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Artist: California
Canonical path: /california/bad-directions
Related lyric paths: 3
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Bad Directions
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Curated by Ethan Walker
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Bad Directions
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I always take the back roads
Leave the traffic to everyone else
I can't take the clamor of the crowd
I'll take the scenic route
Talkin' on tomorrow
Tonight's only halfway done
I never was to be hurried about
Please, just slow down
And I know we all start out with bad directions
Don't give up, 'til now we've made it through
'Cause it makes you more like them
When you give them what they want
The need to please them
Is to belong
Boom box on the dashboard
St. Christopher on a chain
Head up north, back east, down south
Out West we'll drive it down
Roads turn to gravel
Some are paved quite well
Some are even at odds with their address now
Caught in a roundabout
And I know we all start out with bad directions
Don't give up, 'til now we've made it through
'Cause it makes you more like them
When you give them what they want
The need to please them
Is just what they want
Take the road less traveled
And fold all the maps away
Put it all in that unfinished novel someday
A postcard, anyway
Anyway
And I know we all start out with bad directions
We get lost, somehow we make it through
'Cause I may not know my streets
But I know my directions
Come on, we'll go out across these avenues
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