Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Full of Life, artist - Sun Kil Moon. Album song Lunch in thePark, in the genre Инди
Date of issue: 23.02.2021
Age restrictions: 18+
Record label: Caldo Verde
Song language: English
Full of Life |
July 6, 2020 |
I just finished John Fante’s 1933 Was A Bad Year. |
Reading it made me realize I |
can’t write. |
Not with emotional impact like that anyhow. |
That book has it all. |
At 17, Dominic Molise tries to fuck his best friend’s sister, he steals tools |
from his dad, and believes he’ll be a rich southpaw pitcher within six months |
Caroline and I are just back from Martinez. |
I went into the Amtrak station |
there and asked the lady how far east it went |
She said «Chicago.» |
I said «How long does it take, two and a half days?» |
She said «That's right, two and a half days.» |
«Does this train go as far south as L.A.?» |
«Yes» |
«How long does it take?» |
«6 hours or 12 hours, depending.» |
«Depending on what?» |
«If you want to take a bus from Bakersfield it’s six hours.» |
«How far north does it go?» |
«Seattle» |
She watched me pacin' around. |
I finally said |
«Yeah, I’m thinkin' about just getting on a train and taking off.» |
She said «Yeah, well, there are a lot of people doing that right now» |
I was just checking it out. |
Thinking out loud. |
She didn’t seem to mind |
Caroline and I were the only people in there besides a kid sitting on the floor |
looking at his iPhone |
He looked like he hadn’t washed his hair or cut it in a year |
I don’t know what to read now |
I’m going to open Henry Miller’s Moloch, see how it makes me feel |
But nothing makes me laugh like John Fante |
I don’t have any of his other books here with me right now |
I just watched a little news. |
There were fires today. |
One in Gilroy. |
One in Fairfield. |
And one right under the George Miller bridge at 2 pm |
It looks like things are heating up over a confederate monument in Downtown |
Shreveport |
Came home from six days of bein' away |
Checked on the dove who’s been outside my bedroom window |
Protectin' her eggs |
The last time I peeked she was gone |
And there were her two little fuzzy ones |
This past month the dove’s nest comforted me |
Like a guardian angel the mother dove protected me |
Have been so down this year, out of work, no work in sight |
And now it’s July and for some reason I just came home feeling |
Full of life |
So full of life I picked up John Fante’s Full of Life |
At City Lights on Columbus |
Ah they might have to change the name of the street |
Because as of late Christopher Columbus is gettin' a lotta heat |
I gotta ask you |
People burnin' down statues |
Yeah I gotta ask you |
Did you knock down that statue |
Just after cashin' the check |
The Donald Trump wrote you |
I don’t get you |
You go knockin' down statues |
Well maybe I’d join you |
But I got somethin' better to do |
For in this song I might just take the opportunity to knock down you |
And if I may, whoever this song is speakin' to |
May I suggest that your great great great great grandaddy |
Probably ain’t no better than that man who got the plaque or the statue |
Like I said, I came home walked in the door, full of life |
So full of life, full of optimism, knowin' everythings' gonna be alright |
Like I said, I came home walked in the door, full of life |
So full of life, full of optimism, knowin' everything' gonna be alright |
But I slept alone last night and I missed you |
I read Henry Miller’s Moloch, or This Gentile World |
Readin' about his days as a young boss in the telegraph world |
All about the racial tension in The Bowery, New York 1920s |
For laughs I read Fante, for confidence I read Nietzsche |
For the truth I read Henry |
I closed the book missin' my mom and dad and my sister and her girls |
Feeling disconnected and adrift in this 2020 world |
I watched Walk Hard The Dewey Cox Story from beginning to end |
I rewound the part where Dewey’s' brother was halved |
When Dewey with his machete cuts his brother in half |
Yeah I laughed and laughed |
I rewound it so many times for laughs |
I love when the doctor says to his parents |
«This is the worst case I ever seen of a kid gettin' cut in half' |
(Speak English doc we ain’t scientists) |
While we were gone, I walked in circles and circles through the graveyard |
In a state of cogitation |
There are usually two deer in there, a male and a female |
But the last time I walked through there |
I saw two people fornicating |
Yeah fuckin' in the graveyard |
Hey I don’t blame 'em |
Looks like fun, fuckin' in the graveyard |
Bein' young |
I don’t blame 'em, looks like fun |
Fuckin' in the graveyard |
Bein' young |
Yeah where they gonna fuck with everybody stuck in the same home |
And an above ground pool and a flamingo in the yard |
With a garden full of watermelon, squash and chard |
They take their fuckin' to the graveyard |
You ain’t gonna stop nature, no you can’t |
You can file complaints, vent your hates |
Let the blood boil in your veins |
You ain’t never gonna fully stop human nature |
If someone wants his fentanyl fix he will find it |
If somebody wants to fuck behind a gravestone |
They will do it |
And of all things god damn those people were fuckin' behind two tombstones |
Husband and wife |
Each stone engraved with a pentagram |
There hasn’t been a lot happenin' this year I guess |
If I’m singing about kids fuckin' in graveyards |
But I have you and your love, the two deer and now I have these three doves |
But I turn on the TV and all I see are the cases of obliquity |
If I spend too much time sittin' around sedentary |
I get panicky and take a few globules of melatonin to make me sleepy |
I hate the news, it gets me down |
I’m so crazy, Fox makes me laugh, CNN makes me frown |
Everybody’s talkin' «Black Lives Matter» |
And now they’re sayin' «Don't forget to include brown» |
How come when I was in New Orleans all those many years |
Black on black murders |
I told my white friends and they’d say 'and?' |
I told my white friends 'Hey. |
blacks killing blacks in New Orleans is outta |
hand' |
And they’d say 'and?' |
And they’d say 'and?' |
And they’d say 'and?' |
And they’d say 'and?' |
And I said, hey, are you sayin' it doesn’t matter |
Because there were drug dealin', gang bangin' or chasin' somebody' else’s tang |
They said well all that stuff you just mentioned above is felonious |
I said, no, you are erroneous |
I always knew intuitively that black lives mattered |
Some kids are brought up in situations where all they know is what they see |
And I can see in your eyes that a kid who got shot by kid in a New Orleans' |
shoot out |
Is less important than you and me |
'Cause when I used to tell you about black on black crime in New Orleans you |
would yawn |
And now you’re tellin' me that Black Lives Matter on the phone keepin' me up |
until dawn |
As it never dawned on me |
As if this whole time I’ve been sitting around unobservant |
Not noticin' white-owned restaurants and hotels with black servers |
It’s not a trend I follow or information I’ve just come to gather |
Don’t need to see it stenciled on a sidewalk |
Don’t need to be reminded by Don Lemon’s smirky talk |
Don’t need to be taught by teacher’s chalk |
And hey if Black Lives Matter, why do you live in an all-white neighborhood in |
Portland Oregon? |
Of course your protests are peaceful |
Because in Oregon there are no Black People |
And why am I even listenin' to you |
Tell me about race when my girlfriend is Vietnamese |
That’s right, when I kiss her skin |
It tastes sweeter than a light girl’s skin |
Can I say that? |
Is that alright? |
If a woman can say she prefers a man to be of a certain height |
Or that a man with an accent is her type |
Can I say that a darker skin woman turns me on more than light? |
And maybe as I’m white I ain’t supposed to speak on this |
Well, anyone who tells me that eats fish 'n' chips |
Maybe 'cause I’m white they want me to sound like 'Dear Prudence' |
Or John Fogerty, or Ted Nugent, or REM who met as college students |
Or that just me singing about the subject is impudent |
I’m just trying to say I always knew that Black Lives Mattered |
I’m glad that in 2020 |
So many of you have come to gather and acknowledge that Black Lives Matter |
And to me it should be Blacks Lives Matters A Lot! |
'Cause where would Jim Carrey be if was not for Keenan Ivory Wayans? |
You see what I’m sayin'? |
Where would boxin' be without Jack Johnson, Joe Louis and Sugar Ray Robinson? |
And where music be if it weren’t for Robert Johnson, Louis Armstrong, |
James Brown, Isaac Hayes |
Marvin Gaye, Michael J, NWA, HR from The Bad Brains, Fats Domino, Chuck Berry |
Sammy Davis and Miles Davis? |
Where would art be without Bill Trailor and Basquiat? |
And where would writing be without James Baldwin, Mia Angelo |
And the autobiographies of Mike Tyson? |
And where would comedy be without Richard Pryor and Red Foxx and Garret Morris |
Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall and Martin Lawrence? |
And who would have guessed that the highest paid comedian |
In all the world’s history was Kevin Hart? |
So as the sun’s comin' up I look next to the window at the nest |
At the mother dove and her young |
Feelin' their comfort |
Feelin' their detachment from this world situation |
Feelin' their love will continue on no matter what |
The political situation on the ground |
They are three doves and all they know is love and protection |
I feel their appreciation for the nook I’ve given them |
I feel their affection |
I open Henry Miller’s book Moloch |
One-minute Pregosi is ebullient |
The next minute he is crestfallen |
Isn’t that the way it is with all of us? |
Homicide victims in New Orleans, recent trends. |
From the American Journal of |
Epidemiology, volume 128, issue 5. Data are presented on 694 criminal homicide |
victims killed in the city of New Orleans during four years; |
1979, 1982, 1985, |
and 1986. The homicide rate for black males was 6.5 times higher than that for |
white males for the years studied. |
Over 70% of victims were killed by handguns. |
When victims were assigned to one of five socioeconomic strata, |
homicide rates for blacks exceeded those for whites by a factor of at least 2. |
5 times for each socioeconomic stratum. |
White victims were more likely than |
were black victims to be legally intoxicated at the time of death, |
but black victims were nearly four times more likely to have illicit drugs |
other than alcohol detected. |
During the time period investigated, |
there was a marked decrease in the number of victims with pentazocine and |
tripelennamine («Ts and blues») detected and an abrupt increase in the number |
of victims with detectable phencyclidine and cocaine levels. |
Further studies |
are needed to investigate risk factors for homicide victimization so that |
effective intervention strategies can be employed. |