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Different songs play in different ways. Some you can play in the background and have a conversation, some play loud and fast and furious on an old Volvo car stereo. Some songs you hear over the speakers at a Target, under neon lights at some suburb mall in Texas.



Some songs need your full attention.



This is one of those songs.

What you really need to do is to is:

Make sure you have 5 minutes and 23 seconds to spare.

Put your best headphones on, turn it up loud.

Have a drink, have a smoke.

Close your eyes and LISTEN to the story.

It requires all of you, not your social media damaged self...the original,
full self.
All of you need to listen and feel this song, this story, this gathering of thoughts and words.

And please remember that this is a demo,not an official release a home recording, an improvised, lo-fi recording. It doesn't sound great, there's a ton of ping-pong, overdubbing and bouncing, there are mistakes and errors, but I kept them, because I like the honesty of that, the playfulness, the moment, such as it was...

lyrics

"Honestly Julie, you must’ve known early on,

we would be falling apart

Falling in love is the sweetest thing,baby

but eventually it breaks your heart

Julie, I know you’ll be better off when I’m gone

My father told me once, we come from Germany, I have never been

outside of these not so United States, and for sure never to Berlin...

Pictures and movies and magazines

rumors and hear say and old stories

I gotta leave, Julie..



I hitched a ride down to Houston where I got a room at a motel 6

Ran out of money soon and took a job

at a restaurant, waiting for tips

Slow, over time, I forgot about Germany,

but I never forgot about you, Julie



When you were a girl, I would take you to places, the aquarium and the zoo

Whatever I could fit in 48 hours,

every second weekend with you

Julie, I hope you grow up to be

a whole other person than me



It’s funny and sad how I turned out just like my dad

I lay awake sometimes at night,

wondering what kind of life we could’ve had...



Last night I dreamed about you as a princess

and I was a good hearted king

it felt like a peak into another dimension

if there is such a thing

Julie, I wonder where you are tonight

sometimes it feels like I’m losing my mind

Seeing myself scattered in this way...

I wanted to fly, but I always stayed

Julie, I hope you got away..."

credits

released March 26, 2021
All lyrics and arrangements etc by JD. Fridlund

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Citizens Band Orchestra Santa Fe, New Mexico

At the end of the last century (!!) I moved from Stockholm to Malmo, Sweden, where I started a band. I called it David And the Citizens Band Tranceiver, after a radio manual I found.Later shortened the name to David & the Citizens. We released 3 albums +a bunch of EP's,got lots of attention + a Grammy nomination. In 2009 I moved to the US. Didn't make music for 10 years... ... more

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