《Back When I Was 4》歌词

歌曲： Back When I Was 4

所属专辑：It’s the Ones Who’ve Cracked That the Light Shines Through

歌手： Jeffrey Lewis

时长： 04:43

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Back When I Was 4 - Jeffrey Lewis/Jack Lewis/Anders Griffen[00:00:00]

Back when I was 4 and I knew the[00:00:01]

Name of every dinosaur[00:00:03]

I knew how to read ROM comic books[00:00:04]

My babysitter said I was really smart[00:00:06]

When the lights went out everything changed[00:00:08]

The radio music made me feel strange[00:00:10]

And I had a real bad dream about[00:00:13]

A gorilla in the bathroom[00:00:14]

Back when I was 6 and[00:00:17]

I took some things real serious[00:00:18]

And I thought that every[00:00:20]

Song that came on the radio[00:00:22]

Was referring to strange sexual acts[00:00:24]

Because they thought I wouldn't know the facts[00:00:27]

And being small is hard and[00:00:29]

No one ever tells you how[00:00:31]

And back when I was 8 I[00:00:33]

Would sit outside on an old milk crate[00:00:35]

And look out at the world from[00:00:37]

The stoop across the street[00:00:39]

The boomboxes and the hot concrete[00:00:40]

And every Halloween they hung[00:00:43]

A million rubber skeletons across ninth street [00:00:45]

And back when I was 12 or so[00:00:49]

I swear to god I never felt so low[00:00:51]

Everyone but me was[00:00:53]

Making out and eating cookies[00:00:54]

I had more than my brain could stand[00:00:57]

I threw my life in a garbage can[00:00:59]

I felt so weird[00:01:01]

I had to disappear[00:01:02]

In crying suicide disease [00:01:02]

At 15 getting stoned felt good[00:01:05]

And it sent me back to childhood[00:01:07]

And nothing ever mattered to me more than that [00:01:09]

But then 16 became eclipse[00:01:12]

My brain became apocalypse[00:01:15]

I was lost and found and[00:01:16]

I've never been the same [00:01:18]

And back when I was 22[00:01:21]

I left the best thing that I knew[00:01:22]

And I gave it up for fortune and for fame[00:01:24]

I played like I didn't know how[00:01:29]

I shocked the world[00:01:30]

I wowed the crowd[00:01:32]

But I deserved more than what they gave[00:01:33]

Back when I was 27 still nothing had been forgiven[00:01:37]

Clay turns into rock and rock just sits[00:01:40]

So sitting on a crowded beach[00:01:45]

I'd pretend I was a leech[00:01:46]

And I'd stick to things here and there for a little bit[00:01:48]

And back when I was 31 I knew[00:01:53]

I'd become what I'd become[00:01:54]

Nothing left to reveal[00:01:56]

And there was nowhere else to turn[00:01:58]

So shocked and withered dumb and bitter[00:02:00]

And in need of a babysitter[00:02:02]

I'd gladly let my hand fall off and burn burn burn[00:02:04]

Back when I turned the big 4-0[00:02:09]

I realized just how much there was to go[00:02:11]

And I started to think that being alone forever[00:02:13]

Wasn't where it was at[00:02:15]

So I took my head out of the window[00:02:17]

And I taught myself how to love real fast[00:02:18]

I started talking about painting[00:02:20]

With a woman in the laundromat[00:02:22]

And back when I was 50[00:02:25]

And my first wife had just left me[00:02:26]

I felt okay and I sang my daughter[00:02:29]

Funny little songs[00:02:31]

And just when I thought the best was past[00:02:33]

I fell in love for real at last[00:02:35]

And it didn't even matter[00:02:37]

That it had taken me so long[00:02:38]

And back when I was 63 the public rediscovered me[00:02:41]

My comic books and albums had[00:02:44]

All become rare cult-collector items[00:02:46]

And both my parents were deceased[00:02:48]

So they didn't see my records get re-released[00:02:51]

And I got a dog for the first time in my life[00:02:53]

And back when I was 74 my[00:02:57]

Dog died and I got two more[00:02:59]

I still felt really good about my daughter[00:03:01]

And also about my girlfriend[00:03:03]

And I would sing and draw a little bit[00:03:05]

But mostly I'd just wake up early and sit[00:03:07]

And hang out with the puppies[00:03:09]

And wish that I could live forever[00:03:11]

And back when I was 87 and my[00:03:13]

Grandson had just turned eleven[00:03:15]

My woman was dead[00:03:17]

And my dogs were getting pretty old[00:03:18]

My body didn't work quite like it should[00:03:21]

But overall things were pretty good[00:03:23]

I was getting decent royalties[00:03:25]

From the reissued comic books and records[00:03:26]

And back when I was 106[00:03:29]

My only friend[00:03:34]

Was one goldfish[00:03:36]

Everyone I ever knew was dead and gone[00:03:40]

And the goldfish never had a name[00:03:47]

And the neighbors thought I was insane[00:03:51]

And I flushed it down the toilet when[00:03:56]

I saw it floating upside down[00:03:59]

And back when I was 128 I'd sit[00:04:04]

Outside on an old milk crate[00:04:06]

And look out at the world[00:04:09]

From the stoop across the street[00:04:10]

The boomboxes and the hot concrete[00:04:13]

And every Halloween they hung[00:04:15]

A million rubber skeletons across ninth street[00:04:16]

Every Halloween they hung[00:04:21]

A million rubber skeletons[00:04:22]

Every Halloween they hung[00:04:24]

A million rubber skeletons[00:04:26]

Every Halloween they hung[00:04:28]

A million rubber skeletons[00:04:30]