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POLICEBOY IN PRAGUE

I can not speak a word
I’m lost & it’s cold outside
This cool cafe in Prague
I see a face that sank 10,000 ships

I’m tired & confused & I feel alone
Spend a lot of time thinking of my friends back home
But this angel here in his starched white shirt
and a police badge from behind the Iron Curtain drinking beer

He lights a cigarette
On fire as his eyes look down
He’s writing in a book
How does love work in this Kafka town?

Got a face like River Phoenix in the middle of a road
got a watercolor moustache, dirty hair like gold
I wanna ask a question, wanna take him out back
Wanna read what he is writing with old Mahler on the old soundtrack

I hear a violin
playing in the dark
pulling on my heart
in this strange town I am in
I dream about this boy
+ how he must have been
laying in my arms
like a violin

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from RICK BERLIN LIVE @ JACQUES, track released June 14, 1997
Rick Berlin LIVE@JACQUES (GarageDog) 1997. Recorded + mixed by Dan Cantor (w/ help from Jeff Berkowitz) over 5 consecutive Monday nights at Jacques Cabaret (the oldest drag bar in the country). Placed mikes over the pool table, in the main room, near the dressing room door. Who played: Tyson Montgomery Leonard (electric violin), Chris Mehl (harp), Jonah Sachs (cello), Dan Cantor (harp), Chet Cahill (accordion), Marnie Given (violin), Charles Isenberg (mc).

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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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