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Somnambulista

by BRAZZAVILLE

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Air Mail 04:18
Fallen down He’s too weary Can’t get up His eyes are blurry Chinatown He just fades away He’s drunk up 1/2 his weight in sherry Swallowed the apothecary Whispering a farewell lullaby I’ve seen enough in my old life Just send an airmail to my wife Tell her her hobo’s gone and died And that my world is looking wide He came to town 37 years ago His hair was long His eyes were blue He lived down by the sea Head full of poetry Rock & roll and galleries Nickel bags and happenings The fall of ’63 I’ve seen enough in my old life… etc. The years rolled by 3rd & Broadway caught his eye Black tar, speed and china white Took it all away Left him in ragged clothes Cardboard boxes for a home An old man when he should be young Trashing through the day
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Fades like a super 8 Shot from above the parade My mother the sad young Jew Glimpsed in a dream or two She’s always my saving grace Love beneath the waves Memories of her face Drag me down like heroin Foreign Disaster Days Well there’s nothing like a car bomb Window shopping at three All she ever wanted Was a lighthouse by the sea
3.
Sandman 04:05
Hills facing east The slums have a view Of the sea Towards Africa gaze Tenderly The rains last for weeks 1st of the year We’ll meet in Flamengo For tea We’ll smoke cigarettes By the sea Sandman & me Menina dengosa Nao chore amor A vida e saudade Beleza e dor La da Palestrina Morre o cantor Word on the street Jorge Ben’s gonna sing New Year’s Eve In Rio the rains Last for weeks The rains last for weeks
4.
Boeing 03:53
Late afternoon A girl in a black-lit room Music plays She dances her heart away Worn out days Head full of cheap cocaine Old memories fade Of Europe in younger days With long haired boys Hitchhiking down to Spain Up all night Laughin’ in cheap cafes Boeing Carry me away Help me press erase On all of my stupid mistakes Trans-Atlantic Boeing dreams Coffee and French TV Fleur-de-lis 30,000 feet above the sea Jet stream and poppy seeds Sad to leave
5.
Casa Batllo 04:55
She smelled like a thunderstorm When I met her Down in the Tenderloin Sipping tea Vicodin pills, some scotch And a sweater Soon I was feeling Back on my feet She lived in a little shack By the water The sound of the ships would lull Us to sleep A couple of sloths the world Had forgotten With nothing but youth And faraway dreams After the saints fly home Solomon resting in his tomb Paperbacks on a train Sugarcane fields All wet with rain Hurricane lanterns glow After the rain the boats are slow I’d rather be left behind Nothing’s as pure As an empty mind
6.
Lunch special Koreatown Cuban fried bananas Lazy, flawed & hopeless All our cars Are rusted through TV’s in the garbage Lazy, flawed & hopeless Fame and Fortune We’re caught up in the game I love the smell Of asphalt in the rain When my days Have come and gone Lay down with my blanket Lazy, flawed & hopeless Load me on An aeroplane Point me towards the tropics Lazy, flawed & hopeless Lazy, flawed & hopeless
7.
Jane 05:46
I miss you dear It’s quiet up here Lost in the troposphere At dawn Hurricane clouds appear Roll on… An April storm Yamamba clones Lost in the troposphere At dawn Hurricane clouds appear Roll on… Asteroid fields Comets and mangosteen Vapor trails Lost on a lonely beach Televised The old transmission flaw Empty eyes With no place left to go Lost in the troposphere At dawn
8.
Super Gizi 03:39
Let’s make a scene ‘Cause baby, you’re my queen You are my favorite time day New York in May A Barcelona rain Nothing’s as moving as you little face Jet lagged at sea Like Super Gizi in my tea Mistress from Bangkok Fallen beauty of my dreams After the rain The comets linger in the sky Lyin’ on his back He watched the satellites float by If life’s just a dream A melancholy scene I want to sleep with you forever dear…
9.
4AM Osaka 03:24
4 a.m. Osaka My brain’s a mess Octopus balls and sauce End of the century stress Sleeping on the floor Of a record store The girl that I love’s at home Facing the world alone Eyvind Kang Eyvind Kang Eyvind Kang Waltzing with Eyvind Kang Sea cucumber stew And a pot of tea Taiwanese cigarettes Commuters all fast asleep
10.
Old Man Dub 06:23
Pall Malls And a racing form Oh oh oh… An old man In a furnished room Oh oh oh… Had his eyeglasses Smashed again Oh oh oh… Prowlin’ downtown For some teenage skin Oh oh oh… Fingernail dirt And blackhead cheeks Oh oh oh… His faded “Members Only” speaks Oh oh oh The sky says forever The clouds wander by The heat of September Makes him glow Korean War Setting sun Dashing and young Now he’s so alone
11.
Runnin’ downtown with the drag queens turning tricks Down by the pier A twenty’ll buy a balloon and some beer It’s our weakness that makes us beautiful to God, That’s what she said If your life’s too safe you might as well be dead Quedate en tu apartamiento… She smiled a lot for a girl who was raped Since she was 12 Her Daddy said, Girl you’re goin’ straight to hell Back in Puerto Rico The dawn smelled like cinnamon Cumulonimbus clouds hid the sun 3rd & Broadway… Land of Sad Days

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Recorded at the Speed Semen Clove Factory in Los Angeles in 1998/99. Produced by Michael Rozon.

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released March 11, 2000

Produced by Michael Rozon.

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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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