Song | Not Because It’s Easy, But Because It’s Hard |
Artist | Jens Lekman |
Album | CORRESPONDENCE |
[00:00.000] | 作词 : Jens Lekman |
[00:01.000] | 作曲 : Jens Lekman |
[00:17.855] | Knock knock, are you there? |
[00:20.780] | Sorry to wake you, my fellow bear |
[00:23.967] | I'll slip this song under a rock somewhere |
[00:27.050] | So you can hear it when it's summer |
[00:34.808] | It hurts to hear you been exhausted |
[00:37.760] | I've seen too many people 'round me haunted |
[00:41.025] | By the cruelest to-do lists |
[00:44.317] | Longer than the end credits of movies |
[00:52.284] | It shocked me to hear about Avicii |
[00:55.157] | Did you see that documentary? |
[00:58.292] | I read Avicii means hell in Buddhism |
[01:01.662] | And hell is what his dream had become |
[01:09.551] | That scene when he tried to cancel those shows |
[01:12.921] | Made me think back on some years ago |
[01:16.108] | So scared of letting anyone down |
[01:19.477] | I worked myself slowly into the ground |
[01:28.855] | Felt the cortisol pumping through my sleep |
[01:32.277] | When an ad flashed by in my Facebook feed |
[01:35.752] | A cheap DNA cloning kit |
[01:38.939] | Didn't know technology had made it there yet |
[01:48.761] | Connected it to a USB hub |
[01:51.869] | Dabbed saliva on a cotton bud |
[01:55.056] | Gave my passwords to all my email accounts |
[01:58.374] | And slowly a body rose from the ground |
[02:06.211] | With more clones of me we would have moretime |
[02:09.397] | One could write the tune and the other therhymes |
[02:12.715] | A third could focus on the business |
[02:15.771] | And a fourth would send greeting cards for Christmas |
[02:23.922] | But soon our focus fell apart |
[02:26.926] | I said "guys, if all of us do our part |
[02:30.348] | We could make it to the moon with our art |
[02:33.900] | Not because it's easy, but because it's hard |
[02:43.278] | But because it's hard |
[02:47.876] | |
[02:50.175] | I heard the clones bragging |
[02:53.074] | About all the sleep they'd been missing |
[02:56.418] | They posted vids of them sipping |
[02:59.500] | On a smoothie while their eyes were twitching |
[03:07.807] | Coffee for lunch, email for dinner |
[03:10.837] | In those press photos we ve never looked thinner |
[03:14.155] | Exhaustion only happens to a winner |
[03:17.237] | Wear it like a badge of honour |
[03:25.231] | It was not until clone number one |
[03:28.862] | Was hospitalized with palpitations |
[03:32.232] | That they asked themselves what they'd done |
[03:35.628] | And were horrified by what they had become |
[03:45.267] | And the slaves turned on their master |
[03:49.264] | Filmed me while they kicked my ass there |
[03:52.581] | And posted it with the caption |
[03:55.977] | Smash the capitalist system |
[04:01.959] | |
[04:05.695] | So I hope you slept well in your bear's den |
[04:09.456] | I hope you're back on your feet again |
[04:12.826] | But if you should need the time to |
[04:16.065] | Take the next month off and I'll cover for you |
[04:23.197] |
[00:00.000] | zuò cí : Jens Lekman |
[00:01.000] | zuò qǔ : Jens Lekman |
[00:17.855] | Knock knock, are you there? |
[00:20.780] | Sorry to wake you, my fellow bear |
[00:23.967] | I' ll slip this song under a rock somewhere |
[00:27.050] | So you can hear it when it' s summer |
[00:34.808] | It hurts to hear you been exhausted |
[00:37.760] | I' ve seen too many people ' round me haunted |
[00:41.025] | By the cruelest todo lists |
[00:44.317] | Longer than the end credits of movies |
[00:52.284] | It shocked me to hear about Avicii |
[00:55.157] | Did you see that documentary? |
[00:58.292] | I read Avicii means hell in Buddhism |
[01:01.662] | And hell is what his dream had become |
[01:09.551] | That scene when he tried to cancel those shows |
[01:12.921] | Made me think back on some years ago |
[01:16.108] | So scared of letting anyone down |
[01:19.477] | I worked myself slowly into the ground |
[01:28.855] | Felt the cortisol pumping through my sleep |
[01:32.277] | When an ad flashed by in my Facebook feed |
[01:35.752] | A cheap DNA cloning kit |
[01:38.939] | Didn' t know technology had made it there yet |
[01:48.761] | Connected it to a USB hub |
[01:51.869] | Dabbed saliva on a cotton bud |
[01:55.056] | Gave my passwords to all my email accounts |
[01:58.374] | And slowly a body rose from the ground |
[02:06.211] | With more clones of me we would have moretime |
[02:09.397] | One could write the tune and the other therhymes |
[02:12.715] | A third could focus on the business |
[02:15.771] | And a fourth would send greeting cards for Christmas |
[02:23.922] | But soon our focus fell apart |
[02:26.926] | I said " guys, if all of us do our part |
[02:30.348] | We could make it to the moon with our art |
[02:33.900] | Not because it' s easy, but because it' s hard |
[02:43.278] | But because it' s hard |
[02:47.876] | |
[02:50.175] | I heard the clones bragging |
[02:53.074] | About all the sleep they' d been missing |
[02:56.418] | They posted vids of them sipping |
[02:59.500] | On a smoothie while their eyes were twitching |
[03:07.807] | Coffee for lunch, email for dinner |
[03:10.837] | In those press photos we ve never looked thinner |
[03:14.155] | Exhaustion only happens to a winner |
[03:17.237] | Wear it like a badge of honour |
[03:25.231] | It was not until clone number one |
[03:28.862] | Was hospitalized with palpitations |
[03:32.232] | That they asked themselves what they' d done |
[03:35.628] | And were horrified by what they had become |
[03:45.267] | And the slaves turned on their master |
[03:49.264] | Filmed me while they kicked my ass there |
[03:52.581] | And posted it with the caption |
[03:55.977] | Smash the capitalist system |
[04:01.959] | |
[04:05.695] | So I hope you slept well in your bear' s den |
[04:09.456] | I hope you' re back on your feet again |
[04:12.826] | But if you should need the time to |
[04:16.065] | Take the next month off and I' ll cover for you |
[04:23.197] |