The floor

Inte så kul, men väldigt väldigt bra…

I can remember being seven years old

Having goldfish that circled around in a bowl

I would watch the forest burn and listen to the wind blow

I remember the table, the drapes, and the window

The dark brown everything, decoration, styling

Most of all, I can remember my mother smiling

Worn out and faded, my hometown was scrappy

More than anything, she wanted us to be happy

Little to eat and back and forth to the hospital

She was right, it’s better to be happy if possible

But the old man was under attack and was weak

And continued to beat us several times a week

He lived like a king even though we were piss poor

I tried to be strong and careful what I wished for

My outside ached, my inside stung

The long leather belt had replaced his tongue

Not knowing how to run or how to hit the brakes

A white picket fence was built around a pit of snakes

Both a wonder and frightening, the thunder and lightning

These were the sounds and sights of a thousand fights

My mother, the poor fish, staging eternal

Charades and parades for the raging inferno

Wanting to be happy, beaten all the while

Asking me always, why don’t you ever smile

And she’d show me how to do it, mother and wife

It was the saddest smile I ever saw in my life

It hurt worse than death but for her sake I tried

And one day all of those goldfish died

Hurricane, forest fire, out of control

Eyes open, floating on the water in the bowl

And when my father came home, he walked through the door

And threw those fish to the cat on the kitchen floor

And the wind died too and I was still a child

And the three of us watched as my mother smiled

/Richard Terfry

Låten/texten heter The Floor och är med på Buck 65’s album Secret House Against The World, hans bästa hitills.

Eftersom jag inte fått till det här med inbäddade ljudfiler än så kan man lyssna på den här

Han har även ganska nyligen gjort en konsert/spelning tillsammans med symfoni/kammar orkestern Nova Scotia som är väl värt att lyssna in, The Floor är med även där. Läs mer om konserten och lyssna här 

Om man vill lyssna direkt på The Floor med Nova Scotia och Buck 65 så kan man göra det här