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MARTINIS

from DEMOS by Rick Berlin

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I have a photo of my Mom n Dad at the Stork Club, but even more memorable to me was Jean Paul Sartre w Simone De Beauvoir hanging out in Paris. This song is a nostalgia for something of which I was not a part.

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MARTINIS

i like the smoke
i like the martinis
at the stork club
in the 40’s
before the war
killed a generation
& tried t save a nation
from itself….

i like the smoke
i like the martinis
jean-paul & simone
at a table in paree
before Hell broke loose
& art really mattered
the whole world was in tatters
& insane

whistle a tune
kick a can down the road
it’s not what ya know
it’s what yr feeling

i like the smoke
i like the martinis
the fast cars & the hot bars
before the bomb
fell
& Hiroshima looked like Mars
& we just lost FDR
& Hollywood was bizarre

whistle a tune
kick a can down the road
it’s not what ya know
it’s what yr feeling

i like the smoke
i like the martinis
the haze of all things past
a fiction that can’t last
much longer…

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from DEMOS, released November 18, 2012
GBand shitty selfie

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Rick Berlin (now playing w/ THE NICKEL & DIME BAND) Jamaica Plain

A giant on the Boston music scene. His colorful songwriting + strong stage presence have influenced countless other artists since the early 1970s. He continues to make music w/ intelligence + integrity, building an international reputation around his knotty, singular piano playing, straight-from-the-heart singing and a style of character-based songwriting that's drawn comparisons to Waits + Cohen ... more

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