Urban

Passing through unconscious states

When I awoke, I was on the highway

Death Cab for Cutie, “A Movie Script Ending”

City Streets

He sees the city’s ripped backsides
He sees the winding ocean drive
And everything was made for you and me
All of it was made for you and me
‘Cause it just belongs to you and me
So let’s take a ride and see what’s mine

Iggy Pop, “The Passenger”

Public Art

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all

Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

John Keats, “Ode to a Grecian Urn”

Waterfront

Barges, I would like to go with you,

I would like to sail the ocean blue.

Barges, have you treasures in your hold?

Do you fight with pirates brave and bold?

Camp song “Barges”

Parks

All the leaves are brown

And the sky is gray

I’ve been for a walk

On a winter’s day

The Mamas and the Papas, “California Dreamin'”

Campuses

Here is the home of color and of light

Ella Higginson, “The College by the Sea”

Schools

Good morning, good morning, good morning to you

It’s nice to be here, we have lots to do

And we’ll learn as we play, and work through our day

Good morning, good morning, good morning to you

Song by my kindergarten teacher

Museums

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,

Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1.5.167-8)