Текст песни Plague of Ghosts (Fish) с переводом

I found a home in the darkness, found a home in the darkness, found a home in

the darkness

Empty stomach empty head a body fills a vacant bed

And the thunder rolls by, and the rains come, and the days gone and I wonder

where I am

Found a place in the darkness, found a home in the darkness, in the darkness,

home, in the darkness

A crowded room of passers by and in the shadows strangers cry, and the ghosts

try to hide

When the rains come, when the storms form, when I wonder who I am in the

darkness

Home

Digging deep in the darkness, digging it deep down deep down deep down digging

it

Deep in the darkness, digging it deep, down deep, down, deep down digging it

Deep in the darkness, digging it deep, down, down, down, down, digging it

Deep in the darkness, digging it down, deep down, deep, down deep digging it

We watched an insect stray to the edge of its world, a lily pad stretched over

a green mirror

In which the ghost carp swirl like clouds before a storm

This is the season of the rains

This is incoming

And when it came there was no cover, no place to hide

Vision blurred, hard to breathe, trying hard to hold onto something that’s real

Nothing left, nowhere to go, no open road, it’s washed away by swollen streams

Carried off downriver with all my broken dreams

Digging deep in the darkness, digging it deep, down deep down deep, deep,

digging it

Deep in the darkness, digging it deep down, down, down, down digging it

Deep in the darkness, digging it deep, digging it digging it, digging it

Deep in the darkness, digging it deep down, deep down, deep down, digging it

A tethered goat bleats from the corner of the graveyard where the lizards hang

motionless as the angels of stone above them, their broken wings throwing long

shadows into the grass where the scorpions hide

The tigers are running out of jungle

In the end I was tired of being asked if I could say that I was happy now

As if you need me to convince you that everything’s OK

Would you take me back?

Digging deep in the darkness, digging it deep, down deep, down deep,

deep digging it

Deep in the darkness, digging it deep, down, down, down, down, down, digging it

Deep in the darkness, digging it deep, deep down, deep, deep, digging it

Deep in the darkness, down, down, down, down, down, down digging it

Are you happy now? You keep asking, asking am I happy now?

Why can’t you tell me that I’m happy now? Are you happy now?

Happy now? Happy now?

The bloated corpses of unsolved murders and old revolutions, pirouette and

dance amongst the swirls and eddies in their final procession down the muddy

river to the delta where they’re thrown up by the surf onto sterile beaches or

are trapped in the roots of mangrove cathedrals of the islands that gather in

the bay

These are the first arrivals on this new horizon that will be coveted by

strangers who will deposit themselves on these shores to build towers to the

heavens. The storm will come and the rains will fall and remove their dreams

and hopes once again to the waters that surround them. And while they pray the

frogs will chant in the darkness

A heid full of chocolate frogs, a body full of rush, a pocketful of shrapnel

and a skinfull of bush

An eyefull of the future and a belly full of the past, how beautiful the

present when you know it cannae last

A tumblerful of voddie, two fingers in a glass, a handful of promises,

a heart full of remorse

Mindful of your manners when you’re brought down to your knees

A heid full of chocolate frogs is all you gave to me

That’s all you gave to me, that’s all you gave to me

A spoonful of miracles a nostril full of dust a lung full of Virginia the needs

we have we must

A pill to put your heart right a nose out for a deal for a heid full of

chocolate frogs what can you give to me?

What did you give to me?

What did you give to me?

What did you give to me?

You cracked up too soon before the punchline hit home and at the end of the

joke did you notice that no-one was laughing with you

You were out on your own

Waving at trains, waving at cars, waving from bars, waving from aeroplanes

Might as well be waving at stars

You called out her name as the darkness hit home, raised up your Zippo and

opened the skies till the crowd melts away, at the end of the day,

you ran out of light

Praying for rain, praying for signs, praying for time, praying for endless

night, might as well be wishing on stars

Empty churches, empty pews, in the subway nothing moves

And the static on the radio is drowning out the sound of raingods dancing

Empty playgrounds, empty bars, I can’t remember how it was before the flood

When all I had to do was simply recognise the love that’s trapped inside

I gave it all, I took it back and in the end there’s nothing left

Except a shell surrounding emptiness and loneliness, a core of pain

I see my pathway shining

Raingods with Zippos

A tinman hides a broken heart

Raingods with Zippos

He knows the flame has gone that soon he’ll fall apart

So I lay me down to lie and with the rain my lullaby I drift away to dreamless

sleep

Leave behind a life that died, a victim of a plague of ghosts

I was wrapped up in my guilt buried deep within my memories, a shelter of

self-pity

That I know the rain will wash away, I sense the storm arriving

Raingods with Zippos

A tin man rusts away and slowly falls apart

Raingods with Zippos

And all he leaves behind a bleeding broken heart

In the end I found beginnings, not a vision, a wake up call

Raised from the dead by a beating heart and at last I can see it all

And my eyes were opened to the darkness, in my hand a burning flame

A spark of life to touch the fuse and blow these clouds away

I can make it happen, if I want to

Make it happen, if I try

Forgive, forget, forever never means as much as it does today

Make it happen, we can make it happen, we can make it happen

When I wake up, will you be there?

It can never be the same

If we can take our lives slowly, step by step

We can be dancing in the rain

We can make it happen

We can make it happen, make it happen

Forgive, forget, forever means today

Make it happen, we can make it happen

We can make it happen

Forgive, forget, forever means today

Make it happen