HIDDEN SONGS OF THE OREGON COAST

People play their guitar in the basement alone looking for hidden songs.

Hidden songs?

There you are moving around the fretboard and something sounds different.

You play it again. Nice.

While you play you remember the old times you had when you were younger.

Like yesterday.

Have you ever looked at windows and wondered ‘what it’s like up there?

 

 

That’s the hidden song.

What’s it like up in that top left window overlooking everything like a king in his castle?

The windows are full of people eating, drinking, looking out on the sea lions of Newport, Oregon, some for the first time, some for the last, and everything in between.

They might be loved ones celebrating their time together with hopes of more in the future.

Or business people closing a deal.

They might be a family rolling off the beach where one of them made reservations earlier for just the right time? (Hey Kelly)

Where’s the hidden song? Come out, come out, wherever you are. Ollie, ollie, oxen free.

It could be a song about going into the Devil’s Punchbowl and never coming out.

Or Thor’s Well.

Looking out that window could be the key.

 

Take A Look

Baby boomers have been looking for a long time.

It didn’t start in 1970, but this did:

 

There’s a giant doin’ cartwheels, a statue wearin’ high heels
Look at all the happy creatures dancin’ on the lawn
A dinosaur Victrola, listenin’ to Buck Owens
Doo, doo, doo, lookin’ out my back door

Tambourines and elephants are playin’ in the band
Won’t you take a ride on the flyin’ spoon? Doo, doo, doo
Wondrous apparition provided by a magician
Doo, doo, doo, lookin’ out my back door

 

 

Up in the Clearwater they have a seafood tower on the menu.

Let me know if you’ve ever seen it. I looked around.

I tried to estimate how much all of the food on the tables weighed in case I started eating like an otter and needed 25% of my body weight every day.

PS:

What’s a group called that keeps it together on the road? The right group.

 

PSS:

When you read about people who say everyone is ‘just like family’ meet their family before you join in.

The sea lions in the harbor seem like family until you watch them compete for dock space.

It looks like they’re fighting for everything. What’s the winner get? A seafood tower?

I’m tuning up and going in. Who’s with me.