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Skip that.

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One called Stone
Canyon Nocturne.

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Stone Canyon is a
canyon in Los Angeles.

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Whatever that's worth.

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Rick Nelson had the
Stone Canyon Band.

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I guess he lived there.

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He could afford to live there.

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No one else could.

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The Bel Air Hotel
is in Stone Canyon,

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and they have a couple
of swans, and that's

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why the swans come in here.

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Actually, it has nothing to do
with the Bel Air Hotel at all.

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Oh, Ancient of
Days is a euphemism

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for God, which is also a
euphemism for God, right?

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Because everything is
a euphemism for God,

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because no one can say his name.

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Stone Canyon Nocturne.

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Ancient of Days, old friend, no
one believes you'll come back.

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No one believes in
his own life anymore.

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The moon like a dead heart,
cold and unstartable,

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hangs by a thread at the Earth's
edge, unfaithful at last,

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sploshing the ferns
and the pink shrubs.

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In the other world,
children undo the knots

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in their tally strings.

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They sing songs, and
their fingers blear.

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And here, where the swan
hums in his socket, where

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bloodroot and belladonna
insist on our comforting,

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where the fox in the
canyon wall empties

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our hand, ecstatic for more,
like a bead of clear oil

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the Healer revolves
through the night wind,

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part eye, part tear,
unwilling to recognize us.