[00:00.000] 作词 : Jens Lekman
[00:00.372] 作曲 : Jens Lekman
[00:00.744]October 27th, 2018
[00:04.637]I'm writing you one last time Annika Norlin
[00:08.398]It was nice to see you that morning at the station
[00:13.414]I'm sure you were a warrior in a previous incarnation
[00:17.750]Me, I must've been a rabbit or an ostrich
[00:21.564]Or a pile of trembling leaves sown together with cross stitch
[00:26.344]My anxiety has been holding me hostage
[00:30.733]I've developed this problem with a really tough itch
[00:35.226]I went to the clinic to get a prescription
[00:39.667]Cried a little in front of the physician
[00:43.925]Ointments and sedatives and antibiotics
[00:48.183]Went home with a bag full of legal *********
[00:52.624]The best is the sedatives, they work well but softly
[00:56.699]I don't scratch myself in sleep, I pass out like a baby
[01:01.348]When I wake up I'm rested, l'm calm and happy
[01:05.711]The only bad thing is the strange dreams that haunt me
[01:10.100]I'm deep in the woods, in a village with tipi's
[01:14.331]The branches from old oak trees hang heavy
[01:18.877]A woman carrying a baby greets me says she's glad that I came, she's been trying to reach me
[01:27.471]She shows me around, the villagers are happy
[01:31.886]they give me some wine and flowers to greet me
[01:35.830]their society's based on a loose form of anarchy
[01:40.558]they've dealt with the climate ,injustice and patriarchy
[01:44.477]Cause this is the future I can tell from their technology
[01:49.335]But they use it for good and they use it so sparsely
[01:53.672]They are not but slaves under their own machinery
[01:58.086]The cogwheels turn only when they think it's necessary
[02:02.266]And the woman grabs my arm and she looks me in the eye
[02:06.707]She's contacted me cause she's worried about our time
[02:11.200]This future is oniy one of many lines
[02:15.536]That we can potentially walk down
[02:19.220]you and I
[02:23.869]When I wake up I giggle cause it seems kinda cringey
[02:28.597]I think about their village, what abunch of ****ing hippies
[02:32.934]This must be because I read that book by Marge Piercy
[02:37.348]Where some people from the future make contact with Connie
[02:41.737]A woman in a mental institution in the seventies
[02:45.995]and show her their world that's one of many possibilities
[02:50.384]And instill in her the hope to fight for humanity
[02:54.824]I loved that book, but as a document of history
[02:59.108]Cause now it seems strange to hope for anything at all
[03:03.497]When every step forward seems infinitely small
[03:07.729]Save the polar caps from melting by recycling milkbuttles
[03:12.013]While the CEO's are flying their pets to skilodges
[03:16.663]How vulnerable it is when someone says what they want
[03:20.895]Instead of just saying what they don't want
[03:25.309]How easy it is to laugh at someone's utopia
[03:29.620]after decades of being spoonfed dystopia
[03:35.732]I rub my cortison ointment on my eczema
[03:40.617]I take my sedatives and crawl up to the heater
[03:44.875]Keep treating the outside, ignoring the inside
[03:49.133]Keep treating the symptoms, not the root of the problems
[03:53.731]And in my next dream the woman's back again
[03:58.328]This time she's shouting cause her signal is fading
[04:02.116]I wake up sweating, my skin is itching
[04:06.713]I put some ice on it and sit down in the kitchen
[04:11.128]And outside the leaves are slowly falling
[04:15.229]Over pigeons, buildings, CEO's and children
[04:19.931]I'm gripped by a love for this world that we live in
[04:24.242]And I think about a quote from Ursula Le Guin:
[04:27.951]"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable.
[04:33.045]So did the divine right of kings.
[04:37.355]Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings"
[04:45.584]There's a dying Iight in the distance that beckons
[04:50.416]As the clocks are rapidly running out of seconds
[04:54.883]This is where I get off I reckon
[04:58.906]Take care of yourself, your friend
[05:01.414]Jens Lekman