Lyrics Walk Like Thunder.lrc Kimya Dawson
[id: pshjotly]
[ar: Kimya Dawson]
[al: Thunder Thighs]
[ti: Walk Like Thunder]
[length: 10:34]
[00:22.23]I have this new tattoo of which the story must be told
[00:27.60]About the night I almost overdosed ten years ago
[00:33.02]I woke up in the hospital with skin clammy and cold
[00:38.43]And tubes in my urethra, down my throat and up my nose
[00:43.84]My friends and the doctors were all shocked I wasn’t dead
[00:49.24]That’s when Katrina looked at me and this is what she said
[00:54.71]Walk like thunder
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[01:19.10]So I walked to the rebel spot, I walked all over uptown
[01:23.67]I walked right side up and I walked upside down
[01:29.95]I walked to Chetzemoka with my eyes fixed on the ground, yeah
[01:36.28]We walked all over Chetze Beach and kept the rocks we found
[01:41.64]Then I walked back to my parents’ house, I walked back to my old bed, yeah
[01:47.12]I walked back and I walked fast past all the voices in my head
[01:53.42]I walked with the sweats and I walked with the chills
[01:58.88]I walked in New York City and I walked in Bed-ford Hills
[02:05.17]I walked into open mic nights and I walked into the rooms
[02:10.54]I walked feeling optimistic and I walked feeling doomed
[02:16.96]I walked with some mama’s boys and I walked with some punks
[02:22.35]I walked dressed up like a rabbit, I walked dressed up like a skunk
[02:27.74]I walked with some givers and I walked with some leeches
[02:34.00]I walked all by myself and I walked with the Moldy Peaches
[02:39.47]I walked all over the world so I could sing my songs to you
[02:44.91]And to your most desperate emails I’d said, “This is what I do”
[02:51.27]I walk like thunder
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[03:15.64]But at some point I got so comfortable
[03:21.02]That I didn’t even realize that I’d started to crawl
[03:26.51]That my old friend Ammi died at 37 of a heart attack
[03:31.96]And I cracked ’cause people my age are not supposed to die like that
[03:38.26]No, no, no, no, people my age are not supposed to die like that
[03:44.55]He was the old manager of the sidewalk cafe
[03:50.01]That place was a second home to me, it’s where I learned to play
[03:56.37]And his personality really helped create a space
[04:01.72]Where a bunch of honest misfits could all gather and feel safe
[04:07.19]He was a cynic, a supporter, he was crazy, he was queer
[04:13.43]He’d either yell out, “Cut the bullshit” or he’d say, “I’m glad you’re here”
[04:18.82]And it was always such an honor to have Ammi on my side
[04:24.37]That’s why it hit me like a Mack truck when I found out that he died
[04:30.69]Yeah, it hit me like a Mack trucks when I found out that he died
[04:36.00]Then enter Alex, 33 years old and so sick with the cancer
[04:42.31]And trapped inside a body that betrayed his real gender
[04:48.72]We all hoped and prayed that he would go into remission
[04:54.12]At least long enough, just long enough to complete his transition
[04:59.50]He said, “Kimya, did you know Eleventeen’s my favorite song?”
[05:05.09]I said, “Then get your ass on stage right now and you can sing along”
[05:11.36]That’s the very first song I ever wrote all by myself
[05:17.77]It’s about angels and recovery and friends and hope and health
[05:23.14]By the time we finished singing he was pissed off, he was scared
[05:29.41]He said, “I lost my home, my lover, my insurance and my hair
[05:35.77]And now I’m about to lose you too, my new friend”
[05:41.11]I looked into those big blue eyes and said we’ll meet again
[05:47.52]Yeah, I looked into his sad blue eyes and said we’ll meet again
[05:52.94]Then I got the phone call from Alyssa and she told me he was dying
[05:58.34]By the time I got to his bedside we were both already flying
[06:04.71]We held hands and we sang songs, tried to be strong floated around
[06:10.15]While I cursed the skin that he was in for all the ways it had let him down
[06:16.48]Yeah, I cursed the skin that he was in for all the ways it had let him down
[06:21.83]But at the same time I was taking my own body for granted
[06:28.26]First I lost sight of my feet then they became un-planted
[06:33.65]And I never felt so stupid or so selfish or so sad, yeah
[06:39.99]My body had been good to me and I treated it so bad, yeah
[06:46.22]My body had been good to me and I treated it so bad
[06:50.76]Then he said, “Mama, I don’t want my friends to watch me die”
[06:57.07]So I kissed his cheek, made him a shirt and then I said goodbye
[07:02.55]And they cremated him in the shirt that I drew
[07:08.86]Of the two of us that said they’re flying over you too
[07:14.20]Now the silver pink ponies have my homie in their crew
[07:20.57]So I tightened up my laces and knew what I had to do
[07:26.03]I started walking again, I started walking again, I miss my friends
[07:37.70]I started walking again, I started walking again, I miss my friends
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[09:00.95]Even creeps as a habit, predisposed
[09:03.65]To systematically clinging together in the cold
[09:06.38]Know the measure of a pack, it’s not a question of the whole
[09:09.02]The individuals that bottleneck into the fold
[09:12.62]On a March blank Sabbath, news from the ministry of make-believe
[09:15.33]That reach a tarmac in Minneapolis, middle see
[09:18.98]Yesterday the cells inside his chest were growing baby teeth
[09:21.64]Today a raven radiated vacancy
[09:23.40]Wait, two years ago a friend of mine
[09:27.12]Called me to redefine all enemy-kind
[09:29.83]I’m at the hospital at twenty-four and no one knew the future
[09:32.59]I’ll take it everybody knows the future
[09:35.27]Antibodies hatching in a hellaback with no room to maneuver
[09:38.85]Like disappearing pills into the masticated fuchsia
[09:41.59]I asked you how you feeling, you told me like a robot
[09:44.23]I gave you a Nintendo, you gave yourself a Mohawk
[09:47.07]You let us will you down beneath the leaning tower of flow charts
[09:49.76]To be around your beats without a beeping sound of Bogart
[09:53.35]And speak about whatever people speak about
[09:55.13]When nobody’s acknowledging the obvious disease about the crowbar
[09:58.75]In deep plane slope, comatose of baggage
[10:02.34]From king of hearts to carrying for jackals
[10:05.00]And never got to sing us all his own swan song right
[10:07.76]Coincidentally the rebel in me walk like thunder
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[10:24.91]Year of Release: 2011