《Back When I Was 4》歌词

[00:00:00] Back When I Was 4 - Jeffrey Lewis/Jack Lewis/Anders Griffen

[00:00:01] Back when I was 4 and I knew the

[00:00:03] Name of every dinosaur

[00:00:04] I knew how to read ROM comic books

[00:00:06] My babysitter said I was really smart

[00:00:08] When the lights went out everything changed

[00:00:10] The radio music made me feel strange

[00:00:13] And I had a real bad dream about

[00:00:14] A gorilla in the bathroom

[00:00:17] Back when I was 6 and

[00:00:18] I took some things real serious

[00:00:20] And I thought that every

[00:00:22] Song that came on the radio

[00:00:24] Was referring to strange sexual acts

[00:00:27] Because they thought I wouldn't know the facts

[00:00:29] And being small is hard and

[00:00:31] No one ever tells you how

[00:00:33] And back when I was 8 I

[00:00:35] Would sit outside on an old milk crate

[00:00:37] And look out at the world from

[00:00:39] The stoop across the street

[00:00:40] The boomboxes and the hot concrete

[00:00:43] And every Halloween they hung

[00:00:45] A million rubber skeletons across ninth street

[00:00:49] And back when I was 12 or so

[00:00:51] I swear to god I never felt so low

[00:00:53] Everyone but me was

[00:00:54] Making out and eating cookies

[00:00:57] I had more than my brain could stand

[00:00:59] I threw my life in a garbage can

[00:01:01] I felt so weird

[00:01:02] I had to disappear

[00:01:02] In crying suicide disease

[00:01:05] At 15 getting stoned felt good

[00:01:07] And it sent me back to childhood

[00:01:09] And nothing ever mattered to me more than that

[00:01:12] But then 16 became eclipse

[00:01:15] My brain became apocalypse

[00:01:16] I was lost and found and

[00:01:18] I've never been the same

[00:01:21] And back when I was 22

[00:01:22] I left the best thing that I knew

[00:01:24] And I gave it up for fortune and for fame

[00:01:29] I played like I didn't know how

[00:01:30] I shocked the world

[00:01:32] I wowed the crowd

[00:01:33] But I deserved more than what they gave

[00:01:37] Back when I was 27 still nothing had been forgiven

[00:01:40] Clay turns into rock and rock just sits

[00:01:45] So sitting on a crowded beach

[00:01:46] I'd pretend I was a leech

[00:01:48] And I'd stick to things here and there for a little bit

[00:01:53] And back when I was 31 I knew

[00:01:54] I'd become what I'd become

[00:01:56] Nothing left to reveal

[00:01:58] And there was nowhere else to turn

[00:02:00] So shocked and withered dumb and bitter

[00:02:02] And in need of a babysitter

[00:02:04] I'd gladly let my hand fall off and burn burn burn

[00:02:09] Back when I turned the big 4-0

[00:02:11] I realized just how much there was to go

[00:02:13] And I started to think that being alone forever

[00:02:15] Wasn't where it was at

[00:02:17] So I took my head out of the window

[00:02:18] And I taught myself how to love real fast

[00:02:20] I started talking about painting

[00:02:22] With a woman in the laundromat

[00:02:25] And back when I was 50

[00:02:26] And my first wife had just left me

[00:02:29] I felt okay and I sang my daughter

[00:02:31] Funny little songs

[00:02:33] And just when I thought the best was past

[00:02:35] I fell in love for real at last

[00:02:37] And it didn't even matter

[00:02:38] That it had taken me so long

[00:02:41] And back when I was 63 the public rediscovered me

[00:02:44] My comic books and albums had

[00:02:46] All become rare cult-collector items

[00:02:48] And both my parents were deceased

[00:02:51] So they didn't see my records get re-released

[00:02:53] And I got a dog for the first time in my life

[00:02:57] And back when I was 74 my

[00:02:59] Dog died and I got two more

[00:03:01] I still felt really good about my daughter

[00:03:03] And also about my girlfriend

[00:03:05] And I would sing and draw a little bit

[00:03:07] But mostly I'd just wake up early and sit

[00:03:09] And hang out with the puppies

[00:03:11] And wish that I could live forever

[00:03:13] And back when I was 87 and my

[00:03:15] Grandson had just turned eleven

[00:03:17] My woman was dead

[00:03:18] And my dogs were getting pretty old

[00:03:21] My body didn't work quite like it should

[00:03:23] But overall things were pretty good

[00:03:25] I was getting decent royalties

[00:03:26] From the reissued comic books and records

[00:03:29] And back when I was 106

[00:03:34] My only friend

[00:03:36] Was one goldfish

[00:03:40] Everyone I ever knew was dead and gone

[00:03:47] And the goldfish never had a name

[00:03:51] And the neighbors thought I was insane

[00:03:56] And I flushed it down the toilet when

[00:03:59] I saw it floating upside down

[00:04:04] And back when I was 128 I'd sit

[00:04:06] Outside on an old milk crate

[00:04:09] And look out at the world

[00:04:10] From the stoop across the street

[00:04:13] The boomboxes and the hot concrete

[00:04:15] And every Halloween they hung

[00:04:16] A million rubber skeletons across ninth street

[00:04:21] Every Halloween they hung

[00:04:22] A million rubber skeletons

[00:04:24] Every Halloween they hung

[00:04:26] A million rubber skeletons

[00:04:28] Every Halloween they hung

[00:04:30] A million rubber skeletons