Song | Walk Like Thunder |
Artist | Kimya Dawson |
Album | Thunder Thighs |
作曲 : k | |
作词 : kimya dawson | |
I have this new tattoo of which the story must be told | |
About the night | |
I almost overdosed ten years ago | |
I woke up in the hospital with skin clammy and cold | |
And tubes in my urethra, down my throat and up my nose | |
My friends and the doctors were all shocked | |
I wasn't dead | |
That's when | |
Katrina looked at me and this is what she said | |
Walk like thunder | |
Walk like thunder | |
Walk like thunder | |
Walk like thunder | |
So I walked to the rebel spot, | |
I walked all over uptown | |
I walked right side up and | |
I walked upside down | |
I walked to | |
Chetzemoka with my eyes fixed on the ground, yeah | |
We walked all over | |
Chetze Beach and kept the rocks we found | |
Then I walked back to my parents' house, | |
I walked back to my old bed, yeah | |
I walked back and | |
I walked fast past all the voices in my head | |
I walked with the sweats and | |
I walked with the chills | |
I walked in | |
New York City and | |
I walked in | |
Bed-ford Hills | |
I walked into open mic nights and | |
I walked into the rooms | |
I walked feeling optimistic and | |
I walked feeling doomed | |
I walked with some mama's boys and | |
I walked with some punks | |
I walked dressed up like a rabbit, | |
I walked dressed up like a skunk | |
I walked with some givers and | |
I walked with some leeches | |
I walked all by myself and | |
I walked with the | |
Moldy Peaches | |
I walked all over the world so | |
I could sing my songs to you | |
And to your most desperate emails | |
I'd said, "This is what I do" | |
I walk like thunder | |
Walk like thunder | |
Walk like thunder | |
Walk like thunder | |
But at some point | |
I got so comfortable | |
That I didn't even realize that | |
I'd started to crawl | |
That my old friend | |
Ammi died at 37 of a heart attack | |
And I cracked 'cause people my age are not supposed to die like that | |
No, no, no, no, people my age are not supposed to die like that | |
He was the old manager of the sidewalk cafe | |
That place was a second home to me, it's where | |
I learned to play | |
And his personality really helped create a space | |
Where a bunch of honest misfits could all gather and feel safe | |
He was a cynic, a supporter, he was crazy, he was queer | |
He'd either yell out, "Cut the bullshit" or he'd say, "I'm glad you're here" | |
And it was always such an honor to have | |
Ammi on my side | |
That's why it hit me like a | |
Mack truck when | |
I found out that he died | |
Yeah, it hit me like a | |
Mack trucks when | |
I found out that he died | |
Then enter | |
Alex, 33 years old and so sick with the cancer | |
And trapped inside a body that betrayed his real gender | |
We all hoped and prayed that he would go into remission | |
At least long enough, just long enough to complete his transition | |
He said, "Kimya, did you know Eleventeen's my favorite song?" | |
I said, "Then get your ass on stage right now and you can sing along" | |
That's the very first song | |
I ever wrote all by myself | |
It's about angels and recovery and friends and hope and health | |
By the time we finished singing he was pissed off, he was scared | |
He said, "I lost my home, my lover, my insurance and my hairAnd now I'm about to lose you too, my new friend" | |
I looked into those big blue eyes and said we'll meet again | |
Yeah, I looked into his sad blue eyes and said we'll meet again | |
Then I got the phone call from | |
Alyssa and she told me he was dying | |
By the time | |
I got to his bedside we were both already flying | |
We held hands and we sang songs, tried to be strong floated around | |
While I cursed the skin that he was in for all the ways it had let him down | |
Yeah, I cursed the skin that he was in for all the ways it had let him down | |
But at the same time | |
I was taking my own body for granted | |
First I lost sight of my feet then they became un-planted | |
And I never felt so stupid or so selfish or so sad, yeah | |
My body had been good to me and | |
I treated it so bad, yeah | |
My body had been good to me and | |
I treated it so bad | |
Then he said, "Mama, I don't want my friends to watch me die" | |
So I kissed his cheek, made him a shirt and then | |
I said goodbye | |
And they cremated him in the shirt that | |
I drewOf the two of us that said they're flying over you too | |
Now the silver pink ponies have my homie in their crew | |
So I tightened up my laces and knew what | |
I had to do | |
I started walking again, | |
I started walking again, | |
I miss my friends | |
I started walking again, | |
I started walking again, | |
I miss my friends | |
Walk like thunder(Walk like thunder) | |
Walk like thunder(Walk like thunder) | |
Walk like thunder(Walk like thunder) | |
Walk like thunder(Walk like thunder) | |
Walk like thunder(Walk like thunder) | |
Walk like thunder(Walk like thunder) | |
Walk like thunder(Walk like thunder) | |
Walk like thunder(Walk like thunder) | |
Walk like thunder | |
Walk like thunder | |
Walk like thunder | |
Walk like thunder | |
Even creeps as a habit, predisposed | |
To systematically clinging together in the cold | |
Know the measure of a pack, it's not a question of the whole | |
The individuals that bottleneck into the fold | |
On a March blank | |
Sabbath, news from the ministry of make-believe | |
That reach a tarmac in | |
Minneapolis, middle see | |
Yesterday the cells inside his chest were growing baby teeth | |
Today a raven radiated vacancy | |
Wait, two years ago a friend of mine | |
Called me to redefine all enemy-kind | |
I'm at the hospital at twenty-four and no one knew the future | |
I'll take it everybody knows the future | |
Antibodies hatching in a hellaback with no room to maneuver | |
Like disappearing pills into the masticated fuchsia | |
I asked you how you feeling, you told me like a robot | |
I gave you a | |
Nintendo, you gave yourself a | |
MohawkYou let us will you down beneath the leaning tower of flow charts | |
To be around your beats without a beeping sound of | |
BogartAnd speak about whatever people speak about | |
When nobody's acknowledging the obvious disease about the crowbar | |
In deep plane slope, comatose of baggage | |
From king of hearts to carrying for jackals | |
And never got to sing us all his own swan song right | |
Coincidentally the rebel in me walk like thunder | |
Walk like thunder |
zuò qǔ : k | |
zuò cí : kimya dawson | |
I have this new tattoo of which the story must be told | |
About the night | |
I almost overdosed ten years ago | |
I woke up in the hospital with skin clammy and cold | |
And tubes in my urethra, down my throat and up my nose | |
My friends and the doctors were all shocked | |
I wasn' t dead | |
That' s when | |
Katrina looked at me and this is what she said | |
Walk like thunder | |
Walk like thunder | |
Walk like thunder | |
Walk like thunder | |
So I walked to the rebel spot, | |
I walked all over uptown | |
I walked right side up and | |
I walked upside down | |
I walked to | |
Chetzemoka with my eyes fixed on the ground, yeah | |
We walked all over | |
Chetze Beach and kept the rocks we found | |
Then I walked back to my parents' house, | |
I walked back to my old bed, yeah | |
I walked back and | |
I walked fast past all the voices in my head | |
I walked with the sweats and | |
I walked with the chills | |
I walked in | |
New York City and | |
I walked in | |
Bedford Hills | |
I walked into open mic nights and | |
I walked into the rooms | |
I walked feeling optimistic and | |
I walked feeling doomed | |
I walked with some mama' s boys and | |
I walked with some punks | |
I walked dressed up like a rabbit, | |
I walked dressed up like a skunk | |
I walked with some givers and | |
I walked with some leeches | |
I walked all by myself and | |
I walked with the | |
Moldy Peaches | |
I walked all over the world so | |
I could sing my songs to you | |
And to your most desperate emails | |
I' d said, " This is what I do" | |
I walk like thunder | |
Walk like thunder | |
Walk like thunder | |
Walk like thunder | |
But at some point | |
I got so comfortable | |
That I didn' t even realize that | |
I' d started to crawl | |
That my old friend | |
Ammi died at 37 of a heart attack | |
And I cracked ' cause people my age are not supposed to die like that | |
No, no, no, no, people my age are not supposed to die like that | |
He was the old manager of the sidewalk cafe | |
That place was a second home to me, it' s where | |
I learned to play | |
And his personality really helped create a space | |
Where a bunch of honest misfits could all gather and feel safe | |
He was a cynic, a supporter, he was crazy, he was queer | |
He' d either yell out, " Cut the bullshit" or he' d say, " I' m glad you' re here" | |
And it was always such an honor to have | |
Ammi on my side | |
That' s why it hit me like a | |
Mack truck when | |
I found out that he died | |
Yeah, it hit me like a | |
Mack trucks when | |
I found out that he died | |
Then enter | |
Alex, 33 years old and so sick with the cancer | |
And trapped inside a body that betrayed his real gender | |
We all hoped and prayed that he would go into remission | |
At least long enough, just long enough to complete his transition | |
He said, " Kimya, did you know Eleventeen' s my favorite song?" | |
I said, " Then get your ass on stage right now and you can sing along" | |
That' s the very first song | |
I ever wrote all by myself | |
It' s about angels and recovery and friends and hope and health | |
By the time we finished singing he was pissed off, he was scared | |
He said, " I lost my home, my lover, my insurance and my hairAnd now I' m about to lose you too, my new friend" | |
I looked into those big blue eyes and said we' ll meet again | |
Yeah, I looked into his sad blue eyes and said we' ll meet again | |
Then I got the phone call from | |
Alyssa and she told me he was dying | |
By the time | |
I got to his bedside we were both already flying | |
We held hands and we sang songs, tried to be strong floated around | |
While I cursed the skin that he was in for all the ways it had let him down | |
Yeah, I cursed the skin that he was in for all the ways it had let him down | |
But at the same time | |
I was taking my own body for granted | |
First I lost sight of my feet then they became unplanted | |
And I never felt so stupid or so selfish or so sad, yeah | |
My body had been good to me and | |
I treated it so bad, yeah | |
My body had been good to me and | |
I treated it so bad | |
Then he said, " Mama, I don' t want my friends to watch me die" | |
So I kissed his cheek, made him a shirt and then | |
I said goodbye | |
And they cremated him in the shirt that | |
I drewOf the two of us that said they' re flying over you too | |
Now the silver pink ponies have my homie in their crew | |
So I tightened up my laces and knew what | |
I had to do | |
I started walking again, | |
I started walking again, | |
I miss my friends | |
I started walking again, | |
I started walking again, | |
I miss my friends | |
Walk like thunder Walk like thunder | |
Walk like thunder Walk like thunder | |
Walk like thunder Walk like thunder | |
Walk like thunder Walk like thunder | |
Walk like thunder Walk like thunder | |
Walk like thunder Walk like thunder | |
Walk like thunder Walk like thunder | |
Walk like thunder Walk like thunder | |
Walk like thunder | |
Walk like thunder | |
Walk like thunder | |
Walk like thunder | |
Even creeps as a habit, predisposed | |
To systematically clinging together in the cold | |
Know the measure of a pack, it' s not a question of the whole | |
The individuals that bottleneck into the fold | |
On a March blank | |
Sabbath, news from the ministry of makebelieve | |
That reach a tarmac in | |
Minneapolis, middle see | |
Yesterday the cells inside his chest were growing baby teeth | |
Today a raven radiated vacancy | |
Wait, two years ago a friend of mine | |
Called me to redefine all enemykind | |
I' m at the hospital at twentyfour and no one knew the future | |
I' ll take it everybody knows the future | |
Antibodies hatching in a hellaback with no room to maneuver | |
Like disappearing pills into the masticated fuchsia | |
I asked you how you feeling, you told me like a robot | |
I gave you a | |
Nintendo, you gave yourself a | |
MohawkYou let us will you down beneath the leaning tower of flow charts | |
To be around your beats without a beeping sound of | |
BogartAnd speak about whatever people speak about | |
When nobody' s acknowledging the obvious disease about the crowbar | |
In deep plane slope, comatose of baggage | |
From king of hearts to carrying for jackals | |
And never got to sing us all his own swan song right | |
Coincidentally the rebel in me walk like thunder | |
Walk like thunder |