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The Oceans of Ganymede

by BRAZZAVILLE

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1.
One day We'll meet In the Oceans of Ganymede Our souls will fly Past the comets and satellites Cozy and warm in that ocean In the sky I'll trade My sins For a bathing suit and some fins Cozy and warm in that ocean In the sky
2.
Happy Man 03:19
You're a player I know And I'm happy Happy just to let it go 'Cause you'll always be The best thing In this messed up world to me And I love you I don't care 'Bout the cruel things you do Take my heart And crush it in your hands 'Cause with you I'll always be a happy man The years roll by It shows In my salt and pepper hair My funny clothes I know it's hard For you To say goodbye To the highlife that we knew And I love you...
3.
Aurelia 03:19
Back in high school Runnin' with the cholos Like a young fool It was 3:15 in the mornin' Down by the sea wall You took my hands and wrapped me In your black shawl Then you stole my heart without warnin' Ahhhh my sweet Aurelia Dawn in California Where did the years go? Last I heard you moved out to New Mexico To a farm with organic honey I've got a family A stable job and life insurance Policy But your memory still hasn't left me Ahhh my sweet Aurelia...
4.
Girl 03:41
Try to hold on, girl It ain't easy when the world piles up I'll be your rock, girl You can hold me when you're drownin' Go on and cry, girl You don't always have to be so strong All of us die, girl That's how we find our way home And there's a thunderstorm In the city And it might wash us out To sea Maybe if we're lucky Storm colored eyes, girl And a juvenile delinquent smile You're still a child, girl And I've loved you for a long while So, go on and cry, girl.....
5.
Dear Diary 03:06
Dear Diary Some days it's hard to be a Human Being My step father drinks and beats my Mom and me And I stutter when I try to speak Tears on my pillow Dear Diary The kids at my school like to laugh At me I'm tall and I'm skinny and have Funny teeth And I stutter when I try to speak Tears on my pillow
6.
Aleppo 03:57
Aleppo in Spring Was calm And migrant birds would sing Now it's gone away It's all just dust And bones And hate Aleppo's gone She took all my loved ones with her It's time to move on To the unknown A rusty old boat Smugglers and nasty weather The European coast Sadness and hope With my law degree I'm still A rain soaked refugee Far away from home There's still Some Aleppo in me But Aleppo's gone....
7.
Come sleep on my shoulder For a while Let go of our troubled world Sleep like a little child In the morning I'll go A jet plane will far away from home So sleep on my shoulder for a while I'm not myself when you're away A minute feels like an hour An hour's like a day Come back to me soon I feel like I'm on the dark side of the moon A frozen and lightless string of days Love takes us all by surprise That 3 AM look in your eyes Your eyes, your eyes, your eyes That 3 AM look in your eyes Life is a dream in this hotel Saunas and Michelin stars Shallots and chanterelles But it's wasted on me Back in your arms is where I long to be Listenin' to rainfall by the sea Love takes us all by surprise....
8.
Robot 03:40
People used to ride horses Then they moved on to cars Then on to big jet planes And rockets to the stars Why's my soul any different? Trapped in this delicate skin I'd rather be made of titanium And free of all my sins I'd rather be a robot I'd rather be a robot I'd rather be a robot While I'm in this world I'd rather be a robot writing poems On a Sunday afternoon People are fragile And so full of fear Greed rage and envy And wonderin' why we're here Robots are humble An empathetic lot And they aren't constantly tortured By the instincts that we've got I'd rather be a robot...
9.
Christopher's mother lived Down by UCLA A Hollywood movie star Who had started to fade Chris played an old guitar And camped the sea The wild California coast With it's warm desert breeze Black Tar and China White From Downtown LA They captured my dearest friend And they dragged him away Canters The Pick Me Up And The Onyx Cafe We were so young and free How I wished you could stay
10.
Tiny sand dunes In the midday sun Tattooed young Dominicans A gentle breeze from New York City Salt and diesel fumes And life seemed not so out of reach That day on Rockaway Beach She seemed so serious And so debonnaire Salt water dryin' in her hair Her eyes closed tight against the glare Life's hard at 23 But life seemed not so out of reach That day on Rockaway Beach Candy wrappers In the sand Old men strollin' down the strand Airplanes off to distant lands Full of hopes and dreams And life seemed not so out of reach That day on Rockaway Beach
11.
It's 8 AM The winter sun is weak and it's gray and it's grim And the mud stained windows Don't let a whole lot in 13 strangers in a rundown yellow van And the boys' breath and the men's breath Both smell like last night's beer and vodka runs Like father like father Like son There's a quiet desperation In this academic suburb North of Kingdom Come But it's home The people's loss Is lying there beneath the permafrost Bankers and some clever oligarchs Prowl the Taiga like hungry Tiger sharks And the boys' breath....
12.
Fanny 03:43
First I rise Then I fall Seems like you don't want the love of this man At all And it's sure been a lonely time Right up to the time I met you And if you take a love like mine Be tender with my love You know how easy it is To hurt me Fanny be tender with my love 'Cause it's all that I've got And my love won't desert me You say to yourself, boy You're out of your brain You think I'm gonna stand here All night in the rain And it's the start of a love affair The moment when I first met you And if you want I'll take you there Be tender with my love You know how it is to break me....

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released February 23, 2016

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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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