Raul Malo

We just thought, well, we'll see how it goes.

Worst comes to worst, we'll have a laugh.

And when we were done with it, we really liked it, and we kept it on the record.

Yeah, but it's Frank Sinatra.

The rules don't apply to him.

I know I'd stand in line until you think you have the time to spend an evening with me.

And if we go someplace to dance I know that there's a chance you won't be leaving with me And afterwards we drop into a quiet little place and have a drink or two And then I go and spoil it all by saying something stupid like I love

I can see it in your eyes that you despise the same old lies you heard the night before And though it's just a line to you, for me it's true and never seemed so right before I practice every day to find some clever lines to say to make the meaning come true

But then I think I'll wait until the evening gets late and I'm alone with you.

The time is right, your perfume fills my head, the stars get red and all the night's so blue.

And then I go and spoil it all by saying something stupid like I love.

No, I wasn't writing different kinds of songs.

Well, I guess in a way I was.

I mean, part of that whole...

the feelings behind all those songs is that, you know, you basically have your whole life to write your first record.

So these were songs that I had written, you know, in all my years there in Miami since I started writing songs, you know, and they were, they happened to touch, you know, political, social nerves, you know, and

There's still songs that I play live.

We still sing these songs live, and they're important to us.

But I realize now that at that point in time, those songs were written from a real personal point of view.

And to tell you the truth, I had a problem at the time