Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Brian Wilson
Canonical path: /brian-wilson/venice-beach
Related lyric paths: 6
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Venice Beach
Read Venice Beach lyrics by Brian Wilson on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Venice Beach
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Venice Beach is poppin'
Like live shrimp dropped on a hot wok
Hucksters, hustlers and hawkers
Set up their boardwalk shops
Home for all the homeless, hopeless, well heeled, and deranged
Still, nothing here seems out of place or strange.
There's an old smudge of a Beatnik by the bay
Lookin' like a dog who's had his day
Like a dream, he drifts away
He'd like to go out on the Pier to hear the reedy carousel
It's got a melody that sets you free, and says
Let's sit a spell, just to hear the heartbeat in L.A.
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Brian Wilson performs "Venice Beach", and this lyric page sits inside the Brian Wilson catalog on LyroVerse.
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