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California

from Uprooted by The Spinning Game

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This song is very much about California Pennsylvania where there is a house venue called The Cook and Maid. I had just discovered this venue and all of the wonderful people involved in it before I had already made plans to leave the state, and so this song is both an expression of remorse and regret for leaving behind something that I would have truly loved to be a part of, but also an homage to a truly great place that even though I was only exposed for a brief period changed the tone of my life at the time and lifted my spirits enough to even make another EP.

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I lived off of scraps from under the table. I raised a Cain when willing and able. But I got a taste of you and you're all that I want to chew, and I don't want to leave but a nomad like a tumbleweed follows the breeze

California I'm going home, California I don't want to go

Body heat fills up this basement as we're chanting words in our native language. Yeah I played a show or two and now I don't want to move. But a pearl in the seas has to fight to the top if it wants to be seen

California I'm going home, California I don't want to go

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from Uprooted, released November 25, 2014
Shoun Dempsey - background vocals
Matthew Lester - everything else

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The Spinning Game Humble, Texas

The Spinning Game is the primary music project of the multi-instrumentalist, producer, and prolific songwriter Matthew Lester. The Spinning Game was started as Matt starting writing and recording which was when he was 11 and he hasn’t stopped writing the best songs he can possible ever since. ... more

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