Текст песни Apology (Shane Koyczan and the Short Story Long) с переводом

I am still sleeping

As we walk through the city

Our hands turning red and our breath

Leaves a mark on the sky that is too bright

From all the sky scrapers

And I hold you back from the speeding cars

Going no where, for nothing, for no one

(spoken)

I’m sorry

I’m sorry that I keep saying that I’m sorry

I know it’s strange

Strange in a George W. Bush hasn’t been assassinated yet kind of way

But I say I’m sorry for stupid shit

And trivial things

And she sings the sweet logic that apologies should grow like trees

Only able to bear fruit of its root is planted in the soil of genuine sincerity

But I somehow manage to parity each apology by speaking it before I act

And the fact is, I’m not really sorry that I completely dig Degrassi

Because it was Yick and Arthur who got me through wet dreams and puberty

Lady, I don’t expect you to understand the reference

But i’ve been into this shit ever since the casting director said

«Fuck physicality, give me som reality

Give me kids that can’t act and are ugly

They’ll teach the world about beauty.»

Lady, I can relate to this

Because before I met you I used to want to lock myself into a vault just to

feel precious

But now with every kiss, hello and goodbye, I feel a self worth no banker can

tally

And my heart is a protest that I let rally against my ribs

'Cause I want to build my bones into cribs and lay my reluctance to rest

Test what it would be like to live phonetically

To hold you unapologetically

To plant a giving tree on my front lawn so that when you’re gone,

it can give you back to me

And I’m sorry

That when you sleep next to me that you’re forced to listen to the symphony of

the unplugged nostril

And I’m sorry that one time, for some reason, I called you «Ma'am»

That’s fucked up

Fucked up in a «I just bought a pair of speedos so i can go swimming with you»

kind of way

And crazier than that is the fact that I’ll play at being brave

Because doubt is about as useful as a fire escape when you’re trying to doge a

tidal wave

When you got no time to save anybody but yourself

You better believe that you’re worth it

And you are the time it takes to take the time to get to know you

We’ve managed to muddle through the awkward stage of

«I like you and do you like me», but when we both said yes

Life became a multiple choice test

Not knowing anything we became each other’s best guess

And holding your hand is less like exploration and more like discovery

Lady, I don’t have to study you to be sure

You’re the choice I made before I knew what the other choices were

(sung)

It was made easy

From the sham that we saw

Full of pretense and low-grade suggestions

I want you sweetly

A world full of hopes

With a brightness of all our convictions

(spoken)

And like the best idea I’ll ever have, I want you to occur to me daily

And I’m sorry, but I want to kiss you every time you have something incredible

to say

But you’re beautiful, beautiful in a you kind of way

You’re like the long lost vinyl of Louis Armstrong

And I want to play you until it, until it, until it

I want to pl-, pl-, play you until it, until it ski-, until it ski-

I want to play you until it skips

I want to tell you a secret and I want you to listen with your lips

I want my hands on your hips like they were their final resting place

And then put that funeral onto paper so you can trace their life time back to

the fact

That I’m more inclined to find a place in your heart to haunt for as long as

you want me too

Lady, I’ll rattle chains up and down the halls of you

And this isn’t the greatest romance the world has ever seen

Let’s face it, we’ve been making out to songs about break-up and heart ache

But I’ve come to realize that romance should be less like a flower and more

like an earthquake

And I’m not saying that I want to shake cities to the ground

I’m not saying that I want the rubble that remains to become a lost and found

That we find the kind of tolerance to rebuild in the face of tragedy

'Cause I’m tired of living in a world that says people only come together when

faced with catastrophe

I want you to want me to be the me that you see when I’m free to be the me that

got you next to me

And as for romance, well, I want that too

I want to fall asleep next to you one hundred times a night so I can know you

one hundred times better before we hit the day light

And in spite of all of this, I also want amnesia

So that I can relive each kiss with a perfect newness that leaves me smashed in

the arms of rapture

I want the sky to fracture under the impossible weight of an apology

'Cause I’m sorry, I’m sorry that I want so much

I’m sorry that I’ve been using «I'm sorry» as a crutch to lean on for so long

But if you sing me that song of sweet logic again

Then I promise to make the effort to stand on my own

There’s a reason that our hearts are more like a muscle and less like a bone

I’ve known so many people who’ve grown up flexing it in front of a mirror

As if falling for their own reflection would be adequate

And that’s bullshit, because we only get from now until the time we go

And if they’ve only got time to love themselves then no one’s going to be

around to heard the sound of their heartbeat echo

So lady, don’t expect an apology when I tell you, I’m only held together by a

heart that pumps glue

It’s the strongest muscle in my body, and I’m flexing it for you

(sung)

I am still sleeping

As we walk through the city

Our hands turning red

And breath leaves a mark on the sky that is too bright

From all the sky scrapers

And I hold you back from the speeding cars

Going no where, for nothing, for no one