I used to walk in the shade…  (Taken with Instagram at San Francisco)

I used to walk in the shade… (Taken with Instagram at San Francisco)

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– Nothing's Shocking Anymore (15 plays)

Nothing’s Shocking Anymore

Dinah has such a twang (Taken with Instagram at Rooky Ricardo’s)

Dinah has such a twang (Taken with Instagram at Rooky Ricardo’s)

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– You Can't Do It Alone (live), That's The California Dream (live) (21 plays)

Live on a foggy night in San Francisco.

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Eric V and I rehearse a Black Keys number from their 2010 release, Brothers.

Songs, songs and more songs (Taken with Instagram at San Francisco)

Songs, songs and more songs (Taken with Instagram at San Francisco)

"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives."

Albert Einstein (via apoplecticskeptic)

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I don’t have to tell you what this little burners about

I’M STILL HOOKED
Derrek Wayne, July 2009
Jazz Ballad

You’re so cute when you cross your arms that way.
You revile how you feel about your stay.
And although some time has passed, you still read like a book
lady, I confess, I’m still hooked.

I’ve meet all kinds of girls, but I’m still lonely.
How I need someone who really knows me.
Do I see in your eyes, that old familiar look?
Lady I confess, I’m still hooked.

Let’s get out of this town we can walk hand in hand to the sea
Let’s run wild through it all, or am I in my own fantasy?

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This one came out of a conversation with one of my first music teachers

THAT’S THE CALIFORNIA DREAM
Derrek Wayne, August 2009 
Jazz Ballad

Down that old road to Tinseltown,
to chance my life away on a showbiz goround,
and waste all my education on my heart’s imagination
and to learn the things I never learned in school.

HEARTACHE AND MISERY
BRIGHT LIGHTS AND FANTASY
WHAT A FANTASTIC TERRIBLE SCENE
THAT’S THE CALIFORNIA DREAM

Saved up for years to get their piece of pie
only to lost it in the blink of an eye.
But the blame is untraceable,
and their lives are erasable
from the ledgers of the macroscopic view.

CHORUS

Would you give up your luxury
only to save your naivety?
You cant see the distant mountain
that fills up Mulholland’s fountain
well I guess we know each other pretty well.

CHORUS

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