Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Possum, artist - Sun Kil Moon. Album song Universal Themes, in the genre Инди
Date of issue: 31.05.2015
Record label: Caldo Verde, Rough Trade
Song language: English
The Possum |
Yesterday, I was working in my yard when I saw a possum |
Swinging in the foothills and he was all beat up and hobbling |
I got a closer look and his foot was mangled |
I was woken up earlier by what I thought was the cat tangled |
But it was him who got it bad from the cat that night |
Slowly down the hill when he slipped under the fence |
I brought myself up to check him out; |
he found a nook under the air conditioner |
I pointed him out to Caroline, she crouched down and he was shaking and full of |
fear |
And when she stood up, I asked, «Baby, why you crying?» |
She said, «Because he’s cute and he’s down there and he’s dying» |
I went up to my room and I got a call from Justin |
He was in San Francisco and Godflesh was playing |
Caroline drove me halfway there where I met Tony |
And we drove to the city and we parked out in front of the DNA |
Justin and us, we had some laughs and we took photographs backstage |
And our guts were protruding and all of them and we just kept laughing and |
laughing |
and laughing and laughing and laughing and laughing and laughing |
Laughing and laughing and laughing and laughing and laughing and laughing and |
laughing |
Laughing and laughing and laughing and laughing and laughing and laughing and |
laughing |
Laughing and laughing and laughing and laughing and laughing and laughing and |
laughing |
And when Godflesh took the stage, Tony and I, we stood there floored |
Drum machines hammered and feedback blazed |
For a moment, everybody grew silent |
While Justin tuned his guitar; |
like a church, it got so quiet |
Just for a minute, and then they all soared together |
Like a car off a cliff, we crashed and burned over and over and again and again |
They threw hard vicious guttural B-flats that shook their opponent |
Like a tough Roberto «Hands of Stone"Durán in the seventh round |
Davey Moore June 16, 1983 |
Godflesh ran that line like an early Mark «Gator» Rogowski |
Justin lunged at the mic like a hungry great white |
He was on fire, giving it everything he had and killing it that night! |
Tearing out his prey and it came to a screeching halt |
A relentless and beautiful voice, a 70 minute assault |
And then he bowed down and he set his seven string electric guitar down |
And screeched to holy hell and they disappeared and off went the crowd |
Then we had pizza and I came back to my apartment in the city |
Until 4AM, I watched movies and my ears were ringing |
And I called Caroline out at the house |
We talked about the concert, about the possum down in the nook |
And the ocean air came through my window |
And the sound of foghorns, and then when I woke |
Godflesh was down in LA |
Tony had an open house that day |
And I looked out at Sausalito |
And Caroline was on her way back from Lake Tahoe |
I got a call from Paolo Sorrentino |
I’d be off to Switzerland in a week or so |
Caroline came home that night and we had dinner and watched HBO |
And I’m grateful for her love and for my friends |
And to have seen the possum walk its last walk among the ivy |
I want to grow old and to walk the last walk |
Knowing that I, too, gave it everything I got |
But again it’s all roadblocks and all obstacles I fought |
For to live another day is much better than to not |
And I’d like to die with music in my ears |
The piano of Maurice Ravel or Godflesh’s guttural growls from hell |
The sound that evokes good memories of being young and able to get around |
And I’d like Caroline beside me |
That old possum lost the fight |
His sad, black eyes; |
what a thing to see on a glowing Easter Sunday |
But that rodent was loved and he’s still thought of |
Church bells rang that day |
I remember hearing them in the afternoon just as we left |
He had to have heard them too |