Barefoot In New York-Arthur Russell

[00:00.000] 作曲 : Charles Arthur Russell Jr. [00:02.051]I really wanted to stay awake [00:04.715]I was trying to stay awake [00:07.745]And it was about 7 o'clock on Sunday Morning [00:14.772]Been up all night [00:16.784]Knew I had to finish my work [00:20.232]I knew I had to [00:20.806]As I looked out my window it was [00:24.411]Bright sunlight on the orange bricks of the next building [00:30.132]Very bright sight somehow reflecting [00:34.547]And through the window if I was able to understand [00:37.760]I guess why I couldn't stay awake [00:41.835]It was not conscious [00:43.533]Before I realized I couldn't stay awake anymore [00:47.347]But now it's even worse than before [00:51.056]I was listening to a tape of a lecture on Buddhism [00:59.311]At which I was present [01:02.184]I heard myself asking a lot of stupid questions [01:09.682]I was thickheaded at the lecture [01:11.824]Sitting there on the floor [01:13.522]But to hear it all now it's even worse than before [01:17.518]Those shoes I had were some name I can't remember [01:24.728]I found them in a wastebasket about to be emptied [01:29.561]They're mostly the only shoes I wear [01:31.285]When I found them they had been worn [01:33.348]The bottoms were worn off [01:38.103]Worn off on the edges [01:39.618]They were mostly in good shape [01:40.637]I found that they fit me [01:43.249]I was very happy [01:44.868]There was something about them that sticks to the floor when I walk [01:51.791]It makes a noise [01:53.672]I kept wearing them [01:54.978]They got wet many times and now the stitches holding them together on the sides is coming apart [02:02.658]Everywhere [02:03.886]And you can see my colored socks in the hole where they come apart [02:09.763]But they stick to the floor when I walk still [02:12.663]Very noticeable [02:14.073]I stepped in some sticky stuff [02:15.275]Spilled by the door [02:17.339]Since then it's even worse than before [02:21.780]On Broadway one night [02:25.541]There was this fairly high pitched, loud tone that sounded like a siren [02:32.490]People were looking around to see where it came from [02:38.106]The food store on the corner provided a lot of the light [02:43.252]Because it was open [02:45.525]Pretty soon I realized that the sound was coming from [02:52.369]The hood of this one car that was parked on the street nearby [02:56.940]It was empty and locked as you walked toward it [03:02.792]And became even louder [03:06.135]I first noticed the sound when I walked past the store [03:10.184]But now it's even worse than before [03:13.998]I really wanted to show somehow how things deteriorate [03:20.320]Or how one bad thing leads to another [03:24.500]At first there were plenty of things to point to [03:28.862]Lots of people, places, things, ideas [03:32.336]Turning to shit everywhere [03:35.157]I could describe these instances [03:37.848]But the more I thought about them [03:40.722]The less they seemed to be negative things [03:44.065]But appeared in the scenes as something completely new and productive [03:47.905]And I couldn't talk about them in the same way [03:52.633]But I knew it was true that there really are [03:59.634]Dangerous crises [04:00.757]Growing in many different places [04:03.918]That I was blind to them [04:10.867]Once it was easy to find something to deplore [04:14.420]But now it's even worse than before [04:18.207]The question is whether or not [04:21.473]This kind of music is going to hypnotize you [04:26.044]Do you resent being made to listen to [04:29.597]This monotonous music [04:33.358]Or having to listen to [04:35.553]Such boring sentences [04:36.728]Friends have said that by producing this kind of music [04:41.378]People are put to sleep [04:45.140]In fact, I've always thought this too [04:47.752]I've always disliked the Rolling Stones [04:49.920]Since I found out what they were up to [04:53.499]So when the prospect of doing this very hypnotic music came to my mind [05:01.231]I realized that I should at least bring up the problems of listening to this kind of rhythm [05:06.090]That is, regularity may temporarily take your mind of the more important tasks we have [05:13.195]I had to decide if it was in our best interest to present this [05:21.554]But now that I went ahead and did it after asking what it was for [05:24.506]Now it's even worse than before [05:27.327]