所属专辑:Thunder Thighs (Explicit)
时长: 10:34
Walk Like Thunder - Kimya Dawson (金雅·道森)[00:00:00]
I have this new tattoo of which the story must be told[00:00:23]
About the night I almost overdosed ten years ago[00:00:27]
I woke up in the hospital with skin clammy and cold[00:00:34]
And tubes in my urethra down my throat and up my nose[00:00:39]
My friends and the doctors were all shocked[00:00:44]
I wasn't dead[00:00:48]
That's when Katrina looked at me[00:00:50]
And this is what she said[00:00:53]
Walk like thunder[00:00:55]
Walk like thunder[00:01:01]
Walk like thunder[00:01:07]
Walk like thunder[00:01:13]
So I walked to the rebel spot[00:01:19]
I walked all over uptown[00:01:22]
I walked right side up and I walked upside down[00:01:25]
I walked to Chetzemoka with my eyes[00:01:31]
Fixed on the ground yeah[00:01:34]
We walked all over Chetze beach and[00:01:37]
Kept the rocks we found[00:01:40]
Then I walked back to my parents' house[00:01:42]
I walked back to my old bed yeah[00:01:45]
I walked back and I walked fast past[00:01:48]
All the voices in my head[00:01:51]
I walked with the sweats and[00:01:54]
I walked with the chills[00:01:57]
I walked in New York city and[00:01:59]
I walked in Bradford hills[00:02:02]
I walked into open mic nights and[00:02:05]
I walked into the rooms[00:02:09]
I walked feeling optimistic and[00:02:11]
I walked feeling doomed[00:02:14]
I walked with some mama's boys and[00:02:17]
I walked with some punks[00:02:20]
I walked dressed up like a rabbit[00:02:22]
I walked dressed up like a skunk[00:02:25]
I walked with some givers and[00:02:28]
I walked with some leeches[00:02:32]
I walked all by myself and[00:02:34]
I walked with the moldy peaches[00:02:37]
I walked all over the world so[00:02:40]
I could sing my songs to you[00:02:43]
And to your most desperate emails[00:02:46]
I said this is what I do[00:02:49]
I walk like thunder[00:02:52]
Walk like thunder[00:02:58]
Walk like thunder[00:03:04]
Walk like thunder[00:03:10]
But at some point I got so comfortable[00:03:16]
That I didn't even realize that[00:03:21]
I'd started to crawl[00:03:25]
That my old friend Amy died at[00:03:27]
37 of a heart attack[00:03:30]
And I cracked cause people my age[00:03:33]
Are not supposed to die like that[00:03:36]
No no no no people my age are not[00:03:39]
Supposed to die like that[00:03:42]
He was the old manager of the sidewalk cafe[00:03:45]
That place was a second home to me[00:03:50]
It's where I learned to play[00:03:54]
And his personality really helped create a space[00:03:56]
Where a bunch of honest misfits[00:04:02]
Could all gather and feel safe[00:04:05]
He was a cynic a supporter[00:04:08]
He was crazy he was queer[00:04:11]
He'd either yell out cut the bullshit[00:04:14]
Or he'd say I'm glad you're here[00:04:17]
And it was always such an honor[00:04:20]
To have Amy on my side[00:04:22]
That's why it hit me like a[00:04:25]
Mack truck when I found out that he died[00:04:28]
Yeah it hit me like a[00:04:31]
Mack truck when I found that he died[00:04:33]
Then enter Alex 33 years old and[00:04:37]
So sick with the cancer[00:04:41]
And trapped inside a body that[00:04:43]
Betrayed his real gender[00:04:46]
We all hoped and prayed that[00:04:49]
He would go into remission[00:04:51]
At least long enough just long[00:04:54]
Enough to complete his transition[00:04:57]
He said kimya did you know eleven[00:05:00]
Teen's my favorite song[00:05:04]
I said then get your a** on stage[00:05:06]
Right now and you can sing along[00:05:09]
That's the very first song I ever[00:05:12]
Wrote all by myself[00:05:16]
It's about angels and recovery and[00:05:18]
Friends and hope and health[00:05:21]
By the time we finished singing[00:05:24]
He was pissed off he was scared[00:05:27]
He said I lost my home my lover[00:05:30]
My insurance and my hair[00:05:33]
And now I'm about to lose you too my new friend[00:05:36]
I looked into those big blue eyes[00:05:42]
And said we'll meet again[00:05:45]
Yeah I looked into his sad blue[00:05:48]
Eyes and said we'll meet again[00:05:50]
Then I got the phone call from[00:05:53]
Alyssa and she told me he was dying[00:05:55]
By the time I got to his bedside[00:05:59]
We were both already flying[00:06:03]
We held hands and we sang songs[00:06:05]
Tried to be strong floated around[00:06:08]
While I cursed the skin that he was[00:06:11]
In for all the ways it had let him down[00:06:14]
Yeah I cursed the skin that he was[00:06:17]
In for all the ways it had let him down[00:06:19]
But at the same time I was[00:06:22]
Taking my own body for granted[00:06:25]
First I lost sight of my feet[00:06:29]
Then they became unplanted[00:06:32]
And I never felt so stupid or[00:06:34]
So selfish or so sad yeah[00:06:37]
My body had been good to me and[00:06:40]
I treated it so bad yeah[00:06:43]
My body had been good to me and[00:06:46]
I treated it so bad[00:06:49]
Then he said mama[00:06:51]
I don't want my friends to watch me die[00:06:53]
So I kissed his cheek made him a[00:06:57]
Shirt and then I said goodbye[00:07:00]
And they cremated him in the shirt that I drew[00:07:03]
Of the two of us that said they're flying over you too[00:07:09]
Now the silver pink ponies[00:07:15]
Have my home in their crew[00:07:18]
So I tightened up my laces and[00:07:21]
Knew what I had to do[00:07:24]
I started walking again I started walking again[00:07:26]
I miss my friends[00:07:36]
I started walking again I started walking again[00:07:38]
I miss my friends[00:07:48]
Walk like thunder[00:07:50]
Walk like thunder[00:07:56]
Walk like thunder[00:08:02]
Walk like thunder[00:08:08]
Walk like thunder[00:08:14]
Walk like thunder[00:08:20]
Walk like thunder[00:08:25]
Walk like thunder[00:08:31]
Walk like thunder[00:08:37]
Walk like thunder[00:08:43]
Walk like thunder[00:08:49]
Walk like thunder[00:08:54]
Even creatures of habit predisposed[00:09:01]
To systematically clinging together in the cold[00:09:04]
Know the measure of a pack it's not[00:09:07]
A question of the whole[00:09:08]
But the individuals that bottleneck into the fold[00:09:10]
On a march black Sabbath[00:09:12]
News from the ministry of make[00:09:14]
Believe that reach a tarmac in Minneapolis[00:09:16]
Middle seat yesterday the cells inside his[00:09:18]
Chest were growing baby teeth[00:09:21]
Today a raven radiated vacancy[00:09:22]
Wait two years ago a friend of mine[00:09:24]
Called me to redefine all enemy kind[00:09:27]
I'm at the hospital in twenty four[00:09:30]
And no one knew the future[00:09:32]
I'll take it everybody knows the future[00:09:33]
Antibodies hatching in a Hella[00:09:35]
Back with no room to maneuver[00:09:37]
Like disappearing pills into the masticated fuchsia[00:09:39]
I asked you how you feeling you told me like a robot[00:09:42]
I gave you a Nintendo you gave yourself a Mohawk[00:09:45]
You let us wheel you down beneath[00:09:48]
The leaning tower of flow charts[00:09:49]
To be around your beats without a[00:09:50]
Beeping sound of Bogart[00:09:52]
And speak about whatever people speak about[00:09:54]
When nobody's acknowledging the obvious[00:09:56]
Disease about to crowbar in[00:09:58]
Deplane slow comatose of baggage[00:10:00]
From king of hearts to carrion for jackals[00:10:03]
And never got to sing us all his own swan song right[00:10:05]
Coincidentally the rebel in me walked like thunder[00:10:08]
Walk like thunder[00:10:17]