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2002

by BRAZZAVILLE

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Deng Xiaoping A true Asada king Lay dying in Shanghai A comet tracing through the sky Chairman Mao Heard thunder in the dawn The old guard’s come and gone And underneath our world’s a drone While my grandfather floats in the sea All the angels stare at me The dome of the sky fades away All I see is outer space While my grandfather floats in the sea Chairman Mao laughs joyfully The dome of the sky fades away And every now and then I see some outer space Off the coast The shipping lanes are closed The fields have all gone dry The satellites are standing by But Bay-one – He’s whirling like a Khan Mole’s like a swan The airwaves of the demi-monde
2.
Agua de coco Caldo de cana Dentes de oro Confusao urbana The storm clouds roll in Set me free Fortuna It’s late and I can’t find my friends Caldo de cana Macumba da cidade chegou Muambeiro anarquista eubou Malandro tambem tem coracao The rain’s still coming down The rain’s still coming down…
3.
Sewers of Bangkok That’s what they call me From the jungle towns To the slums of the city I’ve seen the devil The charming stranger And I’ve seen the devil The old bone crusher I’m the Sewers of Bangkok And everything rolls off my back I’ll have coffee and sweet cakes For everyone stuck on the losing track The kids picking garbage The old folks who live by the trains I’ll wash all their feet with my tears And their hearts with the summer rain There’s an order in the world But it’s hidden from our view It’s in traffic jams and zip codes In the early morning blue It’s in the third world hostess Who’s turning 33 In the tenant farmer In the plane that crashed at sea
4.
Pablo stares at the moon Pencil moustache Cheap hotel room Waiting for dawn Alone To take him home Taxi drivers and whores Kids on the street Watching for cops Keeping him safe Since his escape But now it’s late Soldiers search through the night Closing in fast Closing in tight Each wants to be The one To kill the Don
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Ocean 04:17
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Voce 05:15
Cumulonimbus forms The mornings down here are warm The smuggler has his charm Smoking in the dawn Under the Arctic sun The submarines make their runs The high-flying planes look on The endgame has begun Voce e muito gostosa Mas tenho namorada ja Land of the Morning Calm Land of the Rising Sun Land of the Atom Bomb Tigers of Elam Hey, o mundo caiou bem I wonder maybe If you could do the same
7.
IMF 03:31
Little girl from Hindustan Holds the world inside her hand Poorer than a Delhi rat Feeds the dolphins at the ghat Factory ships and market share Stocks and bonds and thinning hair IMF and shanty towns Your heroes hiding underground Look! He’s like a skeleton Walking naked through Sudan His children and his wife are dead He’d like a bullet in his head
8.
Shioda 04:17
The world can fall apart outside my door I don’t care no more The air-raid siren sings the song of war I don’t care no more Salt and cherry blossom tea Has the flavor of the sea The monsoon winds are punishing the shore I don’t care no more The world can fall apart outside my door I don’t care no more South of Java in the sea Nirorukidul’s Ali The air-raid siren sings the song of war I don’t care no more The world can fall apart outside my door I don’t care no more Salt and cherry blossom tea…
9.
Shams 04:45
Ali was a sailor’s son Joined the merchant fleet at twenty-one Dreams of ports in distant lands A bag of figs and some low-grade heroin As the years rolled by at sea Ali thought about his destiny Tired of the sailor’s life Ali thought he’d find himself a wife Lisbon, Guangzhou, Taipei, Bandung, Naples, Brunei, Capetown, Shanghai, Bangkok, Pusan, Dublin, Luzon, Lima, Dakar, Cypress, Malta Sometimes things aren’t what they seem Late one night our sailor had a dream A queen of Indonesian lore A voice he’d loved a thousand years or more Lisbon, Guangzhou, Taipei, Bandung… When the typhoon struck at dawn Ali had his finest civvies on All the crew were cramped below And with a smile into the sea he dove
10.
Summer’s been delayed But I don’t want to think about it In the shade of a Guar Gum tree 1963 Devils by the lake were spotted 1963 Way across the pond European trade commissions Selling jasmine in Istanbul Suicides and freak conditions Candles by the lake were burning 1963

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released February 11, 1998

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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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