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21st Century Girl

by BRAZZAVILLE

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LAX 03:24
LAX in a runway motel We just got off the phone You didn’t seem very well At 5 years old I had no place to go But you took me in And you gave me a home The planes fly overhead While I smoke Too many cigarettes in bed It rained last night ‘bout a quarter to 2 I was lyin’ awake Just thinkin’ ‘bout you A summer wind blowin’ in off the sea Full of childhood smells And aquamarine
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Monday morning and it’s raining All over town I feel the rumble of the trains Deep underground I check my inbox but there’s nothin’ there I guess she’s just gone away And she took my profile off her myspace yesterday ‘Cause she’s a 21st century girl And she’s searchin’ all around the world It’s hard to settle for a guy When there’s 30 million more to try She posts the photographs that make her look Real thin She lists her movies and her favorite bands Sends messages to all her friends She says she’s single and she don’t want kids I told her that that’s OK But she took my profile off her myspace yesterday ‘Cause she’s a 21st century girl…. We met for coffee at the Pickmeup Café We both were nervous and a little shy But we hung out for most of the day She kissed my eyelids and she held my hand But her eyes they seemed far away And she took my profile off her myspace yesterday
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Baltic Sea 03:47
Weather systems Baltic Sea Distant foghorns and some milky tea Amber scattered On the shores Washed up from ancient forest floors The earth pulls softly at my skin Beckoning me home again No more beaches or old guitars Just a skeleton Asleep among the stars A skeleton asleep among the stars The snow falls wet In Amsterdam Rusting bicycles and quiet trams And bakery smells And market stalls And houseboats in their Dark canals
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The Sun 03:08
I’ll blame it all on the Sun ‘Cause I can’t tell what’s goin’ on Since the day you walked away My heart beats like a different one It beats angry and cold Just passin’ time ‘til I get old Where the folly used to be It’s hardened and it’s cynical Ahhh! I’ll blame it all on the Sun That warmed the seas where life began Through the ferns and dinosaurs And straight through ‘til the time of Man ‘Cause without that mistake You wouldn’t have my heart to break I’d be floating peacefully Through the silent galaxies Ahhh! I’ll blame it all on the Sun The smell of cloves and cinnamon And the sound of summer rain And screams of children having fun And my grandmother’s hands And wanderin’ slow through foreign lands Betel nut and mangosteen And campfires in the desert sands
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Leo 02:33
He loves his old guitar Daydreamin’ by the bay But Leo called last night He’s drunk again His girlfriend was 22 He lost her in a plane But Leo called from France He’s drunk again And he says, Man, I know it’s a sad way to go But I can’t live without her Late at night I just stare up at the sky Man, I’m such a disaster He says I’d trade my old guitar My millions in the bank To see her one last time I’d do anything
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Anabel 03:11
I met a girl last summer Washed up on some foreign shore She was young and delightful Like others that I’ve known before But the hair on my head’s a little whiter now And when it rains my knees get sore We went for walks on the seaside Drank tea in a little café She laughed the first time that I kissed her And said that she thought I was gay Then she moved into my little bungalow And played my guitar everyday Anabel I miss you more than words could ever tell Anabel Your smile was like the springtime The London skies Are cold and gray and hide the stars at night And when it rains I can’t get you out of my mind I like writing postcards She likes to SMS She never goes to record stores She finds her music on the internet But those days that we spent down by the seaside They’re ones I’ll never forget
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You were born in ’67 About 9 o’clock at night A couple years before I lost control And ended up inside The clouds in Camarillo Shimmer with a light that’s so unreal Now I fear the stories that they told me Of how I hurt my baby, must be somehow true I stopped taking all my pills They made me feel so dead inside Just like the sun was goin’ out I didn’t think I could survive The clouds in Camarillo…. Now I’m writing from a caravan Behind your grandma’s place I think my spirit will be happier With the stars in outer space
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Aging Queens 03:56
Aging queens with matching dogs And call girls in strangers’ cars And bullies lining up to play Kick the Little Quiet Boy Surely the way this world was meant to be Still, it’s a little painful here for me The aged in their old folks homes With foggy eyes and threadbare robes And poets in coffee bars With messy hair and old guitars
9.
Hoover Street, downtown L.A. There’s an alley where you used to play You bounced a basketball alone While your father fought his wife at home You dreamed about him all your life Now you’re cryin’ in your sleep at night The world’s so big you feel so small And you wish you hadn’t come here at all But one day you’ll find You’ve got a young boy of your own And you swear you’ll treat him right So he never feels alone You’ll tuck him in at night Take him out once in a while Just to see him smile Just to see him smile You know he does the best he can But sometimes it’s hard to be a man He’d care about you if he could Inside he probably knows he should
10.
Up All Night 03:15
I was up all night Wonderin’ if I’ll ever amount to anything In this life ‘Cause now I’m not so young Nothing feels right And I was up all night Thinkin’ ‘bout the way you spoke to me In our last fight The love in your voice was gone Nothin’ feels right I’ve smoked a thousand cigarettes Left tiny ashes in the bed And I was up all night Dreamin’ up a world where everything Turns out right Where I’d never break your heart Nor you mine
11.
Baby Blue 03:54
I saw you walkin’ in the rain All those many years ago You looked a bit like Tom Verlaine I saw him once outside a show Ooooo Baby Blue Ooooo I just can’t get over you You seemed so suave and so remote And I was just 15 years old You had a black wool overcoat And lots of alcohol at home Ooooo Baby Blue Ooooo I just can’t get over you This old world’s changed a lot Since you caught the slow train home People live inside their laptops And in their tiny mobile phones Ooooo Baby Blue Ooooo I just can’t get over you
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Aquamarine 03:38
Aquamarine Came from a town near Beijing Sometimes in spring The fruit trees smelled like ice cream Aqua Tell me that life is just a dream Aqua And our suffering don’t mean anything Aqua Show me that things aren’t what they seem Aquamarine Aquamarine A Chinese waitress supreme Her thoughts are clean And all her movements serene Aqua…. Aquamarine What are you doing here in Spain You crossed the sea So tell me, What does it mean?

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released March 30, 2008

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BRAZZAVILLE Barcelona, Spain

Born in the Summer of Love to a Jewish mother and a Canadian father, David's attraction to exotic climes was nurtured at an impressionable age by his father, a trucker, with whom David rode shotgun while he hauled shipping containers from the ports of San Pedro to the Southern Pacific train yards.

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