Текст песни: Ice Floes Aweigh + перевод

The queen mother calls to mother west wind

Let’s be nice, all right. Bless the castle, and the titles, and protocol

Dad asks if there’s anything I’d like to ask, like, before he dies

Anything I’d like to know. I ask, «Dad, where did your dad come from?»

What I’d really like to ask is, «Why did you throw that huge glass of chocolate

milk at me when I said I was moving out, at 17?

And did either of you read my last book?»

And why do you tell people

You’re going to kill the man in the trailer next door?"

I’m waiting here alone, drinking tea instead of gin, I’m respectable

My brother tells me, on the phone, that

Civilized people do not leave their parents in their old age

I have ice floes in my mind, everywhere white. Fur-trimmed mittens, arms linked.

The backs of hooded parkas. The mist whips between them and me.

Ice floes aweigh. I feel guilt and relief. I should run after them,

bring them back, and serve them tea. The desire to run after them has

disappeared. I grab the door of the plane, hoist myself in. The propeller

starts, I don’t look down. Are they waving up at me?

They have no plan, I suspect this means

I’ll have to take over, and rescue them

Tea is at 11 and again at 3. Breakfast comes right after coffee, which is at 8,

with a muffin or a scone. Breakfast is oatmeal and lunch is at noon

Dinner is at 6 right after the 5 o’clock news

Dad talks too much, stories from 35 years ago, something someone said

At the office is still bothering him

Or what about the time he threatened to throw

The tax auditor down the stairs

Or the time he turned the hose on the guy next door

Or what big losers Margaret Atwood and Joni Mitchell are

The queen mother calls to mother west wind. Let’s be nice, all right

Bless the castle, and the titles, and protocol

What I’d really like to ask is, «Why did you throw that huge glass of chocolate

milk at me when I said I was moving out, at 17?

The queen mother calls to mother west wind, to mother west wind

Bless the castle, and the titles, and protocol

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