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ד​ו​י​ד ב​ר​ו​ז​ה - ר​ח​ו​ב ש​נ​י // David Broza - Second Street

by David Broza

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Written By: David Broza & Terry Cox מילים ולחן: דויד ברוזה וטרי קוקס
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You were such a small girl, when I used to stay In the dirt yards outside the factory I remember how we managed to sway In the hot shade of the concrete quay Where a rusted freighter pulled at its stays In the dirty backwater we hoped would take us away Chorus: I'm sorry for our innocence But when I was a younger man I tried to be a kinder man A gentle man I tried to be a man of consequence A man of significance But when I left home, I left forever And nothing can change what chance has severed Can you still hear the bands that played in the square The steel drums, the starving dogs And the old women we'd see there? Those songs of future tense, that black beat of despair We were so unaware Of the empty words tossed in disrepair In the blasted air Chorus I remember late winter when the wind off the water Lifted your hair like a curtain for stars And I remember later summer, when the shouts in the night Lit up the hills, the harbor and bars With the glow of money not earned, and lessons not learned The glow of the badly burned By the politics of no return
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The sun turned red that day The day you turned and walked away The day my heart bled a bitter river of tears You stood there straight and strong Like a judge righting a wrong And you said the words I could not bear to hear And with every word you spoke Something fragile in me broke Don't know till there's no hope how some Things matter They say in time things pass But when something hits that hard, that fast A heart made of glass is bound to shatter The winds of change have blown The rivers have overflown The ceiling of my sky has descended Like a bolt out of the blue Time can rip through you And leave a tear that may never be mended You said from where you stood You tried every way you could To make me understand the things you needed Guess I didn't see the signs I may have drawn too many lines It's so easy to let the hard things go unheeded And now I count up all our years As I cry these countless tears For the day that changed the face of my tomorrow I can barely long For a brighter, braver dawn As I lay drowning in the well of my sorrow Is there no warmth in the sun When it shines on just one? Is there nowhere a comforting shoulder? Will the world stay this dark? Is there no fire in this spark? Will the night's heartless arms just get colder? The winds of change have blown The rivers have overflown The ceiling of my sky has descended Like a bolt out of the blue Time will rip through you And leave a tear that may never, oh can in ever be mended? Tell me, can it be mended?
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All night the cafes stay open And all night the laughter is broken By sirens and light. Tonight Something's burning inside me There's ash in the air Footsteps on the stairs Something's burning inside me tonight Chorus: And when it all comes apart I'll meet you In the cathedral On the dark street of the heart All day the markets are alive With rumors and lies And money passes by Like conversations overheard, like starving birds In the empty embassies by the park And I thought I saw you today A figure in the crowd, sliding away In the heat and the dust of the day Tell me what to believe, who to deceive When I look at my eyes in the mirror Tell me what to say as I stand in the shade Of a broken balcony A car door slams And I don't understand Where you are anymore
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Let me take you back again To Second Street in Spring There is a softness in the air That only time can bring Flowers line the balconies And windows open wide She is waiting there for me As darkness creeps inside Chorus: She was just a girl I knew A long long time ago And why I let walk away I don't thing I'll ever know And she will let me hold her there While the world outside goes dim And even though I cannot stay She always takes me in But since our lives will not let go Our whispers have to end Though I still see her walk from me As memory descends Chorus Now Second Street's just another street In a blasted part of town It's a street where shadows meet And the dark competes But lovers can't be found No lovers can't be found
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Macha 04:54
She waves away anything suspicious And doesn't linger or hesitate Goes where she wants when she wishes Expectations hold no weight Macha Walking down the street That's the Macha See those dancing feet That's the Macha Ripping through the heat That's the Macha Tearing up every beat That's the Macha She casts a net of the senses That no one can escape Has given up on all pretenses That gives tomorrow a shape Macha She needs a match for her passion That won't limit her control Love can never be rationed Surrounded the body fill the soul Macha
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I wore a flight jacket once Torn open all one winter 'Cause nothing in New York City Not the trucks I unloaded Or the streets they slammed down Was gonna touch me I though that if I did one or two things right I might rise above all that business The way each morning While I stamped my feet In the frozen Sea line Freight Yard As sheets of light Rose above the broken terminals of Lower East Side Sheets of light Rose above the broken terminals of Lower East Side Chorus: But it didn't take long For my hands to clench on their own No it didn't take long For the wind and the light To blow out Along the Hudson I thought on days There wasn't any work If I had walked Battery Park long enough Watching two rivers turn Turn into each other I might understand What was ahead Chorus And I thought The Spanish I heard spoken all night Was just a song a city sang to itself To soothe the sleep of a girl Beside me And I remembered A story about an old man who lies Besides a sleeping girl And listens to the dry rustle of his heart Chorus I wore a flight jacked once Torn open all one winter 'Cause nothing in New York City Not the trucks I unloaded Or the streets they slammed down Was gonna touch me (adapted from 'Amnesty')
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Of course tonight the thoughts Are on the land of the rising sun December 7th, 1941 One never knows what's next Blonds, redheads, brunettes War! Wow!! This gives me a want to go to mother feeling I don't want to hold and have you now But then you can't always have your own way Chorus: And I miss you and with the world as it is My longing for you is even greater I miss you and with the world as it is The longing for you is even greater Last night I knocked myself out With the good old… guess what, I tried to write to you, but then there's no way I get so outspoken when I'm drunk Besides, I want to have something to say When you lay your head on me My friend, Tom, is laughing 'cause I'm writing again But then he turn of events makes me scared Chorus Now it's Sunday night December 7th, 9:15 Tell me where's my love How does she feel? Thinking of me? I was still in bed Tom was up reading when the radio said Bombs, Japan, Pearl Harbor He turned and said, "Now what they want to say A think like that for?" My head was reeling I didn't get it, but those words will never fade I want to turn to you and hold you Until this whole thing is over and done.
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Riding car top down Riding car top down All steel and song I am the man and the boy you knew And I'm dreaming of riding car top down and kissing you Arizona sunsets are a dime a dozen Hard times die there where the boys are men Women ride their horses anywhere they want to Stars pack a spark like pins in the sky Chorus Riding through the canyon, up onto the mountain I ride through the night and the night is you Every time you touch me, I feel those tears inside me All falling down into your hand Kissing you The stars rise up Kissing you the night lights up Kissing you It won't calm down
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In Snow 05:11
With the window sitting with you And with glass, with air to see with There I came with you to be with Asking if and ever were And with snow, with wet and moving There we brought the afternoon in Soon with gin we poured the ache down Soon we felt the air we moved with Now with snow and later raining We went out and moved the walking And in snow resumed the drifting Of the past that we'd been talking I was cold and you were raining I had stayed while you went leaving And the life that I was walking Turned to air, and then went dark You now mentioned all your leaving (now that afternoon had left us) And you rained with need and grieving For that staring boy you left I recalled the boy who saw you As you moved through girl, through bleeding And I mentioned movements boyward Where in snow we'd lain all needing We lie down, within this window And in snow, in rain and moving We give back our time it's longing Over field and snow and leaving
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The art of losing isn't hard to master So many things seem filled with intent to be lost The art of losing isn't too hard to master Their loss is no disaster Lose something every day Accept the fluster of lost door keys Accept the hour badly spent Lose something faster and farther Lose the days content Lose the year's lament Chorus Lose something deep in your heart A house, a city, a continent Some realms, two rivers, names of places you went Lose ground where your feet once stood firm Lose what falls in the sky Lose your prayer in reply Chorus Even losing you, I shan't deny It's evident, the art of losing isn't too hard to master Though it may look, say it, Look like disaster
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Chileno Boys 06:13
The Chileno Boys Pull their fish by the fins In the dirt and they sing About old times and the women they will know Mariquita and Caras The girls in their dreams, of when they'll be men Not different, not different they say Not different from you The Chileno Boys Pull their feet by the strings In the dirt they sing Confusing themselves in the inside tangled jungle Of sons and fathers Themselves lost halfway into the years That have been and will be long But… Not different, not different they say Not different from you Fish they sell What they catch What they can What they hold in their arms For the day Sons and fathers Of the sea A world in which just to walk You must run So they sell What they catch What they hold in their arms For the day Not different, not different they say Not different from you

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released January 1, 1994

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David Broza Israel

Israeli superstar David Broza has been considered one of the most dynamic and vibrant performers in the singer/songwriter world.
His charismatic and energetic performances have brought to worldwide audiences, a fusion of the three different countries in which he was raised: Israel, Spain, and England.
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