Sun Kil Moon — Paroles et traduction des paroles de la chanson This Is My First Day And I'm Indian And I Work At A Gas Station
La page contient les paroles et la traduction française de la chanson « This Is My First Day And I'm Indian And I Work At A Gas Station » de Sun Kil Moon.
Paroles
Fell asleep last night listening to a train whistle blowing across the
Carquinez Strait
And to the wind blowing through the eucalyptus trees
Watching Paolo Sorrentino’s «The Great Beauty»
Fell asleep last night listening to a train
I want to visit my friend because she’s in a lot of pain
It was the shingles, then C. diff, now they’re saying lupus
She’s a single mom with two kids and she don’t deserve any of it
I’d like to go out there when I can
But I’m just back from Finland and soon I’m off to Switzerland
For a part in a film, but when I get home
Going to go see my friend and keep her company for a week or so
I feel bad for not going there now
But I got a life out here, I need to hold the fort down
Got hard wood floors buckling up and an old leaky pipe
Thirty yards of fallen fence that I need to put back upright
And I broke a tooth on a bone in some beef stew
I was eating in Belgium and it cracked right down to the root
My gums are bleeding and they’re turning blue
And I’ve got a dentist appointment on Tuesday
Went to a 7/11 and the clerk, his hands were shaking
I said, «are you all right?"and he said, «it's my first day and I’m Indian and
I work at a gas station»
I said, «you'll be fine,"got my change and as I turned, he said nervously, «yes sir, thank you, have a good day sir»
It’s a nice spring day, April 19th
And the flowers are in bloom and I did yard work until my arms turned pink
And my girl broke my laptop while making the bed
She went right to Best Buy and bought another because she felt so bad
Then we went and bought and an old Vic drawer I liked
And went to an open house, it was built 1902, been kept up real nice
Had a nice back porch and the walls were original brick
It was a great old house but I didn’t like the way the cars blew past it Fell asleep last night here in Flims, Switzerland
Reading the John Connolly book «The Wanderer In Unknown Realms»
Book dealer goes missing, the detective sets out to find him
And he ends up on a murder spree, or was it a hallucination?
Fell asleep last night here again in Flims, Switzerland
Said goodnight on a hotel phone to my girlfriend, Caroline
This movie set’s doing weird things to my head
I’m not Italian, I’m not Swiss, and I can’t act, and I don’t exactly fit in Went to sleep last night, yeah again, here in Flims, Switzerland
And woke up to the sound of Michael Caine’s voice, echoing
Down the hall and just like Martin Sheen in «Apocalypse Now»
I was doing pushups and situps and I was going fucking crazy and crawling the
walls
Walked down the street and I pet a little kitty cat
She was sweet for a second then she turned into a little fucking brat
Came back and Jane Fonda was in the lobby
And we talked about her father, and she was lost and couldn’t find anybody
And we talked about the movie with her and Jon Voight, «Coming Home»
She said she produced it, and that was a fact that I didn’t know
And I asked her to dinner and she said, «I'll take a rain check»
If only I had class like Ted Turner or Gregory Peck
And I’m falling asleep again in goddamn Flims, Switzerland
A closed down ski town with one coffee shop and a field of dandelions
And I look at the snow covered Alps and I’m here until June 9th
Got some scenes this week, which is great, because at this point I’m losing my fucking mind
Never mind all the other verses I’ve written about Switzerland
There’s new things going on in my life, like my girlfriend got a new kitten
And a friend of mine gave out my number to some crazy motherfucker
And I got all pissed off and she said, «who do you think you are,
Mick fucking Jagger?»
I fell asleep last night in New Orleans
Just back from Switzerland, where like I said, I was going insane
And I went and got oysters on the half shell and some blackened alligator
Then I called my friend in Ohio and I flew up there and I stayed with her
Went back to Europe for a tour and I was watching TV
There were missiles flying back and forth from Gaza to Tel-Aviv
And it concerned me cause I got friends over there
When I talk to them on the phone I can hear it in their voices that they’re
scared
Some shit went down on tour and I had to let go one of my band guys
And it hurt me so much that for a solid forty-five minutes I cried
Came to my room and he said, «Mark, I really need this job»
I said, «it's tough love my friend, take some time off and we’ll make music
again one day I promise»
Just back from Europe and it’s Labor Day and I went walking
I laid in the sun all day and I called my friend Jude and we got to talking
Jude’s the widow of my old friend, Tim
I said, «whatever you do, please, don’t ask me about Switzerland»
Then my dad called about someone we love
I put a check in the mail, gotta do what I gotta do when push comes to shove
I hear her voice sometimes and it’s an octave higher
Cause she gets weak from the drugs that dehydrate her
It’s hard to handle but I just keep keeping busy
Traveling and playing and writing until I’m fucking dizzy
Some people love what I do and some get fucking pissy
But I don’t give a fuck, one day they’re all gonna miss me A year ago, I was in a car with a handicapped kid
I said, «so what are you gonna do with your life?"and he sat there blank
And I said, «okay you think about it a minute»
And a few minutes passed and I said, «so what are you gonna do with your life,
it’s been a minute?»
And he said, «I'm just gonna, I’m just gonna, I’m just gonna, I’m just gonna
live it»
I’m going to sleep tonight and I can’t fall asleep listening to the high
pitched foghorns of the Carquinez Strait
They sound like a cacophony of piccolos and flutes, they echo all night
And I just turned forty-eight and I spent seventeen grand on the
Mayweather-Pacquiao fight
Going to sleep tonight with a goddamn ear infection
I broke another tooth on a piece of hard bread, and my gums are fucking hurting
And my friend Ben went on a 50k race and he broke his wrist
And he called me up the other day and he asked me to join him as his guitarist
To play with him in San Francisco, February 23rd
And I said, «yes sir, thank you, have a good day sir»
So I played last night with Ben at the Swedish-American hall
And man, I was so nervous that I was gonna hit the wrong guitar chords
But Ben sang beautifully, and everything fell together pretty well
What a nice combination that was: Ben singing, me on guitar, and a great
pianist named Zach Rae
Caroline was there, and so was Ben’s girlfriend Rachel, they both loved the show
I talked to Bob Mould afterwards
And I told him about how me listening to Candy Apple Grey on a sunny day at an old girlfriend’s house made it into some lyrics
And I hoped that someday they’d make it into a song
It was a pretty funny night
Earlier at dinner, I got picked on a little for still having a flip phone
But after the show, some guy walked into the backstage area and was introduced
to me as «The Smartest Guy In The World»
They said he was a physicist or something like that
And I pulled out my phone to check the time
He pulled his phone out and pointed out that he had the exact same phone that I did
Everyone was laughing, there were some girls looking at us like our phones were
really gross or something
We were all getting pretty tired, Ben and his friends took off
Caroline came back to my apartment, we watched part three of the HBO series The
Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst
It’s February 24th and I still feel a little high from how good everything felt
last night
Traduction des paroles
Je me suis endormi hier soir en écoutant un train siffler à travers le
Le Détroit De Carquinez
Et au vent qui souffle à travers les eucalyptus
Regarder «la grande beauté " de Paolo Sorrentino»
Je me suis endormi hier soir en écoutant un train
Je veux rendre visite à mon amie parce qu'elle souffre beaucoup
C'était les bardeaux, puis C. diff, maintenant ils disent lupus
C'est une mère célibataire avec deux enfants et elle ne mérite rien
J'aimerais y aller quand je peux
Mais je reviens de Finlande et je pars bientôt en Suisse
Pour un rôle dans un film, mais quand je rentre à la maison
Je vais voir mon amie et lui tenir compagnie pendant une semaine environ
Je me sens mal de ne pas y aller maintenant
Mais j'ai une vie, j'ai besoin de tenir le fort
Il y a des planchers en bois dur et un vieux tuyau qui fuit
Trente mètres de clôture tombée que je dois remettre debout
Et j'ai cassé une dent sur un os dans un ragoût de boeuf
Je mangeais en Belgique et ça a craqué jusqu'à la racine
Mes gencives saignent et deviennent bleues
Et j'ai rendez vous chez le dentiste mardi
Est allé à un 7/11 et le greffier, ses mains tremblaient
Je l'ai dit, «êtes-vous d'accord?"et il a dit:" c'est mon premier jour et je suis Indien et
Je travaille dans une station service»
J'ai dit:"tout ira bien", j'ai eu ma monnaie et comme je me retournais, il a dit nerveusement: "Oui Monsieur, Merci, passez une bonne journée monsieur»
C'est un beau jour de printemps, le 19 avril
Et les fleurs sont en fleurs et j'ai fait du travail de jardin jusqu'à ce que mes bras deviennent roses
Et ma fille a cassé mon ordinateur portable en faisant le lit
Elle est allée droit à Best Buy et en a acheté un autre parce qu'elle se sentait si mal
Puis nous sommes allés et acheté et un vieux tiroir Vic j'ai aimé
Et est allé à une journée portes ouvertes, il a été construit 1902, été maintenu très agréable
Avait un beau porche arrière et les murs étaient en brique originale
C'était une grande vieille maison mais je n'aimais pas la façon dont les voitures ont soufflé devant elle S'est endormie hier soir ici à Flims, en Suisse
Et je suis allé chercher des huîtres sur la demi coquille et un alligator noirci
Puis j'ai appelé mon amie dans L'Ohio et j'ai volé là bas et je suis resté avec elle
Je suis retourné en Europe pour une tournée et je regardais la télévision
Il y avait des missiles qui volaient de Gaza à Tel-Aviv
Et ça m'inquiétait parce que j'avais des amis là bas
Lorsque je leur parle au téléphone, je peux entendre leur voix qu'ils sont
peur
Une merde est tombée en tournée et j'ai dû lâcher un de mes gars de groupe
Et ça m'a tellement fait mal que pendant quarante-cinq minutes j'ai pleuré
Il est venu dans ma chambre et il a dit: "Mark, J'ai vraiment besoin de ce travail»
J'ai dit: "c'est dur d'aimer mon ami, de prendre du temps et de faire de la musique
encore un jour je te le promets»
Juste de retour d'Europe et C'est la fête du travail et je suis allé à pied
J'ai couché au soleil toute la journée et j'ai appelé mon ami Jude et on a parlé
Jude est la veuve de mon vieil ami, Tim
J'ai dit: «quoi que vous fassiez, s'il vous plait, ne me posez pas de questions sur la Suisse»
Puis mon père a appelé pour quelqu'un qu'on aime
J'ai mis un chèque par courrier, dois faire ce que je dois faire quand la poussée vient pour pousser
J'entends sa voix parfois et c'est une octave plus haute
Parce qu'elle devient faible à cause des médicaments qui la déshydratent
C'est dur à gérer mais je reste occupé
Voyager, Jouer et écrire jusqu'à ce que je sois étourdi
Certaines personnes aiment ce que je fais et d'autres deviennent pissy
Mais je m'en fous, un jour je vais tous leur manquer il y a un an, j'étais dans une voiture avec un enfant handicapé
Je l'ai dit, «alors, tu vas faire quoi de votre vie?"et il resta vide
Et j'ai dit, «d'accord, vous y réfléchissez une minute»
Et quelques minutes se sont écoulées et j'ai dit: "alors, qu'est-ce que tu vas faire de ta vie,
ça a été une minute?»
Et il a dit, «je vais, je vais, je vais, je vais juste
vivre»
Je vais dormir ce soir et je ne peux pas m'endormir en écoutant Le high
corne de brume du détroit de Carquinez
la nuit dernière