Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Welcome to Sparks, artist - Sun Kil Moon. Album song Welcome to Sparks, Nevada, in the genre Инди
Date of issue: 25.11.2020
Record label: Caldo Verde
Song language: English
Welcome to Sparks |
Roadtrip to Sparks, Nevada |
I walked into the bus station, there was a payphone in there |
It didn’t work, but it was nice to look at |
Enclosed in vintage ash, nostalgia, nostalgia |
Payphones saved my ass so many times when I was young |
Saved me from getting mugged over at the corner of Turk and something |
Rain was pouring and guys were closing in on me and my new year’s flame |
I told her, «make a call fast, I got your back"and within a minute, |
up pulled a taxi |
Well, the funny payphone memories from when I was younger and dumber |
I once called my dad from a roadside payphone in Tennesee when I’d fallen in |
love |
I told him, «Dad, I’ve fallen in love and I’m getting married.» |
He humored me and said, «How long have you known her?» |
He was chuckling |
He said, «Well mark, let me know when you’ve planned your wedding.» |
A few weeks later I wasn’t with that girl no more |
I could hear in my dad’s voice on that payphone that I was a smitten, |
pussy-whipped kid |
I didn’t know it then, but my dad did because he was my dad, old and wise, |
and he knew me better than anyone else did |
From there, a short trip to Reno, Nevada |
The bus station was closed but I was so happy to see people of color gathering |
They were sitting on benches outside the bus station in downtown Reno |
The sun was glaring on the cement, contrasting with the fall of Sierra snow |
Cat mountain |
I saw three payphones inside but the cops wouldn’t let me in |
I said, «Can I please use the payphone and get a sip of water from the water |
fountain?» |
They said, «Hey you, move along.» |
And when I left I saw a nervous young man crying |
A lost soul with nowhere to go, he’d just been dropped off at the bus station |
People were advising him, telling him about small welcoming towns and making |
suggestions |
The cops said, «Everybody beat it. |
Everybody get lost now. |
Move along.» |
As I walked back, I said, «Hey my friend, here’s some cash, grab it quickly», |
and that he did |
Who knows what happened to him, maybe he found work on a privately owned exotic |
animal zoo |
Maybe he hitchhiked his way from Reno, Nevada to Kalamazoo, Michigan |
Maybe he’s traveling from bus station to bus station |
Maybe he’s fine, I heard a woman telling him that she’d pray for him |
And from there we drove to the Truckee River |
People were picnicking, happy as can be on that April afternoon |
I climbed half-way up an overhanging tree where I stood and took a picture of |
the slow-flowing Truckee river |
And from downtown Truckee, we drove through Donner Pass |
Where people ate each other up |
And further down the 8 to Emigrant Gap |
When we pulled in, there was a long cabin-like structure |
She parked while I stepped outside and took a peek and saw people watching a |
strange film |
The portion I saw was a close-up of a woman’s skin |
A kind man stepped outside and said, «How can I help you sir?» |
I said, «I saw a sign for a payphone at the exit.» |
He said, «That payphone’s been gone a long time.» |
I said, «What's going on in there?» |
He said, «We're showing a film because of our absent lecturer.» |
I said, «Is he absent because of certain guidelines?» |
And he said, «Yeah, we’re showing a film instead, maybe drop by another time» |
I said, «What is this place anyhow?» |
He said, «It's a rehabilitation center. |
A 13-month program ranging from people |
with drug and alcohol problems and also for people suffering with depression.» |
I said, «Now, that part interests me, now you’ve got my attention.» |
He told me the website when I left, he said «God bless you and safe travels man. |
I said, «What did you just say?» |
He said, «Yeah, that’s right, we’re a Christian-based program for 18 years old |
and older.» |
I said, «That's a very large age span.» |
He said, «Well, 18 is adult.» |
I said, «I see, just like prisons, when you’re 18 you share the same structure |
as senior citizens.» |
And I said, well, he knows, one day, he could have counted me in |
«I'm intrigued by the part about depression, but I’m not interested in the part |
about your religion |
Plus, it’s too close to where the Donner Party happened |
Plus, this place kind of reminds me of The Shining.» |
He said, «Well, nevermind you, I didn’t come to you, you came to me, |
you knocked on my door, I didn’t knock on yours.» |
And I got in the car and I asked Caroline, «Does this place strike you as the |
kind of place, with 13 months of time you’ll be healing |
Or does it strike you as sort of cult-y, in that kind of time when the |
snowbound place could mess with your mind?» |
And from there we ended up in Colfax, and ordered pizza |
And we were mesmerized by a young lady twirling pizza dough |
And two lovebirds behind the counter were giggling flirting |
While working away on their many pizza orders to go |
Young love is so beautiful and painful and mysterious, wondering, |
where will it go? |
Will she go off to college and meet somebody new and break his heart while he’s |
back in Colfax sprinkling cheese on pizza dough? |
Will they have five children and live happily ever after in Colfax, who knows? |
Will they leave town in an old Honda Civic and get married somewhere along the |
Pacific |
And live in a house in Mendocino with a yard full of abalone shells? |
And get divorced, and she’s chasing him down for child support and alimony |
Well, young love is so beautiful and painful and mysterious, where will it go? |
Young love is so beautiful and painful and mysterious, where will it go? |
Young love is so beautiful and painful and mysterious, where will it go? |
I said, «Thank you, Caroline, for this road trip to Sparks and Reno |
It was nice to go to the American and Truckee rivers and skip stones |
And to see old payphones, and to drive along 6-foot high mounds of snow.» |