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Earthquakes
03:03
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EARTHQUAKES, MURDERS AND ALLIGATORS
Drifting through the cosmos they enfold you
The stars are like a billion flakes of snow
A tiny melody within without you
Now it seems it's time for you to go
Go now honey we'll see you later
Don't be frightened by the world
Earthquakes, murders and alligators
They can't hurt our little girl
Don't be frightened by the world
Your mama did the best she could to raise you
But she was just too young, still running wild
Alcohol and motel rooms and strange men
The judge said it was no place for a child
Go now honey...
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Ustalichka
04:15
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USTALICHKA
Ustalichka
Nobody knows what to do with her
16 and her lipstick's blue
Ustalichka
Danger is all around out there
But she doesn't seem to care
Clove cigarettes and rum
In the warm California sun
With pink sunglasses
And a piercing in her tongue
Her foster home in LA
Seems 20 million miles away
And a new life's waiting
In San Francisco Bay
Ustalichka
Hitchhiking up the highway 1
In the warm California sun
Ustalichka
Watches the surfers on her way
To the cold San Francisco Bay
Clove cigarettes and rum...
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From the East
04:03
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From the 17 hundredth floor
She watches the swallows soar
Storm coming from the east
From the east
From the east
A cumulonimbus dream
Like poppy fields and whipping cream
And tears flowing from the east
From the east
From the east
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
She's so far gone
In old Hong Kong
Dim red lights
With wooden pillows
Her boyfriend was named RD
He said you never had no dreams like these
The needle is sharp and clean
It's from the east
From the east
A warmth and some distant bells
The sweetest thing she ever felt
The smoothest road into Hell
Is from the East
From the east
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
She's so far gone...
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Dyed Red Hair
03:09
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Pale skin and dyed red hair
Little pink flowers on her underwear
Long nights on the boulevard
Purse full of Trojans, light blue leotard
A small town in nowhere USA
Barely 15 when she ran out to LA
Big dreams to one day be a star
Somehow she landed on the boulevard
Oh the boulevard
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Morro Bay
03:59
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It's almost dawn
She walks down Market Street alone
Some drunken johns
Left bruises on her arms
This ice cold world
Gas station bathroom roadside girl
Fluorescent stalls
With gang graffiti on the walls
But maybe one day
Some clear blue Sunday
She'll meet a guy who wants to stay
Someone who loves her
Kisses and hugs her
Along the shores of Morro Bay
The highway home
Back to the sky where we belong
It feels so long
When you're on your own
But maybe one day....
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Soft Parade
02:57
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Summer days
Remind me of the Soft Parade
17 in LA
And my heart kept breaking
So long ago
Road trips down to Mexico
With On The Road
And Gravity's Rainbow
La la la la la la
The desert wind
It blew in like a long lost friend
Just you and me
At 3 AM
And the waves crashing on the sand
Did the Heaven's know
One day I would fall so low
A roadside girl
With no shelter from the cold
La la la la la la
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Broken Dreams
03:40
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Some are young and some are old
Some just want a girl to hold
Some are kind and some are mean
They treat you like a trampoline
And some they want to save your soul
Dawns in motel rooms
Sunday mornings
Early June
Pills and alcohol
Lonely truck stops
Bathrooms stalls
Lovers come and lovers go
And life it passes by real slow
Then one day you wake to find
That you're no longer 29
Just an old girl on the stroll
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Oh My Love
03:04
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Oh my love
They used to treat you like a queen
5 star hotels
But you're no longer 17
Oh my love
It felt so right when you began
The sweetest tears
From poppies in Afghanistan
Oh my love
The darkest hour's before the dawn
Downtown LA
The dirty streets the setting sun
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Going Home
03:25
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It's late September
Summer's over
And I'm on this beach alone
And I'm going home
The wind's grown colder
It's not like the gentle breezes
Back in June
And I'm going home
Summer's gone
I'm going home
Goodbye pain
Goodbye failing liver
I'm going home
Goodbye courts
And detention centers
I'm going home
Summer's gone
I'm going home
The waves and boulders
Wild California coastline
Highway 1
I'm going home
The first breath of water
Leads to a transcendental
Sense of calm
And I'm going home
Summer's gone
I'm going home
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Salty Shore
03:05
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I left my sins
On the salty shore
Those earthly tears
I won't cry no more
I traveled home
Through the deep blue sea
Back to the stars
And they welcomed me
Back to the stars
And they welcomed me
I lived a life
Full of joy and pain
It broke my heart
Time and time again
A rebel child
And a roadside girl
I grew tired and old
In the roadside world
I grew tired and old
In the roadside world
So I left my sins on the salty shore...
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Soft Parade 2
02:56
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Summer days
Remind me of the Soft Parade
17 in LA
And my heart kept breaking
So long ago
Road trips down to Mexico
With On The Road
And Gravity's Rainbow
La la la la la la
The desert wind
It blew in like a long lost friend
Just you and me
At 3 AM
And the waves crashing on the sand
Did the Heaven's know
One day I would fall so low
A roadside girl
With no shelter from the cold
La la la la la la
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12. |
Earthquakes-long version
04:20
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Drifting through the cosmos they enfold you
The stars are like a billion flakes of snow
A tiny melody within without you
Now it seems it's time for you to go
Go now honey we'll see you later
Don't be frightened by the world
Earthquakes, murders and alligators
They can't hurt our little girl
Don't be frightened by the world
The hospital it smelled like disinfectant
Florescent lights were too bright for your eyes
Your didn't make a sound when the doctor slapped you
Just listened to your teenage mother cry
Go now honey...
Your mama did the best she could to raise you
But she was just too young, still running wild
Alcohol and motel rooms and strange men
The judge said it was no place for a child
Go now honey...
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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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