Walk Like Thunder 歌詞
Walk Like Thunder - Aesop Rock/John Darnielle/Kimya Dawson/Nikolai Fraiture
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 Bradford 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 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 Amy 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 Amy 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 truck when I found 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 eleven
Teen's my favorite song
I said then get your a** 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 hair
And 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 drew
Of the two of us that said they're flying over you too
Now the silver pink ponies
Have my home 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
Even creatures of habit predisposed
To systematically clinging together in the cold
Know the measure of a pack it's not
A question of the whole
But the individuals that bottleneck into the fold
On a march black Sabbath
News from the ministry of make
Believe that reach a tarmac in Minneapolis
Middle seat 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 in twenty four
And no one knew the future
I'll take it everybody knows the future
Antibodies hatching in a Hella
Back 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 Mohawk
You let us wheel you down beneath
The leaning tower of flow charts
To be around your beats without a
Beeping sound of Bogart
And speak about whatever people speak about
When nobody's acknowledging the obvious
Disease about to crowbar in
Deplane slow comatose of baggage
From king of hearts to carrion for jackals
And never got to sing us all his own swan song right
Coincidentally the rebel in me walked like thunder
Walk like thunder