[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