the library (feat. Margo Seibert) - Dave Malloy/Margo Seibert.mp3

[00:00.000] 作词 : Dave Malloy
[00:00.743] 作曲 : Dave Malloy
[00:01.487]SUSAN
[00:02.177]​during the days
[00:04.674]​i’d drift through the rooms of my grandmama’s house
[00:08.591]​scuffling through closets and cupboards
[00:12.406]​excavating her mad collection
[00:14.899]​of knickknacks and relics and oddball curios
[00:20.528]​the house was packed
[00:22.376]​with hoardfuls of jewels and junk:
[00:25.436]​nautilus shells
[00:27.497]​metal matchbox cars
[00:29.397]​pamphlets and puzzles
[00:30.889]​and peculiar pastry tools
[00:35.478]​and a stunning exhibition
[00:38.518]​of devil and dragon and demon figurines
[00:43.249]​disturbing little icons
[00:45.295]​gathered from all around the world
[00:48.186]​there was this one cute green dragon that i loved:
[00:51.244]​a pūķis
[00:52.367]POOKIE (SADIE)
[00:52.712]​pook pook pook!
[00:53.793]SUSAN
[00:54.109]​a latvian household dragon that steals and hoards treasures for ​her master
[01:00.873]​legend said if you didn’t feed her for her services she would ​burn your house down
[01:04.810]​i named her pookie and put her on my nightstand
[01:06.801]POOKIE
[01:07.633]​hello miss susan!
[01:10.910]​i have such wonders to show you!
[01:13.617]​sweet precious trinkets and treasures!
[01:17.058]​look here, look here, look here, look here!
[01:21.756]SUSAN
[01:21.997]​vinyl!
[01:23.855]​a cobwebbed closet full of stacks of dusty vinyl
[01:28.406]​and a technics sp-10
[01:31.220]​i filled the house with music
[01:37.003]​i can play music
[01:38.644]​as loud as i want
[01:40.308]​there’s no one to tell me to turn it down
[01:44.182]​i danced and screamed:
[01:45.899]​i’m alone!
[01:46.737]​i’m alive!
[01:47.760]​i’m alright!
[01:51.615]​hank williams and patsy cline
[01:55.153]​nine recordings of winterreise
[01:58.397]​billie holiday, blood on the tracks
[02:02.259]​and rumours—
[02:02.674]POOKIE, BECKETT & WOLF
[02:03.358]​listen to the wind blow
[02:04.845]SUSAN
[02:05.903]​a curated collection for a broken heart
[02:09.145]WOLF
[02:09.755]{howl}
[02:11.562]SUSAN
[02:12.957]​and books
[02:14.811]​my god, this woman’s books
[02:18.025]​every room, floor to ceiling
[02:20.149]​with stacks and stacks of books
[02:23.583]​have you ever fallen in love with someone
[02:27.229]​by looking at their books?
[02:33.892]​but they were totally disorganized;
[02:35.459]​just chaos everywhere
[02:37.243]​my little ocd brain lit up
[02:38.786]​and i became a little librarian
[02:39.832]POOKIE
[02:40.073]​mmm yes please miss susan!
[02:43.614]​tidy tidy tidy!
[02:45.532]​pook pook pook!
[02:46.602]​tidy tidy!
[02:47.223]​pook pook pook!
[02:48.205]​tidy tidy!
[02:49.674]SUSAN (sorting books)
[02:49.984]​fiction, fiction, non-fiction, non-fiction
[02:52.265]​fiction, fiction, non-fiction, non-fiction
[02:54.544]​latvian, latvian, fiction, non-fiction
[02:56.738]​fiction, non-fiction, latvian, latvian
[02:58.567]​latvian, fiction, fiction, fiction
[03:00.748]​non-fiction—
[03:01.796]​non-fiction?
[03:04.413]​non-fiction is harder than fiction
[03:06.655]​after the first few days
[03:07.475]​i had them separated by room
[03:08.503]​and then
[03:09.506]​it was time to alphabetize:
[03:11.902]A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
[03:18.129]​nothing beats alphabetical order!
[03:20.983]A B C D
[03:22.895]A B C D
[03:24.921]A D G K J J H N M U
[03:28.481]​atwood, austen, bronte and bronte
[03:31.955]​didion, jackson—
[03:33.823]​so much good stuff!
[03:35.793]​butler, lessing, murdoch, morrison, oates
[03:38.526]​wharton—
[03:40.851]​and a surprising number of trashy romance novels
[03:43.993]​by danielle steele
[03:46.245]​there were men too
[03:47.172]​mostly sci-fi guys, beats, and poets:
[03:50.373]​bukowski, cummings, bradbury, kerouac, simic
[03:53.508]​poetry got its own section:
[03:55.058]​six solid shelves of thin modernist volumes
[03:57.510]​no collected works, always the original editions
[04:00.711]​in some of the books
[04:01.560]​i would find newspaper clippings of obituaries
[04:04.250]​on raymond carver’s she had written “a sad day.”
[04:08.731]​“a sad day”
[04:11.971]​in green sharpie
[04:16.510]​plays—not that many plays
[04:19.818]​but non-fiction, oh man—
[04:21.820]​grandmama’s interests were all over the place
[04:24.244]​certain themes started to emerge:
[04:26.972]​landscape architecture, interior design
[04:30.249]​animism, trickster myths, and fairy tales;
[04:34.610]​including several lavishly illustrated editions
[04:38.403]​of the three little pigs
[04:40.414]​erotica and polyamory—grandmama!
[04:45.155]​jungian psychology
[04:46.915]​drugs and disease
[04:48.485]​mental health
[04:50.677]​autobiographies by people who’d tried to take their lives
[04:54.205]​and biographies of people who did
[04:56.832]​depression runs in my family
[05:00.561]​depression and addiction
[05:02.944]POOKIE
[05:03.462]​miss susan?
[05:04.494]​what’s this?
[05:05.165]SUSAN
[05:06.370]​i suppose i should also mention here
[05:08.204]​that during this time in latvia
[05:09.817]​i had with me an absolutely atrocious amount of weed