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Old Man Dub

from Somnambulista by BRAZZAVILLE

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The idea for this song came from something I saw when I was about 12 years old. My father and I had gone to the movies at a place on Western and Clinton. The police were raiding some kind of a massage parlor next door. They has a drunk businessman against the wall. He reached for his glasses and the police got angry and threw them to the ground and smashed their lenses.
The idea for the music came from a simple pattern that I began playing on a strange, marima-like thing. You can hear it at the beginning of the track.

lyrics

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

credits

from Somnambulista, released March 11, 2000
David Brown – vox
David Ralicke – trombone
Mike Bolger – trumpet
Mike Boito – organ
Phil Chen – bass, guitar
Danny Frankel – percussion
Michael Rozon – drums

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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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