The Western Dream - San Jose [Official Video]
Stream: / san-jose
written and produced by: Isaac Lo
directed and shot by: Andy Juice
special thanks: Albert Tseng and Hadley Klein (drivers)
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Lyrics:
Consume me spirit of the 49's
to carve across the land and the sands of time
I'm striking out for the west in my U-haul car
gonna cross the sierras and the stars
Oh river of gold roll through the days
I ride the union train in your cinnabar veins
but now the ground beneath me starts to shake
I drink the poison wine in the quicksilver lakes
Oh San Jose, you city, you just can't wait
Oh, San Jose you city on the bay
You can't leave your past behind off the Capitol expressway
San Jose you city going fast
don't you know all things are gonna pass you even living on the fast lane
San Jose, you city without rain
I hear the mission bells ring through to the seas
down where the western dream meets its destiny
but these golden gates just cannot take that weight
Lord please take this fate or is it just too late
Mercury, you god of commerce and deceit
flowing down though the barren creeks and the market streets
and just like your fields of wheat, you gotta sow and reap
I see the asphalt blister in the midday heat
Oh San Jose, you city on your feet
Oh, San Jose you city on the bay
You can't leave your past behind off the Capitol expressway
San Jose you city going fast
don't you know all things are gonna pass you even living on the fast lane
So will you heed
The greyscale men in flash
and the shadow in the valley they cast
of the curse, the first and the last
Oh San Jose, you city, will it last
Oh, San Jose you city on the bay
You can't leave your past behind off the Capitol expressway
San Jose you city going fast
don't you know all things are gonna pass you even living on the fast lane
Oh San Jose, may winds of change just blow down the weather vanes
(Andy Ju, 2021)