Shapeless Man (feat Jordan Dreyer of La Dispute)

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作曲 : Atsushi Kiyota, Jordan Dreyer

Days of disappearance i ghost alone half-sleeping toward market street

Blend into a northwest fog the color of ash to watch the ships from ballard bridge

In dreams i fade upward

Head sky-bound and evaporate

Collecting in the heavy low clouds above me

Particle by particle

Becoming rain, becoming nothing

To fall

Down into the water below

Swept up in the currents flowing

Carried toward the open ocean mouth

Alone

Where i will like any other wave crest and dissipate into a greater one than i

Be swallowed in a body not my own

Without frame and drift weightlessly among everything else

Lost forever without shape

In spaces i once swam through

But you

You are still an image vivid

And from the bridge i see you in every ship split water wide open

Float on that formless indefinite mass

Where in all of my visions i have disintegrated

Pixel by pixel into nothingness

Or else i am still my body

And you are the bridge itself

Holding me up above that cold abyss

Somehow despite everything i did

Selfless with your stress and mine

But it should not be your responsibility to hold me up there or to bear any wight beyond your own

To be anxious in all ways and compensate for a faith i lacked in me not to break when i bent but i did

Because i was a waste and you were too patient with me too kind

Waiting for a shape to form

Returning again and again inexplicably to restore by hand what i once was and you knew somehow

But it never should have been your responsibility to fix me

Not now not ever

So why did you?

I should be the mist that shrouds the mountain range around you

Chased out with the winter when the spring comes in

You should have let me fade

And be separated particle by particle swirling in the ocean waves

Bodies aimless drifting without end again

Shapeless as the day that we first met

(days of disappearance i go and do not go anywhere without you

Settle in both low clouds and the flowers in our garden home

My silhouette a fixture on the kitchen bricks)