1. |
5400 Valentine Road
03:26
|
|||
5400 VALENTINE ROAD
Let’s drive too fast down streets we both know too well
Let’s tell ourselves that nothing ever dies, that we’ll always be the same
Let’s pick out names (I know, we barely know each others' names
But let’s dream of ever after)
Let’s open up! and show each other all the shit we hide so well from everyone else
Cause I don’t know if I could ever tell anyone, admit that I’m afraid
Let’s pick out names (I know we barely know each others' names
But still I wanna lie in fields of flame with you)
Cause I know that I’m already changing
I know that I’m already changing
I knew from the first moment I saw you
That everything had changed
Let’s drive too fast down streets that only ever seem to lead to our son’s grave
words & music by Frank Cruz
Frank Cruz - vocals, acoustic guitar, Hammond E-182 organ, sampling, drums & percussion
Chris Dixon - electric guitar, bass, background vocals
Produced and engineered by Robbie Kimzey, Chris Dixon, and Frank Cruz at home and at The Lab in Oakland, CA
Organ engineered by Frank Cruz at his mother in law’s house in Ventura, CA
Mixed by Willie Samuels at Studio Trilogy in San Francisco, CA
|
||||
2. |
No Name Waltz
07:18
|
|||
NO NAME WALTZ
I'm gonna sleep beneath the stars tonight and wonder where you are
Cause every time I hear the freight train cry I say, "I love you, too"
It don't feel much like a conversation anymore but I guess it has to do
I guess you can’t change the past
Sometimes I forget that, I think I gotta go back
To the way that we were before we heard the words
Those awful words
I'm gonna crash into the waves today, get swallowed by the sea
And if the ocean spits me out again I catch my breath, breathe out and in
I feel so much smaller but in the end, the problems are just the same
I guess you can’t change the past
Sometimes I forget that, I try so hard to go back
To the way that we were before we heard the words
Those awful words
I’m gonna drink till I don't feel no more, make love until I'm tired
Cause there's no such thing as moving on, there's only getting by
So I can't blame you for wanting me to try
words & music by Frank Cruz
Daniel Casentini - drums
Frank Cruz - vocals, keyboards, sampling, percussion, background vocals
Chris Dixon - electric guitar, bass, glockenspiel, sampling, percussion, background vocals
Robbie Kimzey - outro electric guitar
Produced and engineered by Robbie Kimzey, Chris Dixon, and Frank Cruz at home and at The Lab in Oakland, CA
Mixed by Willie Samuels at Nu-Tone Studios in Pittsburg, CA
|
||||
3. |
||||
JEREMY DREAMS OF TIME MACHINES
(for Barbara and Jeremy)
It was forty days and forty nights
I was wandering through the desert alone
This ain’t no fairy tale, I never heard the voice of god
But I’m not complaining cause I found my way home
But I was empty and I was restless
Didn’t know just where I belonged
Familiar things didn’t seem the same
With you gone
And I know I just got back
And so I hate to say, so long
But I gotta go back on the road
Find the place that we went wrong
It rained for forty days, it poured for forty nights
I thought the desert heat was bad but it’s got nothing on the cold
I saw the river rise, I met a whale, got ate alive
But by the time he spit me out I guess I missed that old rainbow
Cause I was empty and I was restless
Didn’t know just where I belonged
All the good things didn’t feel so good
With you gone
And I know I been making excuses now
For way, way, way too long
Could you forgive me
If I never come home?
Bridge:
Cause Jeremy dreams of time machines
(And baseball cards, and space wars, and his best friend’s eyes)
Jeremy dreams of time machines
(And race cars, computer games, and deep blue skies)
But me, I never dream, and if I do
I see earthquakes, and endless wars, and open graves, I don’t see you
So let’s just let him sleep, I know just what he means
He’s just trying to find a way to turn back time
words & music by Frank Cruz
Frank Cruz - vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, keyboards, glockenspiel, Zachary’s handmade rain stick, drums & percussion
Chris Dixon - electric guitar, bass, sampling, bowed cymbal, background vocals
Joel Levin - pedal steel
Khalil Sullivan - harmonium
Produced and engineered by Robbie Kimzey, Chris Dixon, and Frank Cruz at home and at The Lab in Oakland, CA
Pedal steel engineered by Frank Cruz at Joel’s house in Ventura, CA
Mixed by Willie Samuels at Nu-Tone Studios in Pittsburg, CA
|
||||
4. |
Amber's High Wire Blues
04:16
|
|||
AMBER'S HIGH WIRE BLUES
She said, “I am an acrobat
Walking around on a high wire act
Stumbling somewhere between the present and the past”
She said, “I know there’s no going back
With the first goddamned step you’re committed to act
It don’t seem to me that the past stays past
So I swear the distance from here to there ain’t so vast”
So if you’re out there on the ropes
And it feels like a long way to go
And the men you meet keep on buying drinks
To keep themselves from feeling anything
When you’re out there on the ropes
We all know you really just wanna go home
But you smile polite and try to say something nice
And wait for the morning to see you home
I said, “I ain’t ever been an acrobat
Cause I’m afraid of the heights on the high wire act
But I know how it feels when it all gets too real
So you try to move forward cause you know there’s no going back”
Cause when I’m out there on the road
And it feels like a long way to go
And the friends that I meet keep on pouring me drinks
Cause they know that I remember everything
So I’m out there on the road
And I don’t know which way to go home
So I smile polite, try not to fuck up their night
And wait for the Lord to take me home
words & music by Frank Cruz
Frank Cruz - vocals and acoustic guitar
Lewis Patzner - cello
Produced and engineered by Frank Cruz and home in Oakland, CA
Strings engineered by Scott Goodrich at Nu-Tone Studios in Pittsburg, CA
Mixed by Scott Goodrich at Nu-Tone Studios in Pittsburg, CA
|
||||
5. |
Hereafter
03:24
|
|||
HEREAFTER
I gotta try a little harder
And get myself together
“Be thankful for things I have”
Cause is it here, hereafter
I can put it back together?
I’ll finally get the answer
I waited for so long
We gotta try a little harder
Do your best to remember
A time we didn’t always have to try so goddamned hard
Is it here, hereafter
We can put it back together?
We’ll finally see our sunshine
We’ll forget it ever rained
Till then I try to remember to breathe
I block out the evidence this don’t mean a thing
Cause I know I can’t pretend it’s any worse for me
Sick of waiting for Jesus to speak to me
I gotta try a little harder
And get myself together
“Be thankful for things I have”
words & music by Frank Cruz
Daniel Casentini - drums
Frank Cruz - vocals, acoustic guitars, tremolo guitar, Wurlitzer electric piano, percussion
Chris Dixon - electric guitar, background vocals
Michael Musumeci - keyboard
Anton Patzner - violin
John Snapp - bass
Produced by Frank Cruz, Chris Dixon, and Scott Goodrich
Engineered by Scott Goodrich at Nu-Tone Studios in Pittsburg, CA
Keyboard engineered by Michael Musumeci at his house in Pittsburg, CA
Mixed by Scott Goodrich at Nu-Tone Studios in Pittsburg, CA
|
||||
6. |
Ballad for a Friend
03:09
|
|||
BALLAD FOR A FRIEND
Sad I’m a-sittin’ on the railroad track
Watchin’ that old smokestack
Train is a-leavin’ but it won’t be back
Years ago we hung around
Watchin’ trains roll through the town
Now that train is a-graveyard bound
Where we go up in that North Country
Lakes and streams and mines so free
I had no better friend than he
Something happened to him that day
I thought I heard a stranger say
I hung my head and stole away
A diesel truck was rollin’ slow
Pullin’ down a heavy load
It left him on a Utah road
They carried him back to his home town
His mother cried, his sister moaned
Listenin’ to them church bells tone
words & music by Bob Dylan
Copyright © 1962, 1965 MCA, Renewed 1990, 1993 Songs of Universal, Inc. (BMI). All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Frank Cruz - vocals, acoustic guitar
Chris Dixon - acoustic slide guitar
Produced by Robbie Kimzey, Chris Dixon, and Frank Cruz
Engineered by Robbie Kimzey at home in Oakland, CA
Mixed by Willie Samuels at Studio Trilogy in San Francisco, CA
|
||||
7. |
This Is Just to Say
04:00
|
|||
THIS IS JUST TO SAY
Your baby brother’s not a baby anymore
Man, he’s growing like a weed
He’s asking questions I can’t answer
So I just tell him how we used to be
And your momma’s getting older
But she’s aging gracefully
She’s talking about another baby
She’s finding reasons to believe
And me, I’m writing you this letter
Between faith and misery
Man, I get lonesome here without you
Between what is and what ought to be
And me, I’m trying hard to get myself together
I been praying for peace
To some god I don’t believe in anyways
But desperate men do desperate things
And now the bottle’s almost empty
So I guess I’ll get to sleep
But right before I close my eyes I see you suddenly alive
I linger in-between to watch the way you used to be
words by Frank Cruz
music by Frank Cruz and Chris Dixon
Frank Cruz - vocals, acoustic guitar, keyboards, AM hand-cranked radio, glockenspiel, drums & percussion
Chris Dixon - vocals, electric guitars, samples & MIDI programming
Produced by Chris Dixon and Frank Cruz
Engineered by Scott Goodrich at Nu-Tone Studios, Pittsburg, CA
Additional engineering by Chris Dixon and Frank Cruz at home and at The Lab in Oakland, CA
Mixed by Scott Goodrich at Nu-Tone Studios in Pittsburg, CA
|
||||
8. |
||||
AN ATLAS OF THE DIFFICULT WORLD
Took a plane ride to London
Hopped a train to Italy
Caught a speed boat and sailed off to sea
I saw the temples of Athens
The lights of Paris
Saw some sunsets you would not believe
I ordered whiskey and water
I drank tonic and gin
In every town, behind the bar, I found a friend
I stayed up till the morning
Made my days into nights
Anything that was wrong the maid made all right
I tried to burn myself out
Like a moth to the flame
But every wonder I saw said your name
So I guess I’ll stop running
Try to stay in one place
I’ll probably never stop seeing your face
I said, there’s no use in running
Besides where would I go?
So I’m learning to live with your ghost
words & music by Frank Cruz
Frank Cruz - vocals, piano
Chris Dixon - upright bass, electric guitars, background vocals
James Leste - drums
Joel Levin - harmonica
Produced by Chris Dugan, Chris Dixon, and Frank Cruz
Engineered and mixed by Chris Dugan at Jingletown Recording in Oakland, CA
Harmonica engineered by Joel Levin at his house in Ventura, CA
|
||||
9. |
||||
HEREAFTER
I gotta try a little harder
And get myself together
“Be thankful for things I have”
Cause is it here, hereafter
I can put it back together?
I’ll finally get the answer
I waited for so long
We gotta try a little harder
Do your best to remember
A time we didn’t always have to try so goddamned hard
Is it here, hereafter
We can put it back together?
We’ll finally see our sunshine
We’ll forget it ever rained
Till then I try to remember to breathe
I block out the evidence this don’t mean a thing
Cause I know I can’t pretend it’s any worse for me
Sick of waiting for Jesus to speak to me
I gotta try a little harder
And get myself together
“Be thankful for things I have”
words & music by Frank Cruz
Produced by La Practica De Familia at home in Oakland, CA
Sequencing and MIDI programming by La Practica De Familia
Mixed by Scott Goodrich at Nu-Tone Studios in Pittsburg, CA
credits
|
Frank Cruz and the New Deal Sunnyvale, California
Frank Cruz & the New Deal are Frank, Chris, Ari, and Michael. An indie folk-rock band scattered far and wide across these United States of America. The rumors of our death have been greatly exaggerated. #fcndlp3 is, indeed, coming soon…
Contact Frank Cruz and the New Deal
Streaming and Download help
Frank Cruz and the New Deal recommends:
If you like Frank Cruz and the New Deal, you may also like:
Bandcamp Daily your guide to the world of Bandcamp