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Close Your Eyes and Dream of Flowers (feat. Juan Betancourt Garcia)

from 1975 by No-No Boy

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lyrics

Imagine taking a tanker ship
Then walking all of Mexico
I know some people who the blues won’t quit
Imagine no end to a road

They’re saying out in El Paso
The prisons filled up to the brim
Now they’re sticking them in cages
Just sweep it all beneath the bridge

And you might want to worry
And you might want to come down
And you might need to hurry
Judging from this town

Take a jump shot in Laredo
Feel some special kind of weird
Purgatory outlet mall implode
Cry some special kind of tears

Living in between the water
Just close your eyes and dream of flowers
So says a mother to a daughter
Wasting in line for 40 hours

And you might want to worry
And you might want to come down
And you might need to hurry
Judging from this town

En la frontera te das cuenta que la historia
tiende a repetirse:
Un niño es un niño,
Una jaula es una jaula,
Los sentimientos, Las angustias,
Todas son las mismas. Lo único que cambia es la época

Imagine no end to a road . . .

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from 1975, released April 2, 2021

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No-No Boy Portland, Oregon

Nashville-born, Oregon musician & scholar. New album "Empire Electric out on Smithsonian Folkways fall 2023.

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