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LAX
03:24
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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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21st Century Girl
04:15
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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The Clouds In Camarillo
03:23
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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
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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
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Hoover Street
03:48
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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
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Up All Night
03:15
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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
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Baby Blue
03:54
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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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The Hills of Anatolia
04:34
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Aquamarine
03:38
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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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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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