El Capitan Lyrics

Twenty-something years ago, a group of folks—-healers, airmen, woodcutters, hunters, and members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir—give birth to five children in various locales. As the children grow, their folks force upon them Simon and Garfunkel, Beach Boys and Beatles, old country, bad lite-rock and Christian nursery rhymes, a little jazz, and a bunch of AM radio. The five kids are kinda weird; they get chased by things unreal through the woods and try to talk to airplanes with scrap metal. Time is spent at the altar, concussions are landed… They do things they’re not supposed to and bum the other kids out in choir and band class. They’re remembering, quite well, the music they’ve heard.The kids get bigger, doing more stuff they shouldn’t... read more