Vi Azoy?-Daniel Kahn/the Painted Bird

[00:05.226]Vi azoy un mit vos vestu filn [00:10.664]Dayn bekher in tog fun bafrayung? [00:16.031]Bistu greyt in dayn freyd tsu darfiln [00:21.625]Dayn fargangenhayts fintstere shrayung [00:27.060]Vu es glivern sharbns fun teg [00:32.684]In a tom on a grunt, on a dek? [00:38.131]Vu es glivern sharbns fun teg [00:43.385]In a tom on a grunt, on a dek? [00:51.348]Du vest zukhn a shlisl tsu pasn [00:57.170]Far dayne farhakte shleser. [01:02.751]Vi broyt vestu baysn di gasn [01:08.097]Un trakhtn: der frier iz beser [01:13.731]Un di tsayt vet dikh ekbern shtil [01:19.084]Vi in foyst a gefangene gril [01:24.113]Un di tsayt vet dikh ekbern shtil [01:29.493]Vi in foyst a gefangene gril [01:37.100]Well, how, & with what will you fill [01:43.237]Your cup after your liberation? [01:48.875]In your joy, are you ready to feel [01:54.083]All of yesterday's dark lamentation? [01:59.382]Where the days have congealed into skulls [02:04.886]In a bottomless, endless abyss? [02:10.589]Where the days have congealed into skulls [02:16.060]In a bottomless, endless abyss? [02:24.103]You'll search for the key to your door [02:29.456]Whose locks are all shattered & dead [02:35.401]And you'll think: it was better before [02:40.474]As you chew on the sidewalk like bread [02:45.810]& the time gnaws you silent & numb [02:51.277]Like a cricket held inside your fist [02:55.769]& the time gnaws you silent & numb [03:01.451]Like a cricket held inside your fist [03:55.405]Un s'vet zayn dayn zikorn geglikhn [04:00.718]Tsu an alter farshotener shtot. [04:06.572]Un dayn droysiker blik vet dort krikhn [04:11.333]Vi a krot, vi a krot - - - - - - [04:17.059]& your memories will all be compared [04:22.573]To a buried, forgotten old town [04:27.791]& your outsider eyes they will stare [04:33.604]Like a mole going down, going down. . .