Being from Omak

Omak 1967

Being from Omak is like being

From the center of the universe.

Both of them are from way out

In outer space

And once you get that far out

You have just gone too far

Most of the time it felt like the world

Was spinning somewhere too far away

You really had to go out of your way

To get to either place

And once you get there you

Probably aren't aren't turning around back

Being from Omak was just as

Hard as finding the center of gravity.

Life is simple at the center of the universe

When you find your destination

This life is a journey

And I am learning to enjoy the adventure

Even though I 'm big on the remorse

From time to time just to even things out

Being from Omak was like being a kid at the Carnival

Expectant, Bug-Eyed & Pretty Naïve

Just waiting to take another ride with that

Hot new chick from your Literature Class

She is wearing a turquoise gauze blouse

And you're really hoping that you can

Get your hand up her shirt

And feel around in that delicate world

Being from Omak was wanting to drive

Your parent's cars around in the summer at night

And think nothing of nothing but girls

And beer and maybe the bastard who store your cigarettes

Sometimes guys were a bit nerthanderthal

Punching and hitting each other hard

Smoking out in the garage under the hood

Of the car fixing the carburetor and timing your

Chain so you can go faster than any other hood from

Okanogan to Tonasket

Being from Omak made you look up to heaven

To the Center of the Universe

And say why put me here

There must be a reason I'm filling this spot

Some plans must have been made but I have not been told

And I don't understand how I got to this place.

Fate drops us down in our places

I have been told

In a previous life

I must have been out of aces

I had to walk the gang plank

And when I awoke it was like being from Omak