Pedasi.panama.2004 A couple days after the boxing day tsunami, i had written some really heavy songs [i had lost friends]...i wanted to write something to lighten up... i was newly in love and traveling with my then girlfriend... now wife... mostly on the azuero peninsula where my father founded a marine science reserve. In a nearby cowboy town, after a particularly brutal rodeo, a band played... samy and sandra sandoval... one of the more awesome musical experiences i have ever witnessed... a cayman had just tried eating a friend's labrador... the panamanian president at the time was walking thru the midnight dirt streets of pedasi with her girlfriends drinking... as were we... the local seco [moonshine]. We were staying at this eccentric french guy's insanely beautiful bed and breakfast... it was a beautiful time and place... not sure how spike got into this one... glad he's here... At least you're trying Everybody else down here's just buying Whatever is at the going rate today It's always got to be about the chase My friend Spike Said sorry, but it's just a pony ride But it's on the table here today So it's going to have to be okay In Panama In Panama It's going to have to be okay And then we give it all away We'll at least you're thinking Everybody else I know is just drinking Drinking up a wave of regret And I don't think they've finished drinking yet In the dancing hall Samy and Sandra Sandoval Finger on the heartbeat of it all From Pedasi to Cambutal In Panama In Panama It's going to have to be okay But everybody loves you anyway And then the question comes up Are we wasting our time Is this the presence of God Or just a presence of mind In Panama In Panama It's going to have to be okay Think you're going to make it anyway Hanging over Over to a hanger for a party The flying season's getting started You'll take it on a wing and fly away We'll at least you're flying Because everybody else I know here's dying It's what you've got to love about the crocodile At least he's going to kill you with a smile In Panama In Panama It's going to have to be okay Everybody loves you anyway In Panama In Panama It's going to have to be okay Everybody loves you, baby