BorderlinePerson

Lyrics  by Danny Brook and Durga Mc Broom

Lyrical arrangement and vocals and keyboards  Durga  Mc Broom

Music Durga Mc Broom

Verse

 I met a man sitting on a curb in front of my house

And this is his story:

 It was 4 am on a Tuesday winter morning

I haven’t had a thing to eat or drink for days

 I sat for hours when a Chevy passed me by.

I will kill for a shower but they never even wave or say goodbye.

No one seems to see the human through this haze

I haven’t had a drink in days but still I’m walking through this maze

Pre Chorus

 I was walking with the moon as my companion.

Still I feel abandoned and alone

Darkness swallowed me and I began to dream

The moon she speaks to me of the husband , the father and the man

I used to be

but my hungry belly drowns out the moon

So I drift and I drift and I shuffle to the tune.

 CHORUS

 By cluttered highways you don’t see me, all I want is be noticed in your eyes.

There’s no 1 there and I am a soul with hopes and dreams

Won’t u reach out your hand.

I’m just like u but for circumstance,

Not an animal,

 I’m not just a drifter

Not just a drifter

 Verses

 Seem addicted to this sadness

It’s the only thing that still belongs to me and only me

 I saw a little girl today

She looked so much like mine.

I stopped to touch her hair and then I realized that no one was there

 Bridge

 We who are phantoms in this cold world’s eye are still the ones who

Are the only ones who can still see each other cry.

 God please deliver me from this madness!

Give me back my life

I don’t want to wake up one more day

With the cat laughing at me and the clouds upside down I forgotten the face of my wife

Copyright 2004 .Danny Brook and Durga Mc Broom.

All right reserved.

The Drifter was a ballad. I wrote the original  words at  a Mc Donald’s in Santa Monica while watching a homeless man ask for change . Then about one month later   I was watching a dog for a neighbor. I had written the words but I suck at singing. I became  friends with  the dog owner :

“ Do you know somebody who can sing?”I asked.

“ Do you like Pink Floyd?,”she replied.

“Are you serious? Pink Floyd is my favorite band!.”

 A few days later I met Durga . She is such an amazing human being. I felt like I could tell her anything.

We became best friends. She also got to meet my mom. I asked her to teach me how to sing because I hated my voice.

She made me a tape of her singing  scales. I told her that I can’t sing and she said that I just needed to practice scales. I showed her my words for the Drifter. She liked my lyrics about the moon and being alone. She asked me if she could take my words and write music?

I said “ Of course!”

 She is an amazing singer.

I gave her the words. She wrote all the music and arranged the words and sang. She also added her own words to make it a Durga song. I really wanted Durga to feel the song. I originally wrote the song about a homeless man.  Then I realized that the song was really about me. My fear of being

homeless. When I made the sketch for the video I had pictures of my mom. Dad told me that  who was homeless as a child in Israel. I also found pictures of my best friend Jason Hashimoto. We met when I was 6 and he killed himself  when he was 27.  I am dedicating this song to Mom, Jason and Grandpa.

 I always kept in touch with Durga using email. I asked her if it was ok to release the song and Durga said “Of course.”

 It took me so many years to go back to music.