Released by the band themselves in 2001. Recorded by Andrew Hall at his studio and remixed by Roger Scheepers and the Moonlighters at Honeyslide Studios. Mastered at Fun City by Wharton Tiers. All original songs BMI. Art by Mackie Osbourne

Musicians:

Bliss Blood: vocals, singing saw, ukulele
Henry Bogdan: National steel guitar, jaw harp
Andrew Hall: bass
Daria Klotz: vocals, baritone ukulele

Guest Musicians:

Dan Levinson - clarinet on "Mink Carpet"
Jon-Erik Kellso - trumpet on "All My Life" and "42nd Street"
Todd Londegan - tap dancing on "42nd Street"
Matt Munisteri - guitar on "Right On" and banjo on "Abandoned Blues"

TRACKS:

1. Cafe Life
2. Dreamland
3. Hula Blues
4. Honolulu March
5. Infatuation
6. All My Life
7. Blue and Black Eyed
8. Mink Carpet
9. 42nd Street
10. Abandoned Blues
11. Right On
12. You Let Me Down
13. Blue Smoke
14. Mystified
15. It Isn't Goodnight Yet

LYRICS:

Dreamland

There's a million lights,
that twinkke like teardrops on fire
Ocean on the right, just murmuring,
"How I admire." Though she tries,
she can never reach the world beyond the beack
This world is called Dreamland,
It is a fairy land, where feet touch the ground
Luna on the left,
and Dreamland before you all night
Cotton candy skies reflect the bright paradise
Faces seem from a dream, every sound
is echoing like laughter
Walking in a dream, a prism of light

Blue and Black-Eyed

It's darker than a tavern, my soul
is just a cavern,
and every whisper magnified
My hopes are torn asunder,
it isn't any wonder, I'm blue and black-eyed
Oh wending my way up the steps, rung by rung,
The crushing weight of life opposing my demise
The tenemant walls and gravity conspire
To extend my last hour one minute more
It's darker than a tavern, my soul is just a
cavern, and everyw whisper magnified
My hopes are torn asunder,
it isn't any wonder, I'm blue and black-eyed
I've had all the ardor that slaps can convey
McGurk's too gay, for my final display
I can't sashay through those doors today
Till the crimps, and the pimps,
and the shills pass away....
And if I climb up, seven flights,
Up from the street, into the heights
Away, above the Bowery lights
As far as such as I might
I'll fly down through the misty clouds
The air shaft gloom will be my shroud
Perhaps the clouds will staunch my flight
And I won't go to hell tonight....
Goodbye to the stars and the jars
in the bars
Farewell to Mercury and Mars
Adieu dear Venus, for love's a farce
Although it was mine, I called it ours.

Mink Carpet

Mink carpet, silky milk, floating wavy white
Pearl and umbra infinite, softly parted smile
Baby doll, swim in fur, luscious milky down
Baby doll, inky purr, sweet slinky frown
Blue black tremor shakin' me,
wakin' in the dark
Veiled misty petals sweet, burying the spark
Invisible craving, your lips on my ear
My head is swimming,
glimmering with your charms
I'm a baby rolling in your mink carpet arms.

Abandoned Blues

Mid Smoke and steam my lovin' baby went away
He got up on that train
And now he's gone to stay
And I'm staring down
A lonesome railroad track
I've got those abandoned blues
He told me when he stopped
That he never stopped for long
He stayed and broke my heart
And now he's up and gone
And I'm staring down a lonesome railroad track
I've got those abandoned blues
Someday I'll find a truer lover,
he'll want me more than any other
My new love will be so good to me,
he'll never roam
Then one rainy night my hobo man
will come back home
He'll say to me, you are so strong,
You are so tall, I never kenw
I returned by it's too late, too late,
my used-to-be has got somebody new
He'll say to me, you are so strong,
You are so tall, I never kenw
I returned by it's too late, too late,
my used-to-be has got somebody new

Mystified

I used to have such a sweet disposition
I was so casual and nonchalant
But now I'm filled with a strange indecision
Don't know what I want
You were with me when all the trouble started
You were right by my side, my side
Such confusion the moment that we parted
I was mystified
Then I know what I had to do
Closed my eyes and started dreaming of you
Now I know that you were daydreaming too
Now I'm no longer mystified....
Now I'm enlightened instead of bewildered
I found the secret 'cause I gave you a chance
What an incredible confidience builder
The key to romance
You were with me when all the trouble started
You were right by my side, my side
Such confusion the moment that we parted
I was mystified
Then I know what I had to do
Closed my eyes and started dreaming of you
Now I know that you were daydreaming too
Now I'm no longer mystified....

It Isn't Goodnight Yet

Although I don't want you to go,
because I'll miss you so
I'm thinking of your lips on mine,
how wonderful it finally will be, oh oh
No I don't want you to go, but I anticipate it so
Because goodnight will never be the same to me
It isn't goodnight yet.
Oh moments pass by, and I long for goodbye
But I don't want you to go, oh no oh no
No Idon't want you to go, but I anticipate it so
Because goodnight will never be the same to me
It itsn't goodnight yet.