Where We Live-Palehound

[00:00.000] 作曲 : Ellen Kempner [00:00.46]Where we live [00:02.39]Beneath the frozen lake [00:03.94]Our hands reach out to each other [00:05.70]Like we're telling a story [00:07.51]A good one [00:08.39]A funny one [00:09.37]About the people who have wronged us [00:11.26]One that we rehearsed earlier [00:12.91]In the time before this [00:14.36]While we were still getting ready in the shower or in front of the mirror [00:19.16]And we look good, we look really good considering everything [00:23.55]My mom’s hands look elegant and tiny [00:25.61]My sisters' asses are tight [00:27.49]And their eyeliner is identical [00:29.60]And our hair is flowing behind us, still and dark [00:32.78]And their heels hold onto their toes [00:34.85]Like a person at the edge of a window [00:36.91]And my boots are cutting into my ankles [00:38.97]And we are noiseless and hard [00:41.44]The hot blueberry casserole before it drops on the ground [00:44.82]The bad news before it breaks [00:47.07]The eyelash swimming behind the eyeball that makes us wink [00:50.38]And down there with us, I guess there's a bottle [00:53.36]And I guess there’s a red cloud of wine always on the edge of enveloping us [00:57.03]And up above the men hook worms onto the end of hooks [01:00.74]And cast their lines into the cold grey [01:03.47]And whistle as they wait [01:05.46]And we stay below in the dark [01:08.09]With our mouths open because we are in the middle of saying something [01:11.50]Or in the middle of stopping one another [01:13.98]And I am just about to touch the ice [01:16.46]I'm just about to make it crack [01:18.72]I'm just about to get us out of here [01:21.24]But nothing ever changes [01:23.47]The ducks don't come back [01:25.37]The men go home to their fires [01:27.54]And the woman they chose [01:29.34]And the sun stays hiding [01:31.36]The trees hugging the lake stay naked [01:33.62]And they shake from the wind