Name: 3rd and Broadway
Duration: P00H03M52S
Description: The idea for the music in this song came from an idea that David Ralicke had called Day of Brazza. It's the keyboard hook you can hear in the track. I later wrote a kind of end of the world, wrong side of the tracks story for it.

3rd and Broadway

from Somnambulista by BRAZZAVILLE

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The idea for the music in this song came from an idea that David Ralicke had called Day of Brazza. It's the keyboard hook you can hear in the track. I later wrote a kind of end of the world, wrong side of the tracks story for it.

lyrics

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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from Somnambulista, released March 11, 2000
David Brown – vox, guitar
Greco Rossetti – programming, keyboard
DJ Swamp – scratching
Johari Funches-Penny – vox
Glenys Rogers – vox

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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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