Gridlocked from The Hits! by Be Brave Bold Robot

Meanderings on the Rat Race Quandary.
Things you need to know:
- Downtown Sacramento's Urban Core is 3 miles squared.
- "Lovers' Leap" is a cliff face, with a lovely hike up the back of it, just south of Lake Tahoe in the Northern California Sierra Nevada Mountains.



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A subtle rain’s enough to keep the two of us from lover’s leap
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And far away from kayaking in shallow lakes nearby

Where motorboats are not allowed and a family begins to crowd
Toward dryer kitchens in cabins they’ve rented near the shore

Far from bored, we imaginate that we’re experts nearing season 8
On The “Let’s Get Crazy Cabin Crew” HGTV show.

And though we know this can’t last forever, a borrowed shelter in stormy weather
We’ll spend this time we have together, making mountain love

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We leave behind all the things that we’ve made
Hoping to find a more meaningful place
A change in perception, a chaotic wave
To wash us right over while we stand brave
A hole in the fence where the roads are unpaved
And ooze with adventure and lead us to caves
I know that we’ll leave here, we’ve people to save
So if there are gods, let me hold this mindframe

(2nd VERSE)

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A town and country odyssey, a wind star voyaging chevy
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Astro mini superVan, and the family contained within

Know not if there’s a better way to make happiness stay so they
Promise they’ll return from home when chilly rain submits to snow.

So down the mountain, down they go, a CEO from old Frisco
A thousand up, a single horse, astride atop shiny new Porsche

There’s hella dudes, huge trucks with racks,
extreme bro-brahs in fitted caps with bills to backs, forgot exactly what sport team they’re for

I was born to self Navigate, but ancient instincts get replaced
By embraced races safely leading fastest to my cage where there’s

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Three squared Miles, a habitat encasing all the

Things I’ve made and the places where I made them
Three squared miles of easy flat terrain where
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Three square meals fill body and brain


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With just enough to do to numb down the memory
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Of rainfall mountainside, and being there at night

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Hard as I try to keep an inner energy
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steeped in Wild Scents,
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evaporation happens
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unless it’s soaked again.

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Nomadic Tribes may pepper my ancestry,
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But Nurture must win out, cuz I don’t leave the house
but
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What would the caveman do? ( I ask myself)
What would the caveman do?
What would the caveman do?

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