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Highway 101 Serenade
02:56
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(words and music by Frank Cruz)
Please tell my brother, I know he’s afraid
But growing up means you gotta change
Please tell my brother, I’ll miss him when I’m gone
But now I’m moving on
Please tell my mother, we’re all okay
And that I think about her most every day
Please tell my mother, I’ll miss her when I’m gone
But now I’m moving on
Please tell my father, now I understand
About all the ghosts that can haunt a man
Please tell my father that I love him more than he can know
But now I gotta go
Yes, I love you more than you can ever know
© 2008 Blueskies Longrides Publishing (ASCAP)
Frank Cruz: vocals, acoustic guitar, Hammond M3, keyboard, sleigh bells, samples
Chris Dixon: acoustic guitar, electric bass guitar, toy beats, feedback, ebow bass, samples
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2. |
Mean Gene
03:42
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(words by Frank Cruz, music by Frank Cruz and Christopher Dixon)
Well, I kicked and cussed and screamed. I must’ve gone a million miles
or more between that hard dirt floor and the California line.
God, I was just a kid myself, three children and a wife.
Working since my father died but working made me feel so alive
with all the boys, drinking after quitting time.
Shooting shit and telling lies about the money that we made
or the girls down at the café.
Boys I’m telling you,
I’m gonna make her mine someday.
Well, I kicked and cussed and fought like hell when she told me she was late,
but I loved her and she loved me too so I made it right that day.
I knew that Goshen’s not the kind of town that’s gonna give a man a break.
See, I watched it work my father to his grave and I knew that it’d treat me the same.
Me and all the boys, drinking after quitting time.
Shooting shit and telling lies about the plans that we had made.
But my boy is getting older and there’s another on the way.
It’s almost time.
I’m gonna bust this town someday.
Well, I kicked and cussed and screamed and prayed and we got across okay.
Still the desert’s not the kind of place you wanna visit in the day
but that old Dodge she held up nice. Gil knows we’re on the way,
he says the girls can sleep with Brenda in the room,
tomorrow we’ll find work,
tonight he’ll show me round Los Angeles. Introduce me
to all the boys, drinking after quitting time.
Shooting shit and telling lies about the movie stars they made.
Well, from the ocean to Ohio maybe men are all the same
but what do I know?
I’m gonna make her mine—
I’m gonna bust this town—
I’m just a kid myself anyway.
© 2008 Blueskies Longrides Publishing / DixNLix Music (ASCAP)
Frank Cruz: vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonica, shaker, handclaps
Chris Dixon: electric bass guitar, background vocals, shaker, handclaps
Danny Casentini: tambourine
Jodie Cruz: handclaps
Zachary Cruz: handclaps
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Furniture & Photographs
03:20
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(words and music by Frank Cruz)
Your father’s snapping Polaroids
Your mother’s smiling with her eyes
I got a sinking feeling
They haven’t done that in a while… in a while
Your father says, “So, how ya doing?”
I tell him I been fine
I see the ghosts of things that might have been
Dancing in your father’s eye… in his eyes
Cause I say, “Nothing ever changes”
But you say, “Nothing stays the same”
Sometimes it feels like not a goddamned day has passed
But then I take a look around your parents’ house and see the furniture is rearranged
© 2008 Blueskies Longrides Publishing (ASCAP)
Frank Cruz: vocals, acoustic guitar, Wurlitzer electric piano, glockenspiel
Christopher Dixon: electric guitars
John Snapp: electric bass guitar
Danny Casentini: drums
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4. |
We Have The Technology
04:13
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(words by Frank Cruz, music by Frank Cruz and Christopher Dixon)
They got cellular phones and aeroplanes
Automobiles and speed trains
A million little different ways
To win that war against distance
But I’ve been keeping my eye on television ads
And reading the billboards from subway tracks
But I’m afraid that they still don’t have a way to turn back time
So I’m settling for the bus line
And heading back home
Notebook computers and PDAs
Sidekicks where sidekicks leave notes all day
But I’ve noticed nobody writes with pens anymore these days
And that’s a shame
Cause I’ve been keeping my eye on television ads
And reading the billboards from subway tracks
But I’m afraid they still don’t have a way to let you inside my mind
So I’m settling for these clumsy lines
And heading back home
We got alarm clocks, a toaster and a coffee mate
There’s a Frigidaire and pots and pans, a microwave
Remember the night we drove to Mexico and got engaged?
It made your mother so goddamned mad
Cause she didn’t know we’d been keeping our eyes on the newspaper ads
Scanning the classifies from subway tracks
We never found the things we thought we just had to have
But either way…
We had those late morning breakfasts on secondhand plates
You played all the records we were into those days
See our choices were choices they were never mistakes
We found a place of our own
Cause I was never one to settle for things
(I wanted everything)
It’s time to go home
© 2008 Blueskies Longrides Publishing / DixNLix Music (ASCAP)
Frank Cruz: vocals, acoustic guitar, Hammond XK-1
Chris Dixon: electric guitar
John Snapp: electric bass guitar
Danny Casentini: drums and tambourine
Miles Cruz: talking
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Frank Cruz and the New Deal Oakland, California
Frank Cruz & the New Deal are Frank, Chris, Wes, and Ari. An indie folk rock band from Oakland, CA.
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