From the recording Taking My Time
I remember nights where I could hear the sound of Hip Hop music blaring away at all hours. There were times when L.A. was a noisy place. This song reflects on that as well as trying to get a job and settle into the life of the West Coast, always searching within me to find the answers to my life.
Lyrics
Temple Within
[verse]
Woke again to the hip-hop music
blaring out from across the street
and the screaming of a crying baby
keeps me further from the love in my dreams.
[verse]
Now there's plaster falling from my ceiling
pushed by bugs on the mighty retreat
as I throw my shoe across the wasteland
they seem to slip between the air and me
[chorus]
I walk the streets
til my feet hit the ocean
I'm tempted to continue
but I can't really swim.
so I join drum circles
of the beach bums and daydreamers
searching for answers
from the temple within
[instrumental]
[verse]
I tried to find me a decent job
tried to be a corporate man
couldn't follow orders from stupid monkeys
dancing waltzes to impress the man
[verse]
So I left them behind in the mirror
as I drove down the sunset boulevard
As I reached for a new horizon
I knew someday I'd get very far
[chorus]
I walk the streets
til my feet hit the ocean
I'm tempted to continue
but I can't really swim.
so I join drum circles
of the beach bums and daydreamers
searching for answers
from the temple within
I walk the streets
til my feet hit the ocean
I'm tempted to continue
but I can't really swim.
[instrumental]
[chorus]
I walk the streets
til my feet hit the ocean
I'm tempted to continue
but I can't really swim.
so I join drum circles
of the beach bums and daydreamers
searching for answers
from the temple within
[chorus]
I walk the streets
til my feet hit the ocean
I'm tempted to continue
but I can't really swim.
so I join drum circles
of the beach bums and daydreamers
searching for answers
from the temple within