Track 1 · Lyricsトラック 1・歌詞
Fate Knocks
運命のノック
Six o’clock sounds like destiny at the door. Nine minutes of snooze are all the narrator can bargain for before Tuesday demands a body out of bed.朝六時、扉をたたくのは運命のような音。九分間のスヌーズで時間を稼いでも、火曜日はベッドから出てくるよう迫る。
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Behind the Track楽曲の背景
The dark thins at six, and the alarm arrives as an unwelcome visitor. Four little notes become hammer blows from the universe. Under the blanket, the narrator tries to negotiate another nine minutes.
The language keeps reaching for gods, coups and debts. The day keeps asking for the same small thing: get up. The Mandarin lines name what the snooze button cannot stop—the arrival of what was always coming.
By the last chorus, the narrator is standing. There is still a meeting, and now there is coffee to grind. Tomorrow may win the same argument. This morning has at least reached the floor.
朝六時、暗闇が薄くなり、目覚ましが招かれざる訪問者としてやってくる。四つの音は宇宙が振り下ろす拳になる。毛布の下で、語り手はあと九分だけと交渉する。
言葉は神々や政変や借りへと膨らむ。一日が求めているのは、起き上がるという小さなことだけ。中国語の一節が告げるのは、スヌーズでは止められない、来るべきものの到来だ。
最後のサビでは、語り手はもう立っている。会議はある。コーヒーも挽く。明日も同じやり取りに負けるかもしれない。それでも今朝は、床に足がついた。
Lyrics歌詞
(it's coming) Six on the dot and the dark goes thin Something's at the door, and it's let itself in (go back to sleep) Da-da-da-dum, it found me in my bed Four little notes that wake the living dead I did not call for it, I did not leave the light But destiny's got Wi-Fi and it syncs to me at night The same four hammer-blows, the universe's fist I knew that this was coming, I just hoped that it had missed My thumb knows where to go, I bargain for some time (five more minutes) Nine minutes from the void, the most expensive crime (snooze again) Fate knocks, da-da-da-dum at the door I have heard this knock a thousand times before (don't get up) It's not the plague, it's not the end of all mankind It's a Tuesday and a meeting I've already half resigned (it's just the alarm) Da-da-da-dum, it will not be denied I've silenced lesser gods, but this one won't subside The curtains hold the sunrise like a secret being kept My body's a republic where a quiet coup was prepped I bargain with the morning, I've got nothing left to trade The knock just keeps on coming till the final debt is paid Fate knocks, da-da-da-dum at the door I have heard this knock a thousand times before (don't get up) It's not the plague, it's not the end of all mankind It's a Tuesday and a meeting I've already half resigned (it's just the alarm) I count the knocks, they do not slow down 该来的总会来 命运在敲门 I throw the blanket off, I meet it on the floor The knock was never death, the knock was just the day But doom and Tuesday morning kind of sound the same anyway Fate knocks, da-da-da-dum at the door I'm already standing, can't pretend I'm asleep no more (fine, I'm up) It's not the plague, it's not the end of all mankind It's a Tuesday and a meeting and a coffee I will grind (it's just the alarm) (it's just the alarm) Six-oh-nine and the dark gives in Same knock tomorrow and I'll lose again (don't answer)