Текст песни Topo Gigio (Mark Kozelek) с переводом

Last night we tried to watch Manchester by the Sea

For the second time we tried to watch it, we fell asleep

But last week, we watched Palo Alto starring James Franco

We got through it, now that was a good one

Today is my day of listening

Today is my day of not speaking

Today is my day of writing

Today is my day of reading

Today is my day of reflecting

Today is my day of silently thinking

My quiet meditative day

My cat is on her green quilt on the coffee table looking over the bay

And the rain pours and it pours and it pours

It’s a season of rain

But now it’s a new night

But now it’s another night

And I’m back to work singing

While the musicians are bringing

Lovely music to my singing

And at the parts where I am speaking

Player setting for me, it’s beautiful automatically

How can it not be?

How can it not be?

Eeney meeney miney moe

Catch a tiger by its toe

If he hollers, let him go

Eeney meeney miney moe

And now begins my time of quiet

Now is my time to let the music do the talking

To let the piano and the drums and the hollow-bodied guitar do everything

It’s time for me to pause and to just breathe, to let the music be

Now I feel it’s time to be singing

The same good thoughts to sing, before they heal

To wish for all countries to stop bombing

To wish for the starving to be eating

To remember being young and catching snakes in the field

I walked to North Beach and back silently

Grossly, where nobody knows me

Where nobody stops me

Over the Trieste to get an iced tea

Where nobody knows me

Well I wasn’t there, the world turned without me

Nobody knows me

A girl walks into Trieste, all curvy

Every guy’s head turns, she’s got a big ass

She walks away and an old guy says

«We'll see if those jeans still fit her in ten years»

Guys with guitars were playing «Hotel California»

When I got to Trieste, the corner of Grant and Vallejo

By my own eyes I got the last sweet roll of villo

And I listened to them play as I took the sandwich from the bag

It was sitting on my lap

It was beautiful and I don’t even like the Eagles

They remind me of the most painful and boring corners of suburban life

Backseat of my mom’s car, bored crazy crazy bored

On the way to my aunt and uncle’s house

They killed my pet pig out there

They said they didn’t know he was my pet pig

They said they cooked him up

They said they didn’t know the pig was my pet Topo Gigio

They cooked him up with the farmhouse

And I cried and I cried and I cried like a baby at my aunt and uncle’s farmhouse

If you’re a songwriter and you’re having dry spell

I don’t want to hear about writer’s block, that sounds like a living hell

If you can’t find the poetry, I suggest you walk around the block

If you can’t find it, then write about when you were a kid and you got the

chicken pox

If you grow marijuana, then write about your marijuana crop

If you like animals, then write about the ocelot

And if it’s raining outside, then write about the raindrops

I still smell the Ohio farm pig smell melding with the smell of the corn crops

I’m a person who, knock on wood, hasn’t suffered a lot of writer’s block

For better, for worse, this is my lot in life

I’m not afraid to lose my spot in the cafeteria

With the Tiffanys and the jocks

Were you afraid to sit alone in the cafeteria?

I’m not, for to be an artist is to not be a conformist

That is the meaning for me, of being a true artist

I’m a sparrow fluttering around, unafraid of the bows and arrows darting around

I’m a sparrow, not afraid to take an arrow

And to bleed like Pablo Picasso

Did Lou Reed care what people thought?

Did Muhammad Ali care about what lessons

The United States thought he needed to be taught?

I look at the cactus in the coffee shop

I look at the succulents in the Spanish clay pot

That cactus might have more left in it that I got

I walk around around around around around around around the block

I see poetry in the trash in the parking lot

I see the strip club and I see the neon signs all lit up

I see young girls hanging outside with their juicy thick butts

I ain’t no deadbeat pup

And these guys playing guitar, piano, and drums sure are not

Listen to them play, listen to them play

Now is my time to stop singing

To let the piano and the guitar and the drums do the talking

And now me, myself, and I and me

Are going to jump into this bacchanal with some vocal harmony

Okay, now it’s time for me to start talking again

Because 59 Tomahawk missiles just launched to Syria

And the mother of all missiles just went down in Afghanistan

And North Korea and the USA are making a stand

The tension is escalating, the tension is escalating

Watch out leaders, how you know one of your own

Isn’t going to sneak up behind you with a wire

And choke you out, and choke you out

And choke you out, and choke you out

And choke you out, and choke you out

And choke you out, and choke you out

And choke you out, and choke you out

And stomp you out, and stomp you out

And pull you out, and pull you out

This is the sound of chaos, this is the sound of war

This is the sound of the wounded and the suffering

And the buildings burning and collapsing

And the cities being bombed

And the men, women, and children are being tortured

And leaders will be assassinated

This is the sound of war, this is the sound of war