cause getting up there and visiting him would be viewed as a heinous crime

During this holding pattern spring time

So yeah, we got, we got on the phone

Talked about what was happening in, in Ohio

His favorite Chinese restaurant was closed

And of the latest news, he grabbed Simone

Long slow spring

I know it’s gonna bring us together soon

(Long slow spring)

Long slow spring

I know it’s gonna bring us together soon

(Long slow spring)

He asked, «When are you touring again?»

I said, «Fuck if I know.»

He said, «Well what are you doing now with your time?»

I said, «I'm recording some music at the studio

Watering my agaves and my aloes

Calling up my friends and saying hello.»

Yesterday we went to Point Rayes

The beach was closed but we stuck in anyway

We went fishing for perch and used prawns as bait

Others were fishing for stripers and manta rays

People were surfing and the sunbathers were lying supine on their beach blankets

Girls in bikinis sporting their Gucci shades

Long slow spring

I know it’s gonna bring us together soon

(Long slow spring)

Long slow spring

I know it’s gonna bring us together soon

(Long slow spring)

In Inverness I took a photo of a shipwrecked boat

Mark it up on my dad a postcard, and I wrote

That I loved him and missed him, and that I hoped

To see him before too long in Ohio

One day I got back and watered my succulents

On the back porch, and I smoked a couple cigarettes

And watched one of my favorite comfort films, About Schmidt

My favorite line, «Life is short, Ndugu, I can’t afford to waste another minute.

That’s how I feel in this life every minute that I’m in it

This morning I hear the morning doves cooing

And I’m lying in bed flipping between De-Daumier-Smith's Blue Period

And looking up at the ceiling’s

When the sun’s coming up that this anxious feeling

Dissipates and I can focus on reading

It’s at this time that my heart’s not beating

As fast as it does in the evening

It’s at this time of the day that I’m calmly breathing

When the sun’s coming up everything feels okay

When the sun’s coming up I know the world has made it to another day

I’m going to meet Caroline in Chinatown

We’re gonna get some dim sum takeout

And go to Washington Square and sit down on a bench

And through the city wander around

Long slow spring

Things will be changing, bringing us closer soon

(Long slow spring)

Long slow spring

Things will be changing, bringing us closer soon

(Long slow spring)

Before we went to sleep last night after watching Saturday Night Live we

listened to some music by Egyptian Guitarist Omar Khorshid

Omar picks single strings with blazing speed that you hear from surfer guitars,

but the music is more exotic

It made me think of being in restaurants in places like Israel and Greece

I fell asleep and dreamed that I was on tour with Ben, Phil and Jim

We were playing what may have been the final show of a tour because our

soundcheck was short

The venue was small with a low ceiling, it may have been Switzerland

And maybe it was the soundcheck and not the actual show because there were only

3 people in the crowd

I remember we were playing very fast and there was so much room out on the floor

That they were using the space dancing from one end of the room to the other

They were dancing very fast, the way that Omar Khorshid plays

We got off stage and my energy was spent from the show

Backstage was a table with a white tablecloth

Ben and I went over there and he asked me, «How are you doing?»