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The Road Northwest (feat. Smoky Tiger)
Baba Brinkman

Dance, dance, dance down the road

Observe the ancient code

Of rhythm and flow


I've been all across the map, but I'm always going back

To the Pacific Northwest, 'cause that's where I rest at

Plus, sometimes I soberly ask myself

What's my backup plan in case of global collapse

And I feel, it's not an over reaction, hell no

Imagine a total absence of authority

It's happened many times in the past historically

With survivors fighting over scraps and acting horribly

Maybe I shouldn't believe Cormack McCarthy

But what's your plan to go back to Kansas, Dorothy

When the grocery stores close their doors, but it isn't a civil war

Just millions of poor and civilians beginning to starve with no energy source

Could you pack your things and go live in the forest?

Until the public trust wasn't so touch and go

Could you provide for a tribe of 25 or so

You better find a place where the wild mushrooms grow

Where the bucks and does graze on the side of the roads

Kinda sounds like a place that I grew up in though

As anyone in British Columbia knows, West Coast


The road Northwest

On the road

Observe the ancient code

Of rhythm and flow

Dance, dance, dance down the road

But never let them steal your soul


Go east

And you'll find civilization's increasingly ancient, expansive land masses

Palaces built on the ruins of sand castles

Layer after layer of man's trappings

Go west

And you'll meet the limits of human advances


Buildings get increasingly ramshackled

With summers of abundance and winters of avalanches

Wilderness that hits you right in the Adam's Apple

Yeah, it's magical, it's a survivalist's dream

With landlocked salmon spawning up wide crystal streams

And forest as far as the eye can see

Even when you climb to the peak of the highest tree

Am I making sense, all I'm saying is 'Yes!'

There's no place on this planet like the Canadian West

And when climate change hits

Me and my people might just make a nest

And watch as civilization ends


The road Northwest

On the road

Observe the ancient code

Of rhythm and flow

Dance, dance, dance down the road

But never let them steal your soul


Dance when you're broken, dance to atone

Dance with your blood and dance with your bone


Dance in the morning and in the afternoon

Underneath the blazing sun, underneath the shining moon


Dance for your father and for your son

Dance for your momma 'til your sins are gone


Dance for the dinosaurs who died long ago

Dance for the leprechauns if there's hidden gold

But if you wanna steal it then you can't be slow

Look there's a rainbow, that's your road


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