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oHIGHo

from made in voyage by BOTTOM

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OhighO aka “Searching for the Ultimate American Mind Altering”
Once, I hitched a ride in New Mexico with a native American Indian who was wearing a beat up Mickey Mouse T-shirt with the sleeves hacked off. The dashboard was covered in Motley Crew and Hanoi Rocks tapes, chunks of earth, rocks, feathers, and shriveled up leather pieces. He was gone on speedy pot. Over the blistering glam rock, he kept yelling, “do ya ever LISTEN to music?” then freakishly start laughing. This scared the crap out of me. This guy was on some kind of ride, I’d never seen anything like it. There was no stereotype holding this freakshow. It was the greatest 80 miles I’ve traveled.

After becoming unemployed from a mega franchise, I took a rehabilitative trip out West to Santa Cruz. I relayed the morning news to a bunch of hippies on Pacific Ave that “Jerry Garcia died.” I surfed that day and then drove to the Haight in the evening. Krishnas were already lined up on the corner like vultures waiting for the wounded to die. A sign read “Jerry’s with Krishna”. The Haight was filled with mourners, gazers, gapers, colorful buses, derelicts, punkers. The Bikers were out on parade. The air smelled of body stank and reefer and the notion that soon these people might escape this funk.

As a kid my friends and I would drive to follow bands on tour driving from Chicago to Ohio. It was a chance to escape the doldrums.
I’ve found that even at its lowest moments, searching is a lot more of a high than being stuck.

lyrics

BOTTOM : oHIGHo

Skate Away in the USA
Scars and stars I pledge to leave
Went out searching for America
Went out searching for the good in me
Hitched a ride with a native
Wearing tattered Mickey Mouse ears
He was laughing, yeah he was laughing
He was laughing from ear to ear

We were so pie eyed
We were oh so stoned
We were glad to see ya
Lost in oh, high, oh! Lost in, uh, high yo.

Quit my job at the franchise
Serving coffee in concert t's
All they said, yeah all they said was
It was good for me.
Pirhana man chant transindental
Hari Harley beg to believe.
I got so high thought that I
Was trippin' with the Dead.

We were so pie eyed
We were oh so stoned
We were glad to see ya
Lost in oh, high, oh! Lost in, uh, high yo.

Sceevy little bastard, don't know what you are after.
Dig on everything and it will fuck you up good.
Steeling all my time. You don't even have the kind.
You don't even have the mind to be sincere.
You want it hard and fast. You want to laugh last.
I think it'd be a gas to break face on my knuckle!

credits

from made in voyage, released December 31, 1998
Made in Voyage : oHIGHo
Music by Sina and BOTTOM
Lyrics by Sina
Mudflap Records 1999

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