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Chino Love Song 1979[Talking: Origin Unknown]Family, and uh, cleave to your wife, and, that I think that really set the theme for us As far as the oneness, and that was that The oneness and the completeness [Verse 1: John Darnielle] And the May sun shone down on California, and the Strawberries grew fat and full and thick and red And as big as your fist And the traffic on Riverside Drive was thin But by no means non-existent, when [Chorus] I saw you against the soda machine I saw you leaning there [Verse 2] And your hand in the basket was nimble-fingered And red finger-nailed And it made me remember the sunflower that popped-up Outside my window one morning in Norwalk It was bright yellow and it was real inviting I almost forgot that it was an intruder [Chorus] I saw you against the soda machine I saw you leaning there I saw you against the soda machine I saw you leaning there |