Lou-Jean-Damien Jurado

[00:00.00] [00:15.12]Here in Rodriguez [00:17.42]The warm is a lover [00:20.07]A hand full of rainfall [00:23.32]A kiss from a stranger [00:26.11]Who shouts from the terrace [00:28.59]"You're all still in danger! [00:31.51]I was once you [00:34.48]Only here [00:35.97]Only younger" [00:37.36]I gave up my laughter [00:39.87]To pay off my ransom [00:42.63]As I strolled into diners [00:45.20]With skies of fluorescent [00:48.01]Married to pay phones [00:50.73]And numbers in stalls [00:53.24]My name is your husbands [00:55.69]His name a last call [01:01.12]Here in Apache [01:03.97]I sat in the front seat [01:06.41]Convincing the crosswords [01:09.34]To lay here in lowercase [01:12.22]Stop lighting fashion [01:14.64]And you in your overcoat [01:17.73]Talking of movies [01:20.45]And families not seen before [01:23.39]I was kept quiet [01:25.69]In the back of a trailer [01:28.46]Holding the tapes [01:30.83]Of songs never heard [01:33.76]Coughing up desert [01:36.36]He smiled then assured me [01:39.09]"All is not lost only hidden till later" [01:46.72]Here in Elaina [01:49.25]The skies are a firework show [01:53.69]No ticket is needed to enter here [01:58.14]Two step your way down [02:00.30]The street I first met you on [02:03.50]You and your radio [02:06.03]Me and my grand-mama [02:08.87]Dressed in her turquoise [02:11.40]And me with Loraine [02:14.30]Walking like ghosts in the frame [02:19.48]Blurring the photos [02:21.85]You shouted "forget it!" [02:24.36]All is not lost [02:26.64]If you stand still and wait for it [02:35.10]Night time Laredo [02:37.72]The stars are a stanza [02:40.43]The parking lot poems [02:43.33]I scrawled onto paper bags [02:46.16]This will go nowhere [02:48.76]Addressing the atmosphere [02:51.40]I was a nobody [02:54.06]Talking to tape machines [02:56.77]Recording the T.V. [02:58.99]And the sound of my voice [03:01.71]Playing it back at half speed [03:06.72]Pulling the bed sheets [03:09.59]And frames from the walls [03:12.35]Searching for peace [03:15.05]That was mine all along