- 17
Take me to your house
And show me to all your family
I don't care about
The fool that it makes me seem
'cause I know that you're 17
And I'm just an aging dandy
The world is light and dark
And we live in between
- 1983
Summer days 15 years old
Rodney’s on the radio
The RTD and a pack of cloves
Oh Oh oo Oh oo Oh Oh Oh
And girls in death rock pantyhose
Junes are cloudy in L.A.
All the city’s shades of gray
- 21st Century Girl
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
- 3Jane
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, you're it for me
Hot summer nights outside the New Beverly
Old Chevy Nova drives
- Aging Queens
Aging queens with matching dogs
And call girls in strangers’ cars
And bullies lining up to play
Kick the Little Quiet Boy
Surely the way this world was meant to be
Still, it’s a little painful here for me
- Air mail
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
- Anabel
I met a girl last summer
Washed up on some foreign shore
She was young and delightful
Like others that I’ve known before
But the hair on my head’s a little whiter now
And when it rains my knees get sore
We went for walks on the seaside
- Anabel2
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
- Aquamarine
Aquamarine
Came from a town near Beijing
Sometimes in spring
The fruit trees smelled like ice cream
Aqua
Tell me that life is just a dream
Aqua
- Baby Blue
I saw you walkin’ in the rain
All those many years ago
You looked a bit like Tom Verlaine
I saw him once outside a show
Ooooo Baby Blue
Ooooo I just can’t get over you
- Barcelona
Al'Istanbul l'any pasat
Vaig somiar amb Montserrat
Va caura un meteorit
Mol brilliant al eel de la nit
A la Barcelona
La meva Barcelona
A la Barcelona
- Blue Candles
Blue candles
At noon
Burn with a light
That makes me think of you
You went away too soon
The evening
We met
- Bosphorus
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
- Caldo de Cana
Agua de coco
Caldo de cana
Dentes de oro
Confusao urbana
The storm clouds roll in
Set me free Fortuna
It’s late and I can’t find my friends
Caldo de cana
- casa batllo
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
- Caspian sea
Along the shore
Of the Caspian Sea
I worked a job
For the oil industry
A Texas boy
So far away from home
Azerbaijan
Can really make you feel alone
- Dark Eyes
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Lay down over here, Pal
It seems it's getting late
Look up in the sky
Wild parrots in L.A.
The sun is coming up soon
It's time to go to sleep
- Deng Xiaoping
Deng Xiaoping
A true Asada king
Lay dying in Shanghai
A comet tracing through the sky
Chairman Mao
Heard thunder in the dawn
The old guard’s come and gone
And underneath our world’s a drone
- Foreign Disaster Days
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
- From Vladivostok
A rainy night in June
Girl from Vladivostok’s in her room (oh-oh)
She’s layin’ on the bed
Chatting on her laptop with her friends (oh-oh)
And through the open window there’s a breeze
And fog rollin’ off the sea (oh-oh)
Mercury and starfish in the bay
- Girl from Vladivostok
Girl From Vladivostok
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
- Green Eyed Taxi
Life it slips right by you
Your dreams all left behind you
It’s cold and rain is falling
A lonely day is turning
O-o-o-oh, Green-eyed taxi rescue me
O-o-o-oh, Cause I’m half a man I used to be
O-o-o-oh, All of the loves I threw away
- High Life
High life
Sing me a sweet song
You used
To think I was grand
Downtown
Chelsea and Soho
I held
The world in my hand
- Hong Kong Cafe
Last night I had a dream
That you were done with me
The sparkle in your eyes
Had all but gone
You told me 'bout a guy
That you chanced to meet on a crowded street
Who made you feel alive
Made you feel whole
- Hoover st
Hoover Street, downtown L.A.
There’s an alley where you used to play
You bounced a basketball alone
While your father fought his wife at home
You dreamed about him all your life
Now you’re cryin’ in your sleep at night
The world’s so big you feel so small
- Hoover St.
Hoover Street, downtown L.A.
There’s an alley where you used to play
You bounced a basketball alone
While your father fought his wife at home
You dreamed about him all your life
Now you’re cryin’ in your sleep at night
The world’s so big you feel so small
- Jesse James
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
- Jesse James.
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
- Lagos Slums
He's had bicycles and sons
He's had salted fish and dark rum
Now his days are almost done
In the Lagos slums
He was a farmer for a while
Growin' plantains by the coastline
And some said he had a smile
- LAX
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
- Lazy, Flawed and Hopeless
Lunch special
Koreatown
Cuban fried bananas
Lazy, flawed & hopeless
All our cars
Are rusted through
TV’s in the garbage
- Londres
Juan says she's a funny kind of girl
Who sits on rooftops to escape the world
She smokes her cigarettes and keeps a journal
Dreaming of the day she'll fly to Londres
She lives with her folks in East L.A.
She goes up to Hollywood to hear bands play
She listens to Smiths cassettes and
- Love Is The Answer
He smacked her 'round one last time Sunday
She called her friend, said let's run away
Rooftop sunrise
Sweet 16
Her cigarettes and her dreams
La la la la la la la la love is the answer
- Madalena
Walking through the streets of Amsterdam
Half a pack of kreteks in my hand
The rain smells like a woman
That I knew long ago
And I hope she’s happy
Hope she’s doin’ grand
The cyclones never seem to get this far
- Magura
Take me to Magura
To while the years away
The tinkling of the cowbells
And smells of drying hay
The rainfall in the mountains
Will wash away my fears
And all the foolish things
That I've done throughout the years
- Marshrutka Girl
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
- Morning Light
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
- Motel Room
Night is here in my veins
I’m losing again
And not much remains
Come
Lay down next to me
I’ll tell you a bit
Of who I used to be
- Night train to Moscow
Night Train to Moscow
Say good bye to the Petersburg sun
The half light of winter afternoons long gone
Pancakes and mushrooms
Tea with the hookers at dawn
The TV is warning of a coming storm
Come lay with me
- Old Folks
So far away, so like a dream
A cup of tea with powdered cream
Or comet dust and subway steam
Or 3 kilos of mangosteen
Ayaaah ayaaah mangosteen
An airport lounge in Amsterdam
A summer rainfall in Japan
- Peach Tree
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
- Pillow From Home
Late night
All alone
Just sitting in my hotel room
Wishing I was back at home
- Queenie
When I see
My life of sin
All the creeps
That I have been
Makes me wonder why
You stayed
You’re my Queen
Of Summer Rain
- Rather stay home
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
- Robot
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
- Sewers of Bangkok
Sewers of Bangkok
That’s what they call me
From the jungle towns
To the slums of the city
- Shioda
The world can fall apart outside my door
I don’t care no more
The air-raid siren sings the song of war
I don’t care no more
Salt and cherry blossom tea
Has the flavor of the sea
- Single Apartment
Jean was a heartbreaker in her day
Carefree and dancing the night away
Then she turned 41 oh oh oh
Had her moment in the sun oh oh oh
Now she eats all alone
And talks to her best friend on the phone
She wakes up at 6:30 everyday
- Some Days
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Перевод.
Бывают дни,
Когда тяжело увидеть магию мира.
Ошибки
Жизни, полной алкоголя и погонь за девушками.
- Star Called Sun
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
- Super Gizi
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
- Teenage Summer Days
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
- The clouds in Camarillo
You were born in '67 about 9 o'clock at night
A couple of years before I lost control and ended up inside
The clouds in Camarillo
Shimmer with the lights, that's so unreal
Now I fear the stories that they told me
Of how I hurt my baby, must be somehow true.
- Ugly Babylon
The oil wells and the call girls
Work all night long
Down in the ugly Babylon
Gone are the grandmas, poets
And baker’s sons
Down in the ugly Babylon
- Up All Night
Up All Night
I was up all night
Wonderin’ if I’ll ever amount to anything
In this life
‘Cause now I’m not so young
Nothing feels right
- Voce
Cumulonimbus forms
The mornings down here are warm
The smuggler has his charm
Smoking in the dawn
Under the Arctic sun
The submarines make their runs
The high-flying planes look on
- Xanax And Three Hours Of TV
In this land of plenty
What happened to our dreams
Can’t even find a mangosteen
Can’t find an e.e. cummings
Or a Martin Luther King
Just online porn & SUVs
I don’t care much anymore
- Your Motion Says
Your motion says
You're in the mood
But what you want
Is far away
- На вершине мира
You were born in ’67
about 9 o’clock at night
Нам так светло. Вечер. Май.
По воде танцуем.
A couple years before I lost control
and ended up inside.
- На вершину Мира
You were born in ’67
about 9 o’clock at night
Нам так светло. Вечер. Май.
По воде танцуем.
A couple years before I lost control
and ended up inside.