Highland Park Is Blurry

 

HIGHLAND Park is Blurry

I had eye surgery on Tuesday this week, and this song came to me Wednesday night in a dream. See, Highland Park is a neighborhood town-thingy in LA that I gotta drive through to get to the 134 freeway, which took me to the surgery place. When I randomly heard the "Highland Park is Blurry" hook of this song in my dream, I wrote it down cuz that's what I do. Later on, I realized that particular sentence is a weird double entendre: My eyeball that I needed the surgery for was blurry, and some might describe the culture in Highland Park as bein' blurry, in the sense that it's rapidly gentrifying. The culture of Highland Park is a blurry mass, consisting of the original people who live there and the new people streaming in.

Don't worry, I actually had a person drive me to the surgery place, unlike how it looks in the picture. I drew it that way because me drivin' by myself in the picture adds a bit o' poignancy or something to this whole thing.

The lyrics are:

Highland Park is blurry

It is a town confusing to me, like an eyeball refusing to see
Highland Park is blurry
Gentrification blurred the identity of this old town, it feels like a pity
I had to stay a little longer there; I had to stay a little longer there

I was in a hurry
This is the shortest way to the freeway, if I am late it will not be okay
To my eyeball surgery

I had to stay a little longer there; I had to stay a little longer there

I got stuck at the green light

I'm on my way to eyeball surgery
I'm seeing gray, my eyeball is blurry
I'm heading toward the one thirty four
It's a freeway that's a main corridor
I'm headed through the town, Highland Park

And it is so blurry that it feels dark
Gentrification blurred the identity
Of this old town, it feels like a pity

Highland Park is Blurry

I had to stay a little longer there, I had to stay a little longer there

Here's the alternative player thingy, in case it suits your needs better than the one up top: