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Lyrics & Translation

[English]

sit down thank you you're very kind it's all for you

I'm not hungry go ahead

you you eat like a bird and you know of course no not really

anyway I hear the expression eats like a bird is really a fault fall false

falsity because birds really eat a tremendous lot but how to really know

anything about birds my hobby is stuffing things you know

taxidermy and I guess I'd just rather stuffed birds because I hate the look of

beasts when they're stuffed you know foxes and chimps some some people even

stuffed dogs and cats but oh I can't do that

I think only birds look well stuffed because well because they're kind of

passive to begin with it's a strange hobby curious

I'm common too well I imagine so and it's it's not as expensive as you'd

think it's cheap really you know needles thread sawdust the chemicals are the

only thing that could cost anything a man should have a hobby but it's more

than a hobby how are you supposed to pass the time not fill it it's your time

so empty no well I run the office and tend the cabins and grounds and and do

little errands for my mother the one she allows that might be capable of doing

did you go out with friends well a boy's best friend is his mother you've never

had an empty moment in your entire life have you

only my share where are you going I didn't mean to pry I'm looking for a

private island what are you running away from why do

you ask that

people never run away from anything the rain didn't last long did it

you know what I think I think that we're all in our private traps clamped in them

and none of us can ever get out we scratch and claw but only at the air

only at each other and for all of it we never budge an inch sometimes we

deliberately step into those traps I was born in mine I don't mind it anymore oh

but you should you should mind it oh I do but I say I don't you know if anyone

ever talked to me the way I heard it's the way she spoke to you sometimes when

she talks to me like that I figured I'd like to go up there and cursor and and

and leave her forever or at least a fire

but I know I can't she's ill she sounded strong no I mean ill she had to raise me

all by yourself after my father died I was only five and it must have been

quite a strain for her she didn't have to go to work or anything like that he

left her a little money anyway a few years ago mother met this man and he he

talked her into building this moto he could have talked her into anything and

when he died too it was just too great a shock for her and the way he died I

guess there's nothing to talk about while you're eating anyway it was just

too great a loss for her she had nothing left except you my son is a poor

substitute for a lover why don't you go away to a private island like you know

not like me I couldn't do that who'd look after her she'd be alone up

there the fire would go out it'd be cold and damp like a grave if you love

someone you don't do that to them even if you hate them you understand I don't

hate her I hate what she's become I hate the

illness wouldn't it be better if you put her

someplace you mean an institution a madhouse

people always call him madhouse some place don't they put her in some place

I'm sorry I didn't mean it to sound and caring what do you know about caring

have you ever seen the inside of one of those places laughing in the tears and

the cruel eyes studying you mind mother there but she's harmless

she's as harmless as one of those stuffed birds I am sorry I only felt it

seems she's hurting you I meant well people always mean well

they collect their thick tongues and shake their heads and suggest oh so very

delicately

of course I've suggested it myself but I hate to even think about it she needs me

it's not as if she were a maniac a raving things she just goes a little mad

sometimes we all go a little mad sometimes haven't you yes sometimes just

one time can be enough thank you Thank You Norman

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
hungry /ˈhʌŋ.ɡri/ A2	adjective - feeling or displaying the need for food.
hobby /ˈhɒb.i/ B1	noun - an activity done regularly in one's leisure time for pleasure.
stuffing /ˈstʌf.ɪŋ/ B1	noun - the act of filling something tightly with a material. verb - to fill something tightly with a material.
tremendous /trɪˈmen.dəs/ B2	adjective - extremely large or great.
passive /ˈpæs.ɪv/ B2	adjective - accepting or allowing what happens or what others do, without active response or resistance.
expensive /ɪkˈspen.sɪv/ A2	adjective - costing a lot of money.
capable /ˈkeɪ.pə.bl̩/ B1	adjective - having the ability, fitness, or quality necessary to do or achieve a specified thing.
private /ˈpraɪ.vət/ A2	adjective - belonging to or for the use of one particular person or group of people only.
running /ˈrʌn.ɪŋ/ A2	verb - moving at a speed faster than walking, never having both or all the feet on the ground at the same time.
traps /træps/ B1	noun - a device used for catching animals.
deliberately /dɪˈlɪb.ər.ət.li/ B2	adverb - in a conscious and intentional way.
ill /ɪl/ A2	adjective - not in good health.
strain /streɪn/ B1	noun - a physical or mental effort which could cause someone to feel tired or anxious.
shock /ʃɒk/ B1	noun - a feeling of surprise and alarm.
substitute /ˈsʌb.stɪ.tjuːt/ B2	noun - a person or thing that is used in place of another.
raving /ˈreɪ.vɪŋ/ B2	adjective - talking rapidly and excitedly; incoherent.
harmless /ˈhɑːr.ləs/ B1	adjective - not causing or intending to cause harm.
caring /ˈkeə.rɪŋ/ A2	adjective - displaying kindness and concern for others.