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Welcome to Brazzaville 2

by BRAZZAVILLE

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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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Jesse James 03:46
When he was runnin’ from the cops He said, “Baby, I’m just 19 I’m as sexy as a ballerina in a magazine Give me danger and a gun You know I ain’t afraid of pain I don’t wanna live your life I wanna die like Jesse James I wanna die like Jesse James… “I grew up in a little trailer On the edge of town My daddy used to beat me raw He used to beat me down And one thing that I learned When I was barely 17 Was how to kill a full-grown man When he was half asleep ‘cause I wanna die like Jesse James… “So now I’m runnin’ from the cops And Baby, I’m just 19 I’m as sexy as a ballerina on a TV screen And I’m happy as a newborn baby When he sees his mom And I’m grateful to the bullet That’s just about to take me home
3.
Anabel2 03:06
Last night meant so much to me Downtown by the crumbling sea wall The first kiss took me back to 1983 Laid out with the thrill of it all Anabel Airports feel like home to me Glass walls looking out at the planes Food courts and police controls A soft voice coming though the PA Anabel Anabel Light blue walls in cheap hotels Up here at 30,000 feet Above all the suffering and pain Hot tea and an inflight magazine An old boy in a shiny new plane Anabel
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Bosphorus 03:18
She was married to the Bosphorus She threw her ring in then she blew a kiss To the Ottomans and Byzantines Lying beneath the sea She wore a pink and yellow summer dress She kept her hair just like a poetess She traveled all the way to Germany The trains and the cold, dark sea The amber glow of a morning cigarette On the Istiklal Cadessi The vapor trails and the tiny minerettes All the domes in silhouette Ahhhhh Ahhhh Ahhhh…..
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Peach Tree 02:39
A thought occurred to me Lying underneath a peach tree A moment in the sun Our funny little lives are so brief Our frail little bones We’re here and then we’re gone Sometimes the lonely days Turn into the lonely decades Old ladies on their own The world they knew has drifted away Like little puffs of smoke We’re here and then we’re gone
6.
Late night All alone Just sitting in my hotel room Wishing I was back at home A long flight Halfway around the globe This life at 30,000 feet Well it’s starting to take it’s toll I got my pillow from home Here on the 33rd floor And I loaded all your photographs Into my mobile phone But they only made me miss you more I got my beat up guitar And my pocket Moleskine I packed my echinacea drops And all my speaker tapes ‘Cause I’m out here on the road again I’m out here on the road again A strange light Warms my soul When I travel to a distant place To play a little rock and roll But someday Just you and me We’ll be gazing at a setting sun In a little garden by the sea
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LAX 03:24
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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A rainy night in June The girl from Vladivostok’s in her room She’s layin’ on the bed Chatting on her laptop with her friends And through the open window There’s a breeze And fog rollin’ off the sea Mercury and starfish in the bay A rusty ship sails away With a devushka from Vladivostok Our funny little lives We show up here with stardust in our eyes You get here on a train It takes about a week but that’s OK And through the open window There’s a breeze And fog rollin’ off the sea Mercury and starfish in the bay A rusty ship sails away With a devushka from Vladivostok
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Barcelona 04:31
A l’Istanbul l’any pasat Vaig somiar amb Montserrat Va caura un meteorit Mol brilliant al cel de la nit A la Barcelona La meva Barcelona A la Barcelona Estimada Barcelona Va vola per sobre l’Eixample Cuitadella i carrer Ample Els esglesias i els mercats I les hortes del Llobregat A la Barcelona… Va vola per sobre els Catalans i també sobre els inmigrants Els okupas i funcionaris i la gent de tots els barris
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Crisscrossed the country in a van A young and carefree rock and roll band Tearing up the open road Success came like an ice cold hand 5 star hotels by the sand And suddenly you’re getting old And I’d rather stay home I’d rather stay home ‘Cause one thing I know We all leave this old world alone And why there’s still time Don’t wanna be a rolling stone And I’d rather stay home I’d rather stay home 10,000 flights to different lands And your kids are growing up without their dad They’re wondering why you can’t stay home Success came like an ice cold hand 5 star hotels by the sand And suddenly you’re getting old
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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
12.
Down on Pico and Fedora Back in 1983 All the cholos on the corner Hid their pistols in the trees El Funny Clown lived off of Sunset On a street called Benton Way There were blood satins on the sidewalk But the rain washed them away On the mean streets of L.A. All those teenage summer days We took the bus way down to Venice Went bodysurfing in the waves Staring out at the horizon On those teenage summer days On the mean streets of L.A. All those teenage summer days My daddy was a trucker Hauling freight 12 hours a day Sometimes he’d take me down to Vernon Or the shipyards in South Bay On those teenage summer days On the mean streets of L.A.
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14.
3Jane 04:14
3Jane, You’re my Queen Lounging around With a W magazine No doubt Your the best Looking so good in 10 euro summer dress 3Jane 3Jane, you’re it for me Hot summer nights outside the New Beverly Old Chevy Nova drives Under the stars, way up the 395 3Jane 3Jane It’s hard to see But things in the world are just as their meant to be We’re born and die alone Surrounded by stars, we’re never away from home.
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I’m afraid of you You make life seem brand new We stay up late at night Forget the world outside And it’s been a long time It’s been a long time Since I’ve seen the morning light It’s been a long time It’s been a long time And that’s alright (2x) You read you poetry And pour me cups of tea And in the candle light I’m lost inside your eyes And it’s been a long time….. Sometimes I feel all alone With millions of folks around me But I know that I’ve got a home Beyond the dark clouds above me
16.
Life It slips right by you Your dreams All left behind you It's cold And rain is falling A lonely Day is dawning oh oh oh oh Green eyed taxi rescue me oh oh oh oh Cause I'm half the man I used to be oh oh oh oh All of the loves I threw away oh oh oh oh And now my skies are turning gray Love The great surrender Her arms So warm and tender The high life That you followed Has left you Sad and hollow
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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
18.
Near a star called Sun It was there that my mom came undone Sounds of a summer parade 90.5 in the shade She drifted off on the 4th of July A holiday look in her eyes Said goodbye to a lifetime of pain She died in a mid-summer rain She said There’s one million stars For every little grain of sand down there She floated up like a rocket in space The misery gone from her face Flying through comets and stars Out past the canyons on Mars She saw the future and she saw the past She said, don’t worry, it’s not meant to last Everything’s always OK Even the worst of your days There’s one million stars… So now she’s there when I look at the sky Or when I drink whisky or wine Or when I feel frightened at night Or days when I’m sick of my life She says, son it’ll all be alright Everything’s already fine If only you knew what I’ve seen You’d never feel frightened again
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Praskovia 03:52
He's never been up this high Stars fill the bright, black sky A Soviet pilot's solo flight Sun shining in the dark While back in Filevsky Park His wife and his little boy feed meadow larks Young Ivan Koroloev Stares at the stars above And down at the little world With the ones he loves He's never been up this high Stars fill the bright, black sky A Soviet pilot's solo flight Praskovia Mikhailovna

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Welcome to Brazzaville 2 features songs from the last 4 studio albums. We had a vote on our website and the fans got to choose the songs!

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released October 11, 2012

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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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