[00:00.000] 作词 : Mark Kozelek
[00:01.000] 作曲 : Mark Kozelek
[00:14.66]Damn if I didn't just go walking and find some horses
[00:18.79]A man-made lake and some trees
[00:21.24]
[00:22.17]Came back to my room all covered in sweat
[00:25.53]Here at the Swiss Waldhaus Hotel
[00:27.71]
[00:29.03]Filled out an application for a work visa
[00:32.48]
[00:33.50]For Japan and Australia
[00:35.17]
[00:35.93]It's been a few weeks since I've left home
[00:38.91]And I feel out of place
[00:40.80]And out of my element
[00:42.18]
[00:43.62]I work from 7 at night
[00:46.06]Until 5 AM when the AD says "Wrap"
[00:49.42]
[00:50.55]And a runner named Fabio flashlights me back to my hotel
[00:55.29]Before the sun comes up
[00:57.64]Then I get in my bed
[00:59.26]
[00:59.98]And talk with my girl on the phone to the birds chirping
[01:03.54]
[01:04.37]How the hell did I end up playing myself in an Italian film
[01:08.31]
[01:09.05]Set in a ski town in Switzerland
[01:11.07]
[01:40.40]Damn if I didn't just go walk in the yard
[01:43.39]
[01:43.98]So alone on my night off
[01:46.96]
[01:47.81]I felt like Jimmy Page walking the mountains out behind Aleister Crowley's house
[01:54.00]
[01:54.99]It was too dark  and it got so cold
[01:57.46]
[01:58.34]That I turned back around
[02:00.61]Came back to my room  read Graham Nash's Wild Tales
[02:04.13]
[02:04.64]Til I fell asleep to the sound
[02:07.02]
[02:18.03]The sound of the birds
[02:19.25]
[02:22.25]The birds of Flims
[02:24.65]
[02:26.63]Yeah I've asked around
[02:28.12]
[02:30.00]But nobody knows the names of 'em
[02:32.91]
[02:35.61]Of the birds
[02:36.81]
[02:39.67]The birds of Flims
[02:41.89]
[02:44.14]Yeah I've asked around
[02:45.44]
[02:47.37]But nobody knows the names of 'em
[02:50.36]
[02:54.04]Damn if I didn't just go walking down the road
[02:57.07]When a girl named Veronica stopped me
[03:00.49]
[03:01.30]She said she was from Milan and that she recognized me from the film
[03:05.36]And that today was her birthday
[03:07.43]
[03:08.45]We talked a little bit
[03:09.89]But there was a barrier
[03:11.00]And she went one way and I went the other
[03:14.85]And I walked along the dandelions and down to market
[03:18.65]
[03:19.88]Where I bought her some flowers
[03:21.98]
[03:22.78]On the way back to my hotel
[03:24.66]I left them in the lobby of hers  with a note
[03:26.96]"Veronica  happy birthday - Mark"
[03:29.20]And when I saw her again on the set
[03:31.57]She said "Grazie"  and I could tell the gesture
[03:34.64]Had touched her heart
[03:36.63]Damn if I didn't go to dinner last night with Paul
[03:39.87]But his throat was sore
[03:41.33]And I could see that he was feeling ill
[03:43.46]He spends more time on the set than I do
[03:46.15]And it's cold out there
[03:47.26]And the last two days  he was playing Hitler
[03:51.52]I could see he was grappling with that
[03:53.88]And I felt bad  and I gave him some words of support
[03:57.40]And we talked about John Hughes movies  home ownership
[04:00.38]And the cost of living in San Francisco and New York
[04:05.02]And damn if I didn't go out later with a set dresser
[04:08.99]Or something like that
[04:10.64]Named Cipriana
[04:12.43]We talked for four hours at a bar down the street
[04:15.02]And the music was terrible
[04:16.18]But yeah  I liked her  kinda
[04:18.86]
[04:19.62]She's been with someone for four or five years
[04:21.72]And I kinda figured that anyhow  and told her "Well  so have I"
[04:26.24]And that made life easier for both of us
[04:28.27]And I walked her drunk a** back to her room
[04:30.67]And like a gentleman  I didn't try
[04:33.52]
[04:43.92]And I went to my room
[04:45.41]
[04:47.27]I looked down at the waterfront
[04:49.49]
[04:52.52]From my balcony I felt
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[04:56.08]The surrealness of my surroundings
[04:59.36]
[05:01.42]I got in my bed
[05:02.78]
[05:04.70]Looked up at the baby blue ceilings above
[05:07.73]
[05:10.30]And thought of my home
[05:11.78]
[05:12.45]And my girl
[05:13.40]
[05:13.91]And I ached for her love
[05:15.99]
[06:16.80]Damn when it all ended
[06:18.36]If I didn't have them fly me out
[06:21.77]To New Orleans
[06:23.53]
[06:24.14]Where I saw kitty cats sleeping on porches
[06:27.10]And drank real iced tea for the first time in six to eight weeks
[06:31.27]It was nice not having to walk down that awkward path again
[06:35.04]And not to have to yell or to holler
[06:37.88]About eating pasta pomodoro for the 38th time in a month
[06:41.88]If its price was 60 Swiss f**kin' francs
[06:45.59]Damn if I didn't go walking the next afternoon
[06:48.41]
[06:49.47]Down Oretha Castle
[06:51.50]I ate a catfish lunch at Cafe Reconcile
[06:55.52]With a side of macaroni and cheese
[06:57.56]And cornbread and collard greens
[06:59.34]
[06:59.96]Saw it advertised on channel 99
[07:03.06]
[07:03.85]The public access channel
[07:05.91]
[07:06.48]And I walked across the street to a gym
[07:08.58]And I watched two fighters spar
[07:09.84]And I talked to them during their break
[07:11.46]While they sipped on their Snapple
[07:13.12]
[07:14.38]And I thought  what is life if not a fight
[07:17.87]Or a test of will and grace
[07:20.24]
[07:21.05]Some would match it by throwing bombs like Mike Tyson
[07:24.59]But some  like Pernell  are slippery and win cleverly
[07:26.97]
[07:28.04]Some are fearless like Gatti
[07:30.09]But like Henry Akinwande
[07:31.11]
[07:32.29]Some of them buckle and stall
[07:34.25]
[07:35.20]When the going gets tough  with much due respect
[07:37.60]Some of them break down and cry
[07:39.22]Like Oliver "The Atomic Bomb" McCall
[07:42.59]Life's a chess game for all of us
[07:44.83]Hit  don't be hit  jab and hook and feint and bob and weave
[07:48.41]
[07:49.09]When the fighters got back in the ring
[07:51.11]I thought of my own fight in life
[07:52.80]And it was time to be leaving
[07:55.17]
[07:56.59]And damn if I didn't go to the airport
[07:59.13]And fly up to Cleveland  Ohio
[08:03.37]I had dinner at Sylvester's in North Canton with my girlfriend and her friends
[08:06.79]And for the first time in a while
[08:08.61]I was surrounded by genuine smiles (beautiful smiles)
[08:11.44]There at the table with all of them  I felt content
[08:13.96]
[08:15.00]And grounded and rooted again
[08:17.42]And was dropped off to face the hardships
[08:20.03]Of a single mom who happens to be one of my closest and dearest friends
[08:22.93]
[08:25.23]Fell asleep in her spare room to the sound of crop dusters
[08:28.19]
[08:29.24]And cars on the highway
[08:30.67]
[08:32.13]Back to my roots where unconditional love
[08:34.65]Rules over everything
[08:35.96]And I could no longer hear the birds of Flims