Scowling Crackhead Ian歌詞

[00:00.000] 作詞 : Jeffrey Lewis
[00:01.000] 作曲 : Jeffrey Lewis
[00:33.36]Scowling crackhead Ian
[00:36.82]I can't forget your face
[00:39.45]You were a foul human being
[00:42.93]Way back on St. Mark's Place
[00:46.20]A white thug when we were both poor
[00:49.52]A life struggling for one quarter more
[00:52.85]In sixth grade that's what you'd mug me for
[00:56.01]A switch blade pressed up to my jugular
[00:59.30]So I feared for my next
[01:01.23]Safe streets were few
[01:02.83]My nerves grew wrecked near the Second Avenue
[01:06.18]I soon learned how to steer clear of a crook or a crew
[01:09.59]And now I'm still here
[01:11.03]And look, so are you
[01:12.96]Forever you've been crackhead Ian
[01:15.94]It was your kid nickname if we spoke it
[01:19.23]You were an insane human being
[01:21.90]Whether you ever did or didn't really smoke it
[01:26.50]
[01:38.82]I'd know that tall thin bent-over stroll
[01:42.18]All sun burned and grim since ten or twelve years old
[01:45.68]I guess yesterday is gone
[01:47.15]Faces still intend our souls
[01:48.99]An I guess both our mom's places are still on rent control
[01:52.54]I was that wick, small, sad, sag, punier guy
[01:55.63]You was as big, tall and bad back in junior high
[01:58.97]No sight of someone's face has ever been scarier
[02:02.39]You'd come chase me from Street Fighter One or Space Harrier
[02:05.82]Hello again, crackhead Ian
[02:08.62]I still can't forget your foul face
[02:11.99]My fellow human being
[02:14.57]I know we're both still planted on St. Mark's Place
[02:18.38]We've lived our poor lives in close parallel
[02:21.37]Within this four or five blocks we both know so well
[02:25.01]You must have grew up near the former theater or old gross hotel
[02:28.57]I'm sure you're aware of me here, but oh I can't tell
[02:32.02]It seems you never outgrew your little preteen rage
[02:35.15]I still see you look so mean though now we are middle-aged
[02:38.47]I was eavesdropping last year at you laughing to tell
[02:41.76]About bashing some dude with a chair till he fell
[02:45.10]I slipped fast by you talking fear and our eyes would touch
[02:48.37]Drifting past by new mornings that it all changed so much
[02:51.81]I've never known your live story I'm sure it's rotten and tough
[02:55.24]But how long before these roles for us have gotten old enough?
[02:58.84]You must've had it so rough kid
[03:02.53]Well I wonder
[03:04.84]Forged by a tiny portion of love or fortune
[03:08.29]Goes lightning or goes thunder
[03:11.21]You're a bad one crackhead Ian
[03:14.77]A sad son and sunburned pig
[03:17.82]But of all the best kids seen downtown in our pre-teens
[03:21.19]It's just you and me left I think
[03:24.54]How long till you notice?
[03:27.80]How long until you shake my hand?
[03:30.92]How long until we're old man neighbours?
[03:34.20]Last tribesmen of the vanished plant
[03:37.37]We never even did exchange names
[03:40.67]You were an evil kid from Hades
[03:44.09]When we played these arcade games
[03:46.92]That made life great in the 80's
[03:51.77]Me and Ian
[03:55.05]Me and Ian
[03:56.92]Ryding into the night of an east-village dream with these games in the street and the head and...