[00:00.000] 作曲 : Charles Arthur Russell Jr.
[00:02.051]I really wanted to stay awake
[00:04.715]I was trying to stay awake
[00:07.745]And it was about 7 o'clock on Sunday Morning
[00:14.772]Been up all night
[00:16.784]Knew I had to finish my work
[00:20.232]I knew I had to
[00:20.806]As I looked out my window it was
[00:24.411]Bright sunlight on the orange bricks of the next building
[00:30.132]Very bright sight somehow reflecting
[00:34.547]And through the window if I was able to understand
[00:37.760]I guess why I couldn't stay awake
[00:41.835]It was not conscious
[00:43.533]Before I realized I couldn't stay awake anymore
[00:47.347]But now it's even worse than before
[00:51.056]I was listening to a tape of a lecture on Buddhism
[00:59.311]At which I was present
[01:02.184]I heard myself asking a lot of stupid questions
[01:09.682]I was thickheaded at the lecture
[01:11.824]Sitting there on the floor
[01:13.522]But to hear it all now it's even worse than before
[01:17.518]Those shoes I had were some name I can't remember
[01:24.728]I found them in a wastebasket about to be emptied
[01:29.561]They're mostly the only shoes I wear
[01:31.285]When I found them they had been worn
[01:33.348]The bottoms were worn off
[01:38.103]Worn off on the edges
[01:39.618]They were mostly in good shape
[01:40.637]I found that they fit me
[01:43.249]I was very happy
[01:44.868]There was something about them that sticks to the floor when I walk
[01:51.791]It makes a noise
[01:53.672]I kept wearing them
[01:54.978]They got wet many times and now the stitches holding them together on the sides is coming apart
[02:02.658]Everywhere
[02:03.886]And you can see my colored socks in the hole where they come apart
[02:09.763]But they stick to the floor when I walk still
[02:12.663]Very noticeable
[02:14.073]I stepped in some sticky stuff
[02:15.275]Spilled by the door
[02:17.339]Since then it's even worse than before
[02:21.780]On Broadway one night
[02:25.541]There was this fairly high pitched, loud tone that sounded like a siren
[02:32.490]People were looking around to see where it came from
[02:38.106]The food store on the corner provided a lot of the light
[02:43.252]Because it was open
[02:45.525]Pretty soon I realized that the sound was coming from
[02:52.369]The hood of this one car that was parked on the street nearby
[02:56.940]It was empty and locked as you walked toward it
[03:02.792]And became even louder
[03:06.135]I first noticed the sound when I walked past the store
[03:10.184]But now it's even worse than before
[03:13.998]I really wanted to show somehow how things deteriorate
[03:20.320]Or how one bad thing leads to another
[03:24.500]At first there were plenty of things to point to
[03:28.862]Lots of people, places, things, ideas
[03:32.336]Turning to shit everywhere
[03:35.157]I could describe these instances
[03:37.848]But the more I thought about them
[03:40.722]The less they seemed to be negative things
[03:44.065]But appeared in the scenes as something completely new and productive
[03:47.905]And I couldn't talk about them in the same way
[03:52.633]But I knew it was true that there really are
[03:59.634]Dangerous crises
[04:00.757]Growing in many different places
[04:03.918]That I was blind to them
[04:10.867]Once it was easy to find something to deplore
[04:14.420]But now it's even worse than before
[04:18.207]The question is whether or not
[04:21.473]This kind of music is going to hypnotize you
[04:26.044]Do you resent being made to listen to
[04:29.597]This monotonous music
[04:33.358]Or having to listen to
[04:35.553]Such boring sentences
[04:36.728]Friends have said that by producing this kind of music
[04:41.378]People are put to sleep
[04:45.140]In fact, I've always thought this too
[04:47.752]I've always disliked the Rolling Stones
[04:49.920]Since I found out what they were up to
[04:53.499]So when the prospect of doing this very hypnotic music came to my mind
[05:01.231]I realized that I should at least bring up the problems of listening to this kind of rhythm
[05:06.090]That is, regularity may temporarily take your mind of the more important tasks we have
[05:13.195]I had to decide if it was in our best interest to present this
[05:21.554]But now that I went ahead and did it after asking what it was for
[05:24.506]Now it's even worse than before
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