Venice Beach

Venice beach is poppin' like live shrimp dropped on a hot walk

Hucksters, hustlers and hawkers set up their boardwalk shops

Home for all the homeless, hopeless well-heeled and deranged

Still nothin' here seems out of place or strange

There's an old smudge of a beatnik by the bay

Lookin' like a dog who's had his day like a dream he drifts away

He likes to go out on the pier to hear the reedy carousel

It's got a melody that sets you free and says

Let's set a spell just to hear the heartbeat in LA