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The Valley

from Pratfall by Jackie Cohen

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lyrics

i’m just another third generation
San Fernando Valley Beth Shalom kid
North Hills mother
Boyle Heights father
chose each other
chose Reseda Blvd
moved to the suburbs
can’t choose your daughters
they grow like wild tomatoes
straighten their teeth & fix their noses

O I’m just another family business used car lot princess
& i know
you never leave the valley
you know you never
you never leave
the sun glints on a noble blade (!)
laid to rest in balboa lake (!)
the sunset smog looks so sweet from my car (!)
the sky is never blue here
& the girls?
always are
they always are

i tried to get out
new york city
sent me home hay-made
no one there misses me
i feel so silly
should flee the country
held down by my own hand
the whole thing makes me dizzy
“you’ve got gloom goggles,” my mother boggles
she says i’m paranoid, “Jack, not much happens on South Saticoy”
but Jesus Mary, Mama! that’s what scares me - don’t you know?
O i know you know

you never leave the valley
you know you never
you never leave
the sun glints on a noble blade (!)
laid to rest in balboa lake (!)
the sunset smog looks so sweet from my car (!)
the sky is never blue here
& the girls?
they don’t get too far
they don’t get too far
O no they don’t
i won’t

credits

from Pratfall, released September 22, 2022
jackie: vocal, vocal drone
shaun fleming: ecstatic maximalist vocal cascade
natalie mering: glittering twelve-string guitar, the shine
rado: drums, guitars, bass (a guitar), synth city, piano, aux bangables, mpc (memory purification center)

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