I am sitting In the morning At the diner On the corner I am waiting At the counter For the man To pour the coffee And he fills it Only halfway And before
If you were to kill me now right here I would still look you in the eye And I would burn myself into your memory As long as you were still alive I would
If language were liquid it would be rushing in Instead here we are In a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be These words are too solid They
In the ironbound section near Avenue L where the Portuguese women come to see what you sell the clouds so low the morning so slow as the wires cut through
By day give thanks By night beware Half the world in sweetness The other in fear When the darkness takes you With her hand across your face Don't give
Solitude stands by the window She turns her head as I walk in the room I can see by her eyes, she's been waiting Standing in the slant of the late afternoon
My name is Calypso and I have lived alone I live on an island and I waken to the dawn A long time ago I watched him struggle with the sea I knew that
I came out of the darkness Holding one thing A small white wooden horse I'd been holding inside And when I'm dead If you could tell them this That what
Solitude stands by the window She turns her head as I walk in the room I can see by her eyes she's been waiting Standing in the slant of the late afternoon
译文: 维加,苏珊. 站在孤独.
My name is Calypso And I have lived alone I live on an island And I waken to the dawn A long time ago I watched him struggle with the sea I knew that
You come from far away With pictures in your eyes Of coffeeshops and morning streets In the blue and silent sunrise But night is the cathedral Where
If language were liquid It would be rushing in Instead here we are In a silence more eloquent Than any word could ever be These words are too solid
My name is Luka I live on the second floor I live upstairs from you Yes I think you've seen me before If you hear something late at night Some kind
If you were to kill me now right here I would still look you in the eye And I would burn myself into your memory as long as you were still alive I