Tallahassee 歌詞 日本語訳

Tallahassee (2002)
タラハシー (2002)
The Mountain Goats
マウンテンゴート
All songs written by John Darnielle
全曲ジョン・ダーニエル作詞・作曲
1. Tallahassee
1. タラハシー
Chords:
コード:
G (355433) or (320033)
G (355433) または (320033)
(The G chord sounds like a barre chord mostly, but open sounds right sometimes)
(Gコードはほとんどバレーコードのように聞こえますが、オープンコードが正しく聞こえる場合もあります)
Bassline (repeated throughout)
ベースライン (全体で繰り返される)
Intro:
イントロ:
Window facing an ill-kept front yard
手入れの行き届いていない前庭に面した窓
Plums on the tree, heavy with nectar
木に実ったプラム、蜜がたっぷり
Prayers to summon the destroying angels
破壊の天使を呼び出す祈り
Moon stuttering in the sky like film stuck in a projector
映写機に突き刺さったフィルムのように空で途切れる月
And you
そしてあなたは
D (1 extra measure)
D（1小節追加）
You-oo-oo-oo-oo
おおおおおおおお
Post-verse:
ポストバース:
Twin prop airplanes passing loudly overhead
双発プロペラ飛行機が頭上を爆音を立てて通過していく
Road to the airport, two lanes clear
空港への道、二車線は空いています
Half the whole town, gone for the summer
町全体の半分が夏に去ってしまった
Terrible silence, coming down here
ひどい沈黙がここにやってくる
And you
そしてあなたは
D (1 extra measure)
D（1小節追加）
You-oo-oo-oo-oo
おおおおおおおお
(Post-verse)
(ポストヴァース)
There is no deadline,
期限はありませんが、
There is no schedule
スケジュールはありません
There is no plan we can fall back on
頼れる計画はない
The road this far can't be retraced
ここまでの道は引き返せない
There is no punchline
オチはない
Anybody can tack on
誰でもつけられます
There are loose ends by the score
スコアによってはルーズエンドがある
What did I come down here for?
私は何のためにここに来たのですか？
You
あなた
D (1 extra measure)
D（1小節追加）
You-oo-oo-oo-oo
おおおおおおおお
(Post-verse)
(ポストヴァース)
End with bassline.
ベースラインで終わります。
(1)Not so sure about that one A chord (D maybe?), but I like it so I use it.
(1)Aのコード（Dかな？）はよくわかりませんが、気に入ったので使用します。
(2)Sometimes (particularly at the end) he arpeggiates the chords:
(2) 時々 (特に最後に) 彼はコードをアルペジオします。
Or something to that effect.
あるいはそのような趣旨のもの。
(3)Also, toward the first half of the song, he likes to let the F# (xxxxx2)
(3)また、曲の前半ではF#(xxxxx2)を鳴らすのが好きです。
ring out sometimes.
時々鳴ります。
Just play around with it.
ちょっと遊んでみてください。
2. First Few Desperate Hours
2. 最初の数時間の絶望的な時間
Chords:
コード:
F# (244300)
F# (244300)
Intro:
イントロ:
E F# Asus2 x2
E F# Asus2 x2
Bad luck comes in from Tampa
不運はタンパからやってくる
Bad luck comes in from Tampa
不運はタンパからやってくる
On the back of a truck
トラックの後部に
Doing 90 up the interstate
州間高速道路を90号線で登る
We have bad dreams the night he rolls in
彼が転がり込んできた夜、私たちは悪い夢を見る
We have bad dreams the night he rolls in
彼が転がり込んできた夜、私たちは悪い夢を見る
And we try
そして私たちは試します
To keep our spirits high
精神を高く保つために
But they flag
しかし、彼らはフラグを立てます
And they wave
そして彼らは手を振ります
When the truck pulls up out front
トラックが前に出てくると
In the light spring rain
春の小雨の中
And they sag like whithering flowers
そしてそれらはしわが寄る花のように垂れ下がる
Let the good times roll -- on --
楽しい時間を過ごしましょう -- 続けて --
Through these first few desperate hours
最初の絶望的な数時間を乗り越えて
Yeah
そうだね
E F# Asus2 x4
E F# Asus2 x4
The driver drops his cargo at the curb
運転手は荷物を縁石に落とす
The driver drops his cargo at the curb
運転手は荷物を縁石に落とす
And the sun peeks in
そして太陽が覗いてくる
Like a killer through the curtain
カーテン越しの殺人者のように
And when cloven hoofprints turn up in the garden
そして、割れた蹄跡が庭に現れると、
And when cloven hoofprints turn up in the garden
そして、割れた蹄跡が庭に現れると、
We keep up the good fight
私たちは良い戦いを続けます
And keep our spirits light
そして私たちの精神を明るく保ちましょう
But they draw
でも彼らは絵を描く
Like flies
ハエのように
And there's a stomach-turning shift
そして、胃がひっくり返るような変化があります
In the way the land lies
土地が横たわる方法で
And they lean
そして彼らは傾いている
Like towers
塔のように
On a hillside struggling to stand
立ち上がるのも困難な丘の中腹で
Through these first few desperate hours
最初の絶望的な数時間を乗り越えて
Yeah
そうだね
E F# Asus2 x4
E F# Asus2 x4
End on E.
Eで終了。
(1)The rhythm is tricky, it should take some time to get down but it's not terribly difficult.
(1)リズムが難しく、落ち着くまでに時間がかかりますが、それほど難しくありません。
(2)The theory name for that F# chord would be something like F#7sus4, but that's a pain
(2)そのF#コードの理論名はF#7sus4のようなものですが、それは面倒です
to write.
書くこと。
3. Southwood Plantation Roads
3. サウスウッド プランテーション 道路
Chords:
コード:
Bassline:
ベースライン:
Intro:
イントロ:
I've got you
君がいるよ
You've got whatever's left of me to get
あなたは私に残っているものを何でも手に入れます
Our conversations are like minefields
私たちの会話は地雷原のようです
No one's found a safe way through one yet
まだ誰も安全な道を見つけていない
I spend a lot of money
お金をたくさん使ってしまう
I buy ya white gold
ホワイトゴールドを買います
We raise up a little roof
少し屋根を上げる
Against the cold
寒さ対策
On Southwood Plantation Road
サウスウッド・プランテーション・ロード沿い
Where at night the stars blow like milk across the sky
夜になると星がミルクのように空を横切る場所
Where the high wires drop
高いワイヤーが落ちる場所
Where the fat crows fly
太ったカラスが飛ぶ場所
All night long
一晩中
You giggle and scream
あなたは笑いながら叫ぶ
Your brown eyes
あなたの茶色の目
Deeper than a dream
夢よりも深い
I am not gonna lose you
私はあなたを失うつもりはありません
We are gonna stay married
私たちは結婚生活を続けるつもりです
In this house like a Louisiana graveyard
ルイジアナ州の墓地のようなこの家で
Where nothing stays buried
何も埋もれていない場所
On Southwood Plantation Road
サウスウッド・プランテーション・ロード沿い
Where the dead will walk again
死者が再び歩く場所
Put on their sunday best
日曜日にベストを尽くす
And mingle with unsuspecting Christian men
そして疑うことを知らないクリスチャン男性たちと交わる
La-la-la-la-la
ララララララ
End on A.
Aで終了。
The Dm is quick, about half a normal measure. Listen for it.
Dm は迅速で、通常の半分程度です。聞いてください。
4. Game Shows Touch Our Lives
4. ゲーム番組は私たちの生活に影響を与える
Chords:
コード:
Intro:
イントロ:
Dug up a fifth of Hood River gin and
フッド・リバー・ジンの5分の1を掘り出し、
That stuff tastes like medicine
あれは薬のような味がする
But I'll take it, it'll do
でも、私はそれを受け入れます、それはうまくいきます
On the couch in the living room all day long
一日中リビングのソファで
Music on the television playing our song
テレビで私たちの歌を流している音楽
I'm in the mood, the mood for you
私は気分がいい、あなたの気分がいい
Turn the volume up real high
音量をかなり上げてください
And all of that money, look at it fly
そしてそのお金がすべて飛んでいくのを見てください
And you smoking, like a chimney
そしてあなたは煙突のように煙を吸っています
Shadows crawled across the living room's length
影がリビングルームの縦横に這い回った
I held onto you with a desperate strength
必死の強さで君にしがみついた
With everything, with everything in me
すべてとともに、私の中のすべてとともに
And I handed you a drink of the lovely little thing
そして私はあなたに素敵な小さなものの飲み物を渡しました
On which our survival depends
私たちの生存がかかっているのは
People say friends don't destroy one another,
友達はお互いを破壊し合わないと人は言いますが、
What do they know about friends?
彼らは友達について何を知っているのでしょうか？
Thunderclouds forming, cream white moons
雷雲が発生し、クリーム色の白い月が現れる
Everything's gonna be okay soon
すべてがうまくいく
Maybe tomorrow, maybe the next day
Carried you up the stairs that night
All of this could be yours, if the price is right
I heard cars heading down to oblivion,
Up on the expressway
Your drunken kiss is as light as the air
Maybe everything that falls down eventually rises
Our home sinking into disrepair,
Ah, but look at this showroom
Filled with fabulous prizes
End on G.
Emphasize the high notes (xxxx33) during the G, C9 and F9 chords.
5. The House That Dripped Blood
Play the chords like this:
E (022100) strummed normally
Intro:
Look beyond the broken bottles
Past the rotting wooden stairs
Root out the wine-dark honeyed center
Not everyone can live like millionaires
Look through the air-thinned walls
Tear up the floorboards, strip the paint
Go over every inch of space
With the patience of a saint
Grab your hat, get your coat
The cellar door,
Is an open throat
Look past the kitchen cabinets
Go through the chest of drawers
Scrutinize the casements
Rip the varnish off the doors
Dig up the laughing photographs
They're here somewhere or other
Take what you can carry
But let me tell your brother
Still waters go stagnant, bodies bloat
The cellar door,
Is an open throat
B D A B x4 with harmonica solo
Last time strike A 3 times slowly, and end on B.
6. Idylls of the King
Chords:
G-D:
Intro:
us4
This place
With its old plantations
These roads leading out to the sea
This day,
Full of promise and potential
More clay pidgeons for you and me
(Chorus)
Oh all of them, all of them
All of them, all of them
All of them, all of them, all of them,
All of them all lined up
Huge crows
Loitering by the curb
Our shared pasts, unravelling behind us like ribbons
And I dreamed of vultures
In the trees behind our house
And cicadas and locusts, and the shrieking of innummerable gibbons
(Chorus)
us4
How long must we ride this way about?
How long 'til someone caves under the pressure?
My dreams are haunted by armies, armies of ghosts
Faces to blurry to make out,
Numbers far too high to measure
Your face,
Like a vision straight out of Holly Hobby
Late light, drizzling through your hair
Your eyes,
Twin volcanoes
Bad ideas, dancing around in there
(Chorus)
End on D.
(1)I didn't go to too much trouble here, because others have already done that.
I'm sure you can find a more specific tab somewhere.
(2)Also, when the G-D bridges two words, that means the first word falls on the G and
the second on the D.
When it is above the word "and" in the 2nd verse, the word "cicadas" falls on G and
"locusts" on D.
7. No Children
Chords (relative to capo):
Intro:
C#m F# C#m F# D E A Asus*
I hope that our few remaining friends
Give up on trying to save us
I hope we come up with a failsafe plot
To piss off the dumb few who forgave us
I hope the fences we mended
Fall down beneath their own weight
And I hope we hang on past the last exit
I hope it's already too late
And I hope the junkyard a few blocks from here
Someday burns down
And I hope the rising black smoke carries me far away,
And I never come back to this town again
In my life,
I hope I lie
And tell everyone you were a good wife
And I hope you die
I hope we both die
C#m F# C#m F# D E A Asus*
I hope I cut myself shaving tomorrow
I hope it bleeds all day long
Our friends say it's darkest before the sun rises
Well, we're pretty sure they're all wrong
I hope it stays dark forever,
I hope the worst isn't over
And I hope that you blink before I do
I hope I never get sober
And I hope when you think of me years down the line
You can't find one good thing to say
And I hope that if I found the strength to walk out
You'd stay the hell out of my way
I am drowning
There is no sign of land
You are coming down with me
Hand in unlovable hand
And I hope you die
I hope we both die
C#m F# C#m F# D E A Asus* x4
End on A.
*the Asus chord isn't necessarily in there, but it helps to fill time on that A.
8. See America Right
Chords:
Riff:
I was
Driving into tampa, when the radiator burst,
I was three sheets to the wind, a civilian saw me first
And then there was the cop, and then the children
Standing on the corner
Your love is like a cyclone in a swamp and the weather's getting warmer
(mute strums)
I was
Getting out of jail, heading to the greyhound
You said you'd hop on one yourself, and meet me on the way down
I was shaking way too hard to think,
Dead on my feet about to drop
Went and got the case of vodka from the car
And walked the two miles to the bus stop
(Instrumental verse)
Strummed chords over riff:
Got
On the bus half drunk again, the driver glared at me
Met up with you in Inglis, thumbed a ride to Cedar Key
If we never make it back to California,
I want you to know I love ya
But my love is like a black cloud full 'o rain
That's always right there up above ya
End abruptly on Em.
The song starts cold with vocals before any instruments come in.
Other than that, it's pretty much completely straight forward.
9. Peacocks
Chords:
Intro:
aj7
Guitar 1:
Guitar 2:
These two are simultaneous.
Listen to the record and you'll hear it.
Abridged riff:
"Fear for my safety...":
"...rise."
Abridged riff 2:
Outro: (same feel as intro)
(Intro)
I hear them squeal
I see them preen
Fans all spread out
Neat and clean
(Abridged riff)
Grab hold of the morning
Head out to the porch
Feel the wind stopping
Feel the sun scorch
Fear for my safety,
You can see it in my eyes
In an hour or two
We will rise...
(Intro)
Then a sharp breeze kicks up,
I hug myself hard
How come there's peacocks
In the front yard?
(Abridged riff 2)
Sun's all prickly
On my neck
When the helicopter passes
We both hit the deck
Hands grasping and groping
Seizing opportunity right where it lies
The sky will fall
We will rise...
(Abridged riff)
(Outro)
(Intro - just guitar 2)
End on C.
10. International Small Arms Traffic Blues
Chords:
A/G# (4x2220)
Intro:
|_____________________| |_____________________|
Main riff Variation 1
Variation 2
Variation 3 (strumming)
(Intro)
My love is like a powder keg
(Main riff)
My love is like a powder keg in the corner
Of an empty warehouse
Outside of town
About to burn down
(Main riff x2)
My love is like a Cuban plane
(Main riff)
My love is like a Cuban plane
Flying from Havana
Up the Florida Coast to the 'Glades
Soviet-made
(Main riff x2)
(Variation 2)
(Main riff)
Our love is like the border between Greece and Albania
(Variation 3)
Our love is like the border between Greece and Albania
Trucks loaded down with weapons
Crossing over every night
Moon yellow and bright...
There is a shortage in the blood supply
But there is no shortage of blood
The way I feel 'bout you, baby, can't explain it
You got the best of my love
(Variation 3 x4)
End on E.
(1)During the closing Variation 3 cycle, play with gradually more abandon.
(2)Between repetitions of the main riff or any of its variations,
there are a few beats of just low E or (0221xx) strumming, but you don't really need it.
11. Have to Explode
Chords:
D/F# (2x023x)
A/C# (x42220)
Intro:
D/F# A/C# B/G G x4
Tile floor of the bathroom
Scrubbed clean and bright
Checkerboard wh--i--te and grey
Towels from the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Kingston, Jamaica
I can still see the rust-colored stains today
The stage is set
Somebody's gonna do something someone else will regret
I speak in smoke signals and you answer in code
The fuse will have to run out sometime
Something here will eventually have to explode
Have to explode
You and me lying on the tile floor
Trying to keep cool, restless all night
Sweating out the poison as the temperature climbs
Staring up, up, at the hundred-watt light
That burns above
Name one thing about us two anyone could love
We roll out the red carpet
When rotten luck comes down the road
Five, four, three, two, one, watch for the flash
Something here will eventually have to explode
D (2 extra measures)
Have to explode
D/F# A/C# B/G G x5
End on G.
He doesn't have the B/G every time, sometimes he just does 2 measures of G.
It's a lot of work to figure out where they all go, so just use your discretion.
It works either way.
12. Old College Try
Chords:
Intro:
From the housetops to the gutters,
From the ocean to the shore
The warning signs have all been bright and garish
Far too great in number to ignore
From the cities to the swamplands,
From the highways to the hills
Our love has never had a leg to stand on,
From the asprins to the cross-tops to the Elevils
But I will walk
Down to the end
With you
If you will come all the way down
With me
From the entrance to the exit
Is further than it looks from where we stand
I wanna say I'm sorry for stuff I haven't done yet
Things will quickly get completely out of hand
I can feel it in the rotten air tonight
In the tips of my fingers, in the skin on my face
In the last gasp of the evening's dying light
In the way those eyes I've always loved
Illuminate this place
Like a trash-can fire in a prison cell
Like the searchlights in the parking lots of hell
I will walk
Down to the end
With you
If you will come all the way down
With me
End on A.
13. Oceanographer's Choice
Chords:
Well
Guy in a skeleton costume
Runs up to the guy
In the superman suit
Runs through him with a broadsword
I flipped the television off
Bring all the bright lights up
Turn the radio up loud
I don't know why I'm so persuaded
That if I think things through
Long enough and hard enough
I'll somehow get to you
But then you came in, and we locked eyes
You kicked the ashtray over as we came toward each other
Stubbed my cigarette out against the west wall
And quickly lit another
Look at that! Would ya look at that?
We're throwing off sparks
What'll I do when I don't have you
To hold onto in the dark?
Yes
Everybody's gonna need a witness
Everybody's gonna need a little back-up
In case the scene gets nasty
You throw the attic window open
And I throw my arms all around you
And night comes to Tallahassee
I don't know why it's gotten harder
To keep myself away
Thought I'd finally beat the feeling back
It all came back today
Look at that! Would ya look at that?
The way the ceiling starts to swerve
What'll I do when I don't have you?
When I finally get what I deserve?
(instrumental verse ad nauseum)
End on Em.
though it sounds more like E in the first verse and Em later.
14. Alpha Rats Nest
Can be played in either standard or Drop D (to incorporate bassline)
Chords:
Standard Drop D
Bassline (for Drop D guitar):
G D _
Intro: Main riff x3 Em C G D D7
All the lengthening hours in the refinery
Belching fire into the sky
We do our best vampire routines
As we suck the dying hours dry
The night is lovely as a rose
(Main riff x2)
If I see sunlight in you I am
sure that we'll both decompose
(Intro)
All the fitful sleep and the fire engines
That I dream of when I dream
Someday we'll both wake up for good
I will try hard not to scream
The evening wind will shake the blind
(Main riff x2)
You're stirring from your slumber we've got
Something hateful on our minds
Oh sing, sing, sing,
For the dying of the day
Sing for the flames that will rip through here
And the smoke that will carry us away
Oh sing for the damage we've done
And the worse things that we'll do
Open your mouth up and sing for me now
And I will sing for you
(Intro x3)
When you get to the last D7 chord, let it ring and hit that low D just once.
so the octaves aren't right for the Drop D guitar.
On a bass guitar it looks like this:
That C note should be an octave lower than on the Drop D guitar.
(2)D's and D7's are largely interchangeable here.
I've noted when I noticed a difference but it's a matter of taste.
There it is. Enjoy.