| [00:00.100] |
American Dreamers - Old Home Movie - Goran Bregovic |
| [00:00.501] |
One thing I was sure of |
| [00:02.141] |
That my uncle Leo was definitely the hero of my childhood |
| [00:07.119] |
The smell of his old spice cologne carried me |
| [00:09.42] |
Back into that lost childhood more than the home movies did |
| [00:13.645] |
My uncle didn't know it but it was the sweet |
| [00:16.12] |
Cheap smell of car dealers that took me back |
| [00:18.925] |
And made me dissolve into a dream of the past |
| [00:22.666] |
Leo was the last dinosaur that smelled of cheap cologne |
| [00:26.282] |
And he believed in the American dream |
| [00:29.891] |
I was crazy about him because he believed in miracles |
| [00:32.819] |
And Even though he lived inside of life and sold Cadillacs |
| [00:36.578] |
He always looked like a ten-year-old boy whose sleeves were too long |
| [00:41.696] |
When I was ten Leo gave me this great movie camera |
| [00:44.516] |
And my mother always hoped I'd become the next Milton Berle |
| [00:47.628] |
But dreams of houses and cars and fresh-cut lawns |
| [00:50.338] |
Aren't dreams when they become real |
| [00:52.474] |
And somehow I understood what my mother |
| [00:55.229] |
Meant by good morning Columbus |
| [00:57.508] |
And even if my mother didn't like |
| [00:58.701] |
What I was doing with my life |
| [01:01.133] |
I think she'd understand |
| [01:06.21] |
When I was 11I got this really weird earache |
| [01:08.904] |
That wouldn't go away |
| [01:10.640] |
I went to about a hundred doctors |
| [01:12.40] |
But none of them could help me |
| [01:13.896] |
So what Leo did was he went into Mexico |
| [01:16.573] |
And brought back this fat lady witch doctor |
| [01:18.477] |
Who did this mumbo-jumbo and fixed me right up |
| [01:21.998] |
I was grateful but somehow I thought |
| [01:23.390] |
I might've been better off mute |
| [01:26.173] |
All in all I had a very happy childhood |
| [01:29.468] |
My father was a border guard who spent most of his life |
| [01:31.651] |
Trying to keep people from crossing lines |
| [01:34.474] |
Every night for 15years he'd go out and smooth |
| [01:36.577] |
Down the road between Mexico and Arizona |
| [01:39.393] |
And every morning he'd be out there |
| [01:40.392] |
Looking for footprints in the dirt |
| [01:43.440] |
But my father always said that work was like a hat |
| [01:45.228] |
You put on your head |
| [01:46.860] |
And even if you didn't have pants |
| [01:48.140] |
You didn't have to walk |
| [01:48.900] |
Down the street ashamed of your a*s |
| [01:50.535] |
So long as you had a hat |
| [03:06.537] |
And if somebody was to ask me |
| [03:07.553] |
Why I don't get up right now |
| [03:08.566] |
And take the next train back to New York |
| [03:11.590] |
It's because you can't say no to your childhood hero |
| [03:14.855] |
I decided to be his best man |
| [03:16.24] |
But one thing I was sure of |
| [03:18.680] |
No matter how much I loved the smell of cheap cologne |
| [03:21.513] |
I was never going to become my uncle |
| [03:24.193] |
And I was never going to sell Cadillacs |