Birds of Flims

Song Birds of Flims
Artist Sun Kil Moon
Album Universal Themes

Lyrics

[00:00.000] 作词 : Mark Kozelek
[00:01.000] 作曲 : Mark Kozelek
[00:14.66] Damn if I didn't just go walking and find some horses
[00:18.79] A man-made lake and some trees
[00:21.24]
[00:22.17] Came back to my room all covered in sweat
[00:25.53] Here at the Swiss Waldhaus Hotel
[00:27.71]
[00:29.03] Filled out an application for a work visa
[00:32.48]
[00:33.50] For Japan and Australia
[00:35.17]
[00:35.93] It's been a few weeks since I've left home
[00:38.91] And I feel out of place
[00:40.80] And out of my element
[00:42.18]
[00:43.62] I work from 7 at night
[00:46.06] Until 5 AM when the AD says "Wrap"
[00:49.42]
[00:50.55] And a runner named Fabio flashlights me back to my hotel
[00:55.29] Before the sun comes up
[00:57.64] Then I get in my bed
[00:59.26]
[00:59.98] And talk with my girl on the phone to the birds chirping
[01:03.54]
[01:04.37] How the hell did I end up playing myself in an Italian film
[01:08.31]
[01:09.05] Set in a ski town in Switzerland
[01:11.07]
[01:40.40] Damn if I didn't just go walk in the yard
[01:43.39]
[01:43.98] So alone on my night off
[01:46.96]
[01:47.81] I felt like Jimmy Page walking the mountains out behind Aleister Crowley's house
[01:54.00]
[01:54.99] It was too dark and it got so cold
[01:57.46]
[01:58.34] That I turned back around
[02:00.61] Came back to my room read Graham Nash's Wild Tales
[02:04.13]
[02:04.64] Til I fell asleep to the sound
[02:07.02]
[02:18.03] The sound of the birds
[02:19.25]
[02:22.25] The birds of Flims
[02:24.65]
[02:26.63] Yeah I've asked around
[02:28.12]
[02:30.00] But nobody knows the names of 'em
[02:32.91]
[02:35.61] Of the birds
[02:36.81]
[02:39.67] The birds of Flims
[02:41.89]
[02:44.14] Yeah I've asked around
[02:45.44]
[02:47.37] But nobody knows the names of 'em
[02:50.36]
[02:54.04] Damn if I didn't just go walking down the road
[02:57.07] When a girl named Veronica stopped me
[03:00.49]
[03:01.30] She said she was from Milan and that she recognized me from the film
[03:05.36] And that today was her birthday
[03:07.43]
[03:08.45] We talked a little bit
[03:09.89] But there was a barrier
[03:11.00] And she went one way and I went the other
[03:14.85] And I walked along the dandelions and down to market
[03:18.65]
[03:19.88] Where I bought her some flowers
[03:21.98]
[03:22.78] On the way back to my hotel
[03:24.66] I left them in the lobby of hers with a note
[03:26.96] "Veronica happy birthday - Mark"
[03:29.20] And when I saw her again on the set
[03:31.57] She said "Grazie" and I could tell the gesture
[03:34.64] Had touched her heart
[03:36.63] Damn if I didn't go to dinner last night with Paul
[03:39.87] But his throat was sore
[03:41.33] And I could see that he was feeling ill
[03:43.46] He spends more time on the set than I do
[03:46.15] And it's cold out there
[03:47.26] And the last two days he was playing Hitler
[03:51.52] I could see he was grappling with that
[03:53.88] And I felt bad and I gave him some words of support
[03:57.40] And we talked about John Hughes movies home ownership
[04:00.38] And the cost of living in San Francisco and New York
[04:05.02] And damn if I didn't go out later with a set dresser
[04:08.99] Or something like that
[04:10.64] Named Cipriana
[04:12.43] We talked for four hours at a bar down the street
[04:15.02] And the music was terrible
[04:16.18] But yeah I liked her kinda
[04:18.86]
[04:19.62] She's been with someone for four or five years
[04:21.72] And I kinda figured that anyhow and told her "Well so have I"
[04:26.24] And that made life easier for both of us
[04:28.27] And I walked her drunk a** back to her room
[04:30.67] And like a gentleman I didn't try
[04:33.52]
[04:43.92] And I went to my room
[04:45.41]
[04:47.27] I looked down at the waterfront
[04:49.49]
[04:52.52] From my balcony I felt
[04:54.02]
[04:56.08] The surrealness of my surroundings
[04:59.36]
[05:01.42] I got in my bed
[05:02.78]
[05:04.70] Looked up at the baby blue ceilings above
[05:07.73]
[05:10.30] And thought of my home
[05:11.78]
[05:12.45] And my girl
[05:13.40]
[05:13.91] And I ached for her love
[05:15.99]
[06:16.80] Damn when it all ended
[06:18.36] If I didn't have them fly me out
[06:21.77] To New Orleans
[06:23.53]
[06:24.14] Where I saw kitty cats sleeping on porches
[06:27.10] And drank real iced tea for the first time in six to eight weeks
[06:31.27] It was nice not having to walk down that awkward path again
[06:35.04] And not to have to yell or to holler
[06:37.88] About eating pasta pomodoro for the 38th time in a month
[06:41.88] If its price was 60 Swiss f**kin' francs
[06:45.59] Damn if I didn't go walking the next afternoon
[06:48.41]
[06:49.47] Down Oretha Castle
[06:51.50] I ate a catfish lunch at Cafe Reconcile
[06:55.52] With a side of macaroni and cheese
[06:57.56] And cornbread and collard greens
[06:59.34]
[06:59.96] Saw it advertised on channel 99
[07:03.06]
[07:03.85] The public access channel
[07:05.91]
[07:06.48] And I walked across the street to a gym
[07:08.58] And I watched two fighters spar
[07:09.84] And I talked to them during their break
[07:11.46] While they sipped on their Snapple
[07:13.12]
[07:14.38] And I thought what is life if not a fight
[07:17.87] Or a test of will and grace
[07:20.24]
[07:21.05] Some would match it by throwing bombs like Mike Tyson
[07:24.59] But some like Pernell are slippery and win cleverly
[07:26.97]
[07:28.04] Some are fearless like Gatti
[07:30.09] But like Henry Akinwande
[07:31.11]
[07:32.29] Some of them buckle and stall
[07:34.25]
[07:35.20] When the going gets tough with much due respect
[07:37.60] Some of them break down and cry
[07:39.22] Like Oliver "The Atomic Bomb" McCall
[07:42.59] Life's a chess game for all of us
[07:44.83] Hit don't be hit jab and hook and feint and bob and weave
[07:48.41]
[07:49.09] When the fighters got back in the ring
[07:51.11] I thought of my own fight in life
[07:52.80] And it was time to be leaving
[07:55.17]
[07:56.59] And damn if I didn't go to the airport
[07:59.13] And fly up to Cleveland Ohio
[08:03.37] I had dinner at Sylvester's in North Canton with my girlfriend and her friends
[08:06.79] And for the first time in a while
[08:08.61] I was surrounded by genuine smiles (beautiful smiles)
[08:11.44] There at the table with all of them I felt content
[08:13.96]
[08:15.00] And grounded and rooted again
[08:17.42] And was dropped off to face the hardships
[08:20.03] Of a single mom who happens to be one of my closest and dearest friends
[08:22.93]
[08:25.23] Fell asleep in her spare room to the sound of crop dusters
[08:28.19]
[08:29.24] And cars on the highway
[08:30.67]
[08:32.13] Back to my roots where unconditional love
[08:34.65] Rules over everything
[08:35.96] And I could no longer hear the birds of Flims

Pinyin

[00:00.000] zuò cí : Mark Kozelek
[00:01.000] zuò qǔ : Mark Kozelek
[00:14.66] Damn if I didn' t just go walking and find some horses
[00:18.79] A manmade lake and some trees
[00:21.24]
[00:22.17] Came back to my room all covered in sweat
[00:25.53] Here at the Swiss Waldhaus Hotel
[00:27.71]
[00:29.03] Filled out an application for a work visa
[00:32.48]
[00:33.50] For Japan and Australia
[00:35.17]
[00:35.93] It' s been a few weeks since I' ve left home
[00:38.91] And I feel out of place
[00:40.80] And out of my element
[00:42.18]
[00:43.62] I work from 7 at night
[00:46.06] Until 5 AM when the AD says " Wrap"
[00:49.42]
[00:50.55] And a runner named Fabio flashlights me back to my hotel
[00:55.29] Before the sun comes up
[00:57.64] Then I get in my bed
[00:59.26]
[00:59.98] And talk with my girl on the phone to the birds chirping
[01:03.54]
[01:04.37] How the hell did I end up playing myself in an Italian film
[01:08.31]
[01:09.05] Set in a ski town in Switzerland
[01:11.07]
[01:40.40] Damn if I didn' t just go walk in the yard
[01:43.39]
[01:43.98] So alone on my night off
[01:46.96]
[01:47.81] I felt like Jimmy Page walking the mountains out behind Aleister Crowley' s house
[01:54.00]
[01:54.99] It was too dark and it got so cold
[01:57.46]
[01:58.34] That I turned back around
[02:00.61] Came back to my room read Graham Nash' s Wild Tales
[02:04.13]
[02:04.64] Til I fell asleep to the sound
[02:07.02]
[02:18.03] The sound of the birds
[02:19.25]
[02:22.25] The birds of Flims
[02:24.65]
[02:26.63] Yeah I' ve asked around
[02:28.12]
[02:30.00] But nobody knows the names of ' em
[02:32.91]
[02:35.61] Of the birds
[02:36.81]
[02:39.67] The birds of Flims
[02:41.89]
[02:44.14] Yeah I' ve asked around
[02:45.44]
[02:47.37] But nobody knows the names of ' em
[02:50.36]
[02:54.04] Damn if I didn' t just go walking down the road
[02:57.07] When a girl named Veronica stopped me
[03:00.49]
[03:01.30] She said she was from Milan and that she recognized me from the film
[03:05.36] And that today was her birthday
[03:07.43]
[03:08.45] We talked a little bit
[03:09.89] But there was a barrier
[03:11.00] And she went one way and I went the other
[03:14.85] And I walked along the dandelions and down to market
[03:18.65]
[03:19.88] Where I bought her some flowers
[03:21.98]
[03:22.78] On the way back to my hotel
[03:24.66] I left them in the lobby of hers with a note
[03:26.96] " Veronica happy birthday Mark"
[03:29.20] And when I saw her again on the set
[03:31.57] She said " Grazie" and I could tell the gesture
[03:34.64] Had touched her heart
[03:36.63] Damn if I didn' t go to dinner last night with Paul
[03:39.87] But his throat was sore
[03:41.33] And I could see that he was feeling ill
[03:43.46] He spends more time on the set than I do
[03:46.15] And it' s cold out there
[03:47.26] And the last two days he was playing Hitler
[03:51.52] I could see he was grappling with that
[03:53.88] And I felt bad and I gave him some words of support
[03:57.40] And we talked about John Hughes movies home ownership
[04:00.38] And the cost of living in San Francisco and New York
[04:05.02] And damn if I didn' t go out later with a set dresser
[04:08.99] Or something like that
[04:10.64] Named Cipriana
[04:12.43] We talked for four hours at a bar down the street
[04:15.02] And the music was terrible
[04:16.18] But yeah I liked her kinda
[04:18.86]
[04:19.62] She' s been with someone for four or five years
[04:21.72] And I kinda figured that anyhow and told her " Well so have I"
[04:26.24] And that made life easier for both of us
[04:28.27] And I walked her drunk a back to her room
[04:30.67] And like a gentleman I didn' t try
[04:33.52]
[04:43.92] And I went to my room
[04:45.41]
[04:47.27] I looked down at the waterfront
[04:49.49]
[04:52.52] From my balcony I felt
[04:54.02]
[04:56.08] The surrealness of my surroundings
[04:59.36]
[05:01.42] I got in my bed
[05:02.78]
[05:04.70] Looked up at the baby blue ceilings above
[05:07.73]
[05:10.30] And thought of my home
[05:11.78]
[05:12.45] And my girl
[05:13.40]
[05:13.91] And I ached for her love
[05:15.99]
[06:16.80] Damn when it all ended
[06:18.36] If I didn' t have them fly me out
[06:21.77] To New Orleans
[06:23.53]
[06:24.14] Where I saw kitty cats sleeping on porches
[06:27.10] And drank real iced tea for the first time in six to eight weeks
[06:31.27] It was nice not having to walk down that awkward path again
[06:35.04] And not to have to yell or to holler
[06:37.88] About eating pasta pomodoro for the 38th time in a month
[06:41.88] If its price was 60 Swiss f kin' francs
[06:45.59] Damn if I didn' t go walking the next afternoon
[06:48.41]
[06:49.47] Down Oretha Castle
[06:51.50] I ate a catfish lunch at Cafe Reconcile
[06:55.52] With a side of macaroni and cheese
[06:57.56] And cornbread and collard greens
[06:59.34]
[06:59.96] Saw it advertised on channel 99
[07:03.06]
[07:03.85] The public access channel
[07:05.91]
[07:06.48] And I walked across the street to a gym
[07:08.58] And I watched two fighters spar
[07:09.84] And I talked to them during their break
[07:11.46] While they sipped on their Snapple
[07:13.12]
[07:14.38] And I thought what is life if not a fight
[07:17.87] Or a test of will and grace
[07:20.24]
[07:21.05] Some would match it by throwing bombs like Mike Tyson
[07:24.59] But some like Pernell are slippery and win cleverly
[07:26.97]
[07:28.04] Some are fearless like Gatti
[07:30.09] But like Henry Akinwande
[07:31.11]
[07:32.29] Some of them buckle and stall
[07:34.25]
[07:35.20] When the going gets tough with much due respect
[07:37.60] Some of them break down and cry
[07:39.22] Like Oliver " The Atomic Bomb" McCall
[07:42.59] Life' s a chess game for all of us
[07:44.83] Hit don' t be hit jab and hook and feint and bob and weave
[07:48.41]
[07:49.09] When the fighters got back in the ring
[07:51.11] I thought of my own fight in life
[07:52.80] And it was time to be leaving
[07:55.17]
[07:56.59] And damn if I didn' t go to the airport
[07:59.13] And fly up to Cleveland Ohio
[08:03.37] I had dinner at Sylvester' s in North Canton with my girlfriend and her friends
[08:06.79] And for the first time in a while
[08:08.61] I was surrounded by genuine smiles beautiful smiles
[08:11.44] There at the table with all of them I felt content
[08:13.96]
[08:15.00] And grounded and rooted again
[08:17.42] And was dropped off to face the hardships
[08:20.03] Of a single mom who happens to be one of my closest and dearest friends
[08:22.93]
[08:25.23] Fell asleep in her spare room to the sound of crop dusters
[08:28.19]
[08:29.24] And cars on the highway
[08:30.67]
[08:32.13] Back to my roots where unconditional love
[08:34.65] Rules over everything
[08:35.96] And I could no longer hear the birds of Flims