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Goran Bregović - American Dreamers
One thing I was sure of
That my uncle Leo was definitely the hero of my childhood
The smell of his old spice cologne carried me
Back into that lost childhood more than the home movies did
My uncle didn't know it but it was the sweet
Cheap smell of car dealers that took me back
And made me dissolve into a dream of the past
Leo was the last dinosaur that smelled of cheap cologne
And he believed in the American dream
I was crazy about him because he believed in miracles
And Even though he lived inside of life and sold Cadillacs
He always looked like a ten-year-old boy whose sleeves were too long
When I was ten Leo gave me this great movie camera
And my mother always hoped I'd become the next Milton Berle
But dreams of houses and cars and fresh-cut lawns
Aren't dreams when they become real
And somehow I understood what my mother
Meant by good morning Columbus
And even if my mother didn't like
What I was doing with my life
I think she'd understand
When I was 11 I got this really weird earache
That wouldn't go away
I went to about a hundred doctors
But none of them could help me
So what Leo did was he went into Mexico
And brought back this fat lady witch doctor
Who did this mumbo-jumbo and fixed me right up
I was grateful but somehow I thought
I might've been better off mute
All in all I had a very happy childhood
My father was a border guard who spent most of his life
Trying to keep people from crossing lines
Every night for 15 years he'd go out and smooth
Down the road between Mexico and Arizona
And every morning he'd be out there
Looking for footprints in the dirt
But my father always said that work was like a hat
You put on your head
And even if you didn't have pants
You didn't have to walk
Down the street ashamed of your a*s
So long as you had a hat
And if somebody was to ask me
Why I don't get up right now
And take the next train back to New York
It's because you can't say no to your childhood hero
I decided to be his best man
But one thing I was sure of
No matter how much I loved the smell of cheap cologne
I was never going to become my uncle
And I was never going to sell Cadillacs