《So What If I Couldn’t Take It》歌词

[00:00:00] So What If I Couldn't Take It - Jeffrey Lewis

[00:00:11] So what if I just couldn't take it anymore

[00:00:15] I'll just take a walk to the store

[00:00:17] Looking for a bit of bottled rat poison to score

[00:00:21] And I'll pour down my gullet to nullify the sullenness

[00:00:24] If it's my destiny to kill me spill it in me

[00:00:27] To begin to fulfill it give it a couple of minutes until it hits

[00:00:33] But still it doesn't seem to be taking effect

[00:00:36] I'm still walking erect what the heck what the hell

[00:00:39] Well at least I paid the guy with a cheque

[00:00:42] So if the Bodega janked me on the poison I drank

[00:00:45] All I gotta do is place a cancel call to my bank

[00:00:48] But they put me on hold when I told them the story

[00:00:51] First I cursed in the phone but the music ignored me

[00:00:53] And it played and it played for such a long time

[00:00:59] And then a voice said "we'll be with you soon just stay on the line"

[00:01:02] But just at that second my neck broke out in a sweat

[00:01:05] I said "I bet this is it - the poison's starting to hit"

[00:01:06] I felt sick and in pain I dropped the phone to the ground

[00:01:12] And an operator came and said "can I help you now "

[00:01:15] But all that she could hear was just the sound of my death as I gasped into the set

[00:01:19] "Just let the guy cash the cheque" with my last rattling breath

[00:01:21] And the burning bottle of crap that I sickly held in my lap

[00:01:26] I quickly turned on the cap out of concern for the rats

[00:01:31] So what if I just couldn't take it anymore

[00:01:43] So what if I just couldn't take it anymore

[00:01:47] I'll just take the decision to walk on the bridge and try to fly like a pigeon

[00:01:53] And I tramp up the ramp and all the bicycles pass

[00:01:56] And I just can't help but laugh when I think back on my past

[00:01:59] And all of the retarded mistakes that I made

[00:02:01] The broken-hearted dismay that started from the first grade all the way up to today

[00:02:05] And the walkway is steep and the cars are all beeping

[00:02:10] And the people are sailing to wherever they're sailing

[00:02:13] And I'm climbing the railings

[00:02:16] I plan to stand and decide but I just slip and I dive

[00:02:21] And all the drunks on the side start to hold up their signs

[00:02:24] Mostly 7s and 9s but now and then is a 10

[00:02:26] And if I fell to earth I'd be dead that's for sure

[00:02:31] But like I said before it's only water

[00:02:33] And it's worthless 'cos it isn't on purpose

[00:02:35] But I bob to the surface

[00:02:39] But a large garbage barge comes

[00:02:44] And it drops 20 tonnes of toxic waste on my face

[00:02:47] And as I sink from the sun to whatever's to come

[00:02:50] My last sight is the Bums who all change their signs into 3s 2s and 1s

[00:02:55] And then after this discourse

[00:02:56] There's a 3 6 - of course it must be from Pitchfork

[00:02:59] So what if I just couldn't take it anymore

[00:03:13] So what if I just couldn't take it anymore

[00:03:17] Staring down at the floor staring up at the ceiling

[00:03:19] 'Cos I never get used to always feeling so unglued

[00:03:22] Need new emails to read through while I eat old Chinese food

[00:03:27] I don't want a life that's like this just take a knife to my wrist quick

[00:03:29] All I've got is this chopstick but I could still make the plot thick

[00:03:32] Just for the sake of context if I break it with my fist

[00:03:35] For fun against my chest run into the wall next

[00:03:39] And I'll frown at the gash then lie down in the bath with some Sylvia Plath

[00:03:43] How many pages will pass until I'm facing my last

[00:03:46] I didn't major in Math so I won't wager no cash

[00:03:51] But truth is stranger than fashion

[00:03:52] And the danger is that all of the blood will amass

[00:03:54] And the tub will fill-up so fast

[00:03:56] 'Til I'm encased like a crab in a bathtub-shaped scab

[00:03:58] They'll have to take in a cab and scrape off in a lab

[00:04:03] So what if I just couldn't take it anymore

[00:04:15] So what if I just couldn't take it anymore

[00:04:20] I'll just call up the Mob and say

[00:04:21] "I've got you a job I guess you know what to do

[00:04:24] Knock off this guy with the blues - an offer you can't refuse"

[00:04:27] And I'll fax them a contract through a third-party contact that says

[00:04:32] 'Don't hold him for ransom I'll pay half in advance

[00:04:35] Just mail me one of his hands which I'll accept as your answer'

[00:04:38] So say it so happens:

[00:04:41] I happen to be out lying on a park bench and crying just like my normal way

[00:04:45] But in most former cases no-one comes out of no place

[00:04:49] Wraps masking tape on my face

[00:04:52] But that's what happens today

[00:04:56] But before I get knocked off my hand it gets chopped off

[00:04:57] And dropped in a mailbox

[00:04:59] And I'm locked in a trunk

[00:04:59] But I'm flung out on the tar when the car hits a bump at exit one twenty-five

[00:05:02] Out on the FDR drive