Coyotes Of Hollywood

from Gravitational Force by David Roos

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Guided by clouds and stars, running from fires
flying over Mulholland, Topanga, to the sea

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Coyotes Of Hollywood

He had the open heart of a stereotypical hollywood drifter
but an unrelenting voice in the wings always whispered stand still
right below the sole of your borrowed wingtips, there's a masking tape mark
and the lights have all been rigged to find you there

A stationary soul, in a planetary spin
each scene brings another chance to reinvent yourself, to see within
to take the words that writers write and memorize what comes around again
to live the other worlds, that live inside someone else's pen

Typecast, at the end of a, a thin line
rewritten, just that afternoon
looking, for the right take, the right spin, for the right feel
and then on to the next reel, on to the next reel

Coyotes run through these hills, you can see them every night
you can always recognize them when you see them mirrored in your headlights
cautious, and questioning, symmetrical in size
staring straight into the night, at exactly coyote eye height

Guided by clouds and stars, running from fires
flying over Mulholland, Topanga, to the sea
we used to dream in black and white
we used to see what isn't there, but used to be
we never thought that we could swim
we were never taught that we could fly
what we see tonight, we could never imagine
when we were pups, howling in our pack
we could never imagine this, even just last night

We hold the script closer to our squinting eye
we wonder if those cautionary tales might, at last, hold an ounce of truth
we settle into the sense of ease that only hard-won years can bring
we sing along with anthems that only catch what our memories can prove

Sailing down Sunset, to Malibu, and north along the coast
We sometimes take what isn't freely given
We sometimes ask for just a little bit more
we never thought that we could swim
we were never taught that we could fly
what we see tonight, we could never imagine
when we were young
we could never imagine this, even just last night

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from Gravitational Force, released July 22, 2014

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