Name: California's Melting
Duration: P00H03M23S
Description: I was rocking my baby boy to sleep with my consciousness melting away in the heat of a smokey San Francisco evening where we were surrounded by fires. In the exhaust of the moment, I just exhaled by singing this song to him. It was recorded a few days later.

California's Melting

from Critique of Nature by Luke Sweeney

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I was rocking my baby boy to sleep with my consciousness melting away in the heat of a smokey San Francisco evening where we were surrounded by fires. In the exhaust of the moment, I just exhaled by singing this song to him. It was recorded a few days later.

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California’s melting, baby ain’t it sad?
Tried to warn us if we can’t change a little
It’ll get bad
Flash a look at any county
A matchbook strikes our bounty
Every summer, spring and fall
Instead of viewing the fact,
You wanna bbq and distract
Your self from your part in it all
But honey, I’m sure you did all that you

California’s melting, baby ain’t it sad?
Now it’s going up in blazes, it’s getting bad
Don’t wanna talk about it,
The earth is getting crowded
That’s the crime now we’re doing the time

It’s over four million acres
There’s no place that’s sacred
This fire will put your head in the sand
It’s the american way to simply reason away
‘til there’s nowhere left to stand
But honey, oh I’m sure, you did all that you can

California’s melting, baby ain’t it sad?
Mother earth tried & tried to warn us
But we’re acting like a drunken dad
California’s melting, baby ain’t it sad?
California’s melting, baby!
(baby ain’t it sad?)

California’s melting, baby don’t you give a damn?
Oh wait, I see your instagram…
(baby ain’t it sad?)

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from Critique of Nature, released April 3, 2021
recorded at The Idiot Room in San Francisco, CA
all instrumentation by Luke Sweeney

Engineered by Roberto Pagano & Joe Santarpia
Produced by Roberto Pagano

Mastered by John Greenham

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Luke Sweeney San Francisco, California

A bicycle crash left a young Sweeney with his jaw wired shut for six weeks, and in recovering, his sustenance was on a guitar. What was he chasing?

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