I didn’t catch this the first time. My VCR (bought from the mystic in SoHo) has a preview where you can see what has been recorded playing while you browse. The song that plays while Hurley drives the bus around the island is the same that played on the radio at the very first part of “Tricia Tanaka is Dead” (Tricia being the news reporter crushed by the meteorite.) Hurley as a kid got ditched by his dad at the beginning. Then he’s lonely at the end, but he seems more fulfilled. He drives doughnuts by himself as the lyrics to “Shambala” by Three Dog Night blasts. Then Michael Giacchino (same guy who did The Incredibles score) wrote an orchestral arrangement of it for the credits. Pretty cool. Kinda like when “Moonlight Serenade” by Glenn Miller played when Hurley theorized about time travel for the first time on the beach. Further searching gave me this list of all of the songs.
Wash away my troubles, wash away my pain
With the rain in Shambala
Wash away my sorrow, wash away my shame
With the rain in Shambala(chorus)
Ah, ooh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeahEveryone is helpful, everyone is kind
On the road to Shambala
Everyone is lucky, everyone is so kind
On the road to Shambala(repeat chorus)
How does your light shine, in the halls of Shambala
I can tell my sister by the flowers in her eyes
On the road to Shambala
I can tell my brother by the flowers in her eyes
On the road to Shambala(repeat chorus)
How does your light shine, in the halls of Shambala
Enlightenment in the land of Peace is not here yet, my friends.
(But you will find a yeti in the Himalayas. Perhaps one with a snowcone.)
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