Song | On the Edge of Time |
Artist | Jens Lekman |
Album | CORRESPONDENCE |
[00:00.000] | 作词 : Jens Lekman |
[00:00.372] | 作曲 : Jens Lekman |
[00:00.744] | October 27th, 2018 |
[00:04.637] | I'm writing you one last time Annika Norlin |
[00:08.398] | It was nice to see you that morning at the station |
[00:13.414] | I'm sure you were a warrior in a previous incarnation |
[00:17.750] | Me, I must've been a rabbit or an ostrich |
[00:21.564] | Or a pile of trembling leaves sown together with cross stitch |
[00:26.344] | My anxiety has been holding me hostage |
[00:30.733] | I've developed this problem with a really tough itch |
[00:35.226] | I went to the clinic to get a prescription |
[00:39.667] | Cried a little in front of the physician |
[00:43.925] | Ointments and sedatives and antibiotics |
[00:48.183] | Went home with a bag full of legal ********* |
[00:52.624] | The best is the sedatives, they work well but softly |
[00:56.699] | I don't scratch myself in sleep, I pass out like a baby |
[01:01.348] | When I wake up I'm rested, l'm calm and happy |
[01:05.711] | The only bad thing is the strange dreams that haunt me |
[01:10.100] | I'm deep in the woods, in a village with tipi's |
[01:14.331] | The branches from old oak trees hang heavy |
[01:18.877] | A woman carrying a baby greets me says she's glad that I came, she's been trying to reach me |
[01:27.471] | She shows me around, the villagers are happy |
[01:31.886] | they give me some wine and flowers to greet me |
[01:35.830] | their society's based on a loose form of anarchy |
[01:40.558] | they've dealt with the climate ,injustice and patriarchy |
[01:44.477] | Cause this is the future I can tell from their technology |
[01:49.335] | But they use it for good and they use it so sparsely |
[01:53.672] | They are not but slaves under their own machinery |
[01:58.086] | The cogwheels turn only when they think it's necessary |
[02:02.266] | And the woman grabs my arm and she looks me in the eye |
[02:06.707] | She's contacted me cause she's worried about our time |
[02:11.200] | This future is oniy one of many lines |
[02:15.536] | That we can potentially walk down |
[02:19.220] | you and I |
[02:23.869] | When I wake up I giggle cause it seems kinda cringey |
[02:28.597] | I think about their village, what abunch of ****ing hippies |
[02:32.934] | This must be because I read that book by Marge Piercy |
[02:37.348] | Where some people from the future make contact with Connie |
[02:41.737] | A woman in a mental institution in the seventies |
[02:45.995] | and show her their world that's one of many possibilities |
[02:50.384] | And instill in her the hope to fight for humanity |
[02:54.824] | I loved that book, but as a document of history |
[02:59.108] | Cause now it seems strange to hope for anything at all |
[03:03.497] | When every step forward seems infinitely small |
[03:07.729] | Save the polar caps from melting by recycling milkbuttles |
[03:12.013] | While the CEO's are flying their pets to skilodges |
[03:16.663] | How vulnerable it is when someone says what they want |
[03:20.895] | Instead of just saying what they don't want |
[03:25.309] | How easy it is to laugh at someone's utopia |
[03:29.620] | after decades of being spoonfed dystopia |
[03:35.732] | I rub my cortison ointment on my eczema |
[03:40.617] | I take my sedatives and crawl up to the heater |
[03:44.875] | Keep treating the outside, ignoring the inside |
[03:49.133] | Keep treating the symptoms, not the root of the problems |
[03:53.731] | And in my next dream the woman's back again |
[03:58.328] | This time she's shouting cause her signal is fading |
[04:02.116] | I wake up sweating, my skin is itching |
[04:06.713] | I put some ice on it and sit down in the kitchen |
[04:11.128] | And outside the leaves are slowly falling |
[04:15.229] | Over pigeons, buildings, CEO's and children |
[04:19.931] | I'm gripped by a love for this world that we live in |
[04:24.242] | And I think about a quote from Ursula Le Guin: |
[04:27.951] | "We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. |
[04:33.045] | So did the divine right of kings. |
[04:37.355] | Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings" |
[04:45.584] | There's a dying Iight in the distance that beckons |
[04:50.416] | As the clocks are rapidly running out of seconds |
[04:54.883] | This is where I get off I reckon |
[04:58.906] | Take care of yourself, your friend |
[05:01.414] | Jens Lekman |
[00:00.000] | zuò cí : Jens Lekman |
[00:00.372] | zuò qǔ : Jens Lekman |
[00:00.744] | October 27th, 2018 |
[00:04.637] | I' m writing you one last time Annika Norlin |
[00:08.398] | It was nice to see you that morning at the station |
[00:13.414] | I' m sure you were a warrior in a previous incarnation |
[00:17.750] | Me, I must' ve been a rabbit or an ostrich |
[00:21.564] | Or a pile of trembling leaves sown together with cross stitch |
[00:26.344] | My anxiety has been holding me hostage |
[00:30.733] | I' ve developed this problem with a really tough itch |
[00:35.226] | I went to the clinic to get a prescription |
[00:39.667] | Cried a little in front of the physician |
[00:43.925] | Ointments and sedatives and antibiotics |
[00:48.183] | Went home with a bag full of legal |
[00:52.624] | The best is the sedatives, they work well but softly |
[00:56.699] | I don' t scratch myself in sleep, I pass out like a baby |
[01:01.348] | When I wake up I' m rested, l' m calm and happy |
[01:05.711] | The only bad thing is the strange dreams that haunt me |
[01:10.100] | I' m deep in the woods, in a village with tipi' s |
[01:14.331] | The branches from old oak trees hang heavy |
[01:18.877] | A woman carrying a baby greets me says she' s glad that I came, she' s been trying to reach me |
[01:27.471] | She shows me around, the villagers are happy |
[01:31.886] | they give me some wine and flowers to greet me |
[01:35.830] | their society' s based on a loose form of anarchy |
[01:40.558] | they' ve dealt with the climate , injustice and patriarchy |
[01:44.477] | Cause this is the future I can tell from their technology |
[01:49.335] | But they use it for good and they use it so sparsely |
[01:53.672] | They are not but slaves under their own machinery |
[01:58.086] | The cogwheels turn only when they think it' s necessary |
[02:02.266] | And the woman grabs my arm and she looks me in the eye |
[02:06.707] | She' s contacted me cause she' s worried about our time |
[02:11.200] | This future is oniy one of many lines |
[02:15.536] | That we can potentially walk down |
[02:19.220] | you and I |
[02:23.869] | When I wake up I giggle cause it seems kinda cringey |
[02:28.597] | I think about their village, what abunch of ing hippies |
[02:32.934] | This must be because I read that book by Marge Piercy |
[02:37.348] | Where some people from the future make contact with Connie |
[02:41.737] | A woman in a mental institution in the seventies |
[02:45.995] | and show her their world that' s one of many possibilities |
[02:50.384] | And instill in her the hope to fight for humanity |
[02:54.824] | I loved that book, but as a document of history |
[02:59.108] | Cause now it seems strange to hope for anything at all |
[03:03.497] | When every step forward seems infinitely small |
[03:07.729] | Save the polar caps from melting by recycling milkbuttles |
[03:12.013] | While the CEO' s are flying their pets to skilodges |
[03:16.663] | How vulnerable it is when someone says what they want |
[03:20.895] | Instead of just saying what they don' t want |
[03:25.309] | How easy it is to laugh at someone' s utopia |
[03:29.620] | after decades of being spoonfed dystopia |
[03:35.732] | I rub my cortison ointment on my eczema |
[03:40.617] | I take my sedatives and crawl up to the heater |
[03:44.875] | Keep treating the outside, ignoring the inside |
[03:49.133] | Keep treating the symptoms, not the root of the problems |
[03:53.731] | And in my next dream the woman' s back again |
[03:58.328] | This time she' s shouting cause her signal is fading |
[04:02.116] | I wake up sweating, my skin is itching |
[04:06.713] | I put some ice on it and sit down in the kitchen |
[04:11.128] | And outside the leaves are slowly falling |
[04:15.229] | Over pigeons, buildings, CEO' s and children |
[04:19.931] | I' m gripped by a love for this world that we live in |
[04:24.242] | And I think about a quote from Ursula Le Guin: |
[04:27.951] | " We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. |
[04:33.045] | So did the divine right of kings. |
[04:37.355] | Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings" |
[04:45.584] | There' s a dying Iight in the distance that beckons |
[04:50.416] | As the clocks are rapidly running out of seconds |
[04:54.883] | This is where I get off I reckon |
[04:58.906] | Take care of yourself, your friend |
[05:01.414] | Jens Lekman |