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California, My Lover

from Nothing At All by Paul Bergmann

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Out here in California
We drive across the seas
That divide this great city
That strain my lover's squeeze

The cars and waves and freeways
The yellow flash of white
Wine gleaming in the twilit
Sun and orange light

California, my lover
California
California, I love her

And here inside the bar
The easy laughs and sighs
My friends under the moonlight
Our smoke it fills the night

And love is in the ocean
Its heart a twirling mess
Of scrabble rocks and seaweed
A strange and cool caress

California, my lover
California
California, I love her

She's sleeping through the morning
I sit up on the bed
The sky is white completely
The blues are underfed

And up here in Topanga
We drink the steeping tea
I still can feel you smilin'
Looking back at me

California, my lover
California
California, I love her

California, my lover
California
California, I love her

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from Nothing At All, released May 5, 2017

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Paul Bergmann New Haven, Connecticut

In his relentless oeuvre-building, Paul has amassed an especially articulate kind of existentialism: what it means to persist, and to create, in a world which dies in the near distance. In No Masters in Paradise, the form of the songwriter’s ballad, in the hands of an expert, is turned inward for comfort, resisting the base lure of worldly approval. ... more

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