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 Rooming house on venice beach.
 Rooming house on venice beach.

 It was a rooming house on venice beach
 Nice and cheap
 A radiator and a sagging bed
 On which to sleep
 I didn't lock it
 Who would want my cheap guitar
 And that t-shirt in those paper bags
 Naw, naw.
 The ancient world was in my reach
 From my rooming house on venice beach.

 It was rough rough rough
 With ancient rustic hippie stuff
 It was cheap cheap cheap
 Nowadays i hear that rents are steep
 It was eerie, eerie, eerie
 Followers of watts and leary
 You could walk walk walk
 To marina del rey by the dock
 Oh the ancient world was in my reach
 From my rooming house on venice beach.

 Rooming house on venice beach
 Rooming house on venice beach
 Oh wa, oh wa, oh wa
 Well rooming house on venice beach

 It was a rooming house on venice beach
 About half a block
 To the ancient sea which i could reach
 With half a walk
 The ancient weird guy in his toga
 Staff in hand
 The ancient bearded guy doing yoga
 On the sand
 Oh the ancient world was in my reach
 From my rooming house on venice beach

 It was cheap cheap cheap
 Nowadays i hear that rents are steep
 It was rough rough rough
 With ancient rustic hippie stuff
 It was wild wild wild
 You're never gonna call it mild
 Hip hip
 I could move and not make a second trip
 The ancient world was in my reach
 From my rooming house on venice beach

 Let's go...
 Rooming house on venice beach
 Rooming house on venice beach
 Oh wa, oh wa, oh wa
 Rooming house on venice beach

 It was a rooming house on venice beach
 All screwed up
 Half a block from the ancient drunk guys
 Passing the cup
 Half a block from the bearded wierd guys
 Singing flat
 Half a block from the wierdo wierd guys
 Passing the hat
 And the ancient world was in my reach
 From my rooming house on venice beach.

 Rooming house on venice beach
 Rooming house on venice beach
 Oh wa, oh wa, oh wa
 Rooming house on venice beach
 Oh the ancient world was in my reach
 From my rooming house on venice beach

 It was a rooming house on venice beach
 Where i was
 Half a block i love that place
 Just because
 Well i didn't want it
 Who would want my bag of crap
 So i never locked the old screen door
 I just let it flap
 Oh the ancient world was in my reach
 From my rooming house on venice beach

 It was rough rough rough
 With ancient rustic hippie stuff
 It was eerie, eerie, eerie
 Followers of watts and leary
 It was wild and free
 And that appealed to me
 It was hip hip hip
 I could move and not make a second trip.
 The ancient world was in my reach
 From my rooming house on venice beach

 Rooming house on venice beach
 Rooming house on venice beach
 Oh wa, oh wa, oh wa
 Rooming house on venice beach