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Old Notes From Budapest

from Curtains by Paris Street

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Danish beer holds all my hopes for now
a basement bar in Budapest
cigarettes whose name I can't pronounce
plenty of forints still left

there's no reason to keep them anymore
pointless to save or exchange
this time tomorrow I will be airborne
almost half a world away

a Swedish girl takes the stool next to me
she smiles and asks me where I'm from
the smallest set of teeth I've ever seen
it's all that I can focus on

she swears that I am a photographer
and I'm unsure how to reply
I do not feel the need to lie to her
but it's a good way to pass the time

there's a hip hop night just across town
the Swedish girl asks me to go
it's impossible to turn her down
too absurd to tell her 'no'

I meet a serviceman from Boston there
country-hopping while on leave
shies away from the particulars
for the sake of his sanity

I am flailing to 'The Humpty Dance'
it's my last night in this town
a Swedish girl, a Boston serviceman
it's as ridiculous as it sounds

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from Curtains, released March 5, 2013
Written by Carl Polgar.
Performed by Carl Polgar with an acoustic guitar and a keyboard.
Recorded at the end of 2007 at a duplex in the Sylvan Park neighborhood of Nashville.
The creepy picture that accompanies this track was taken at a park in Budapest in October of 2002.

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