Striking Wet Matches: Vanished

Striking Wet Matches: Vanished

Vanished

before she disappeared some would say vanished we were good friends yeah, good friends before I answered that telephone to a flurry of scripture i wondered if she was stoned she gave away all her rock records and filled her book case full of leather bound revelations firing up her imaginations’ over the top guess I’m here in hell with the rest of the lot stuck in a backwards message left to rot happy hour strikes at the last chance bar I saw her today out spreading the good news have you heard and received the word about the wheel that’s when the gentleman turned and said i’m not the one who needs convincing, little lady I once saw gene vincent “sanctify the most unholy host you’d have sworn he was the heavenly ghost” but i can’t recall seeing right through him the way that i do you right now before she disappeared she had a mind so full of color uniquely her own I can’t believe to find herself she had to vanish in the great unknown and when she was reborn then she arose with a turned up nose and the occasional call that seems to be all now that she’s back in school and having a ball i'm sure the usual girl can sometimes be maybe always lately but never definitely all the world’s her amusement park poised for the mission like joan of arc on sunday she’s a crusade saturday a disney parade because you can still have fun and be saved that’s the last thing that I heard her say before she disappeared some would say vanished we were good friends yeah good friends into the great unknown before she disappeared some would say vanished we were good friends yeah good friends into the great unknown before she disappeared some would say vanished we were good friends yeah good friends into the great unknown before she disappeared…

Supermarket Girl

Translated by Jun Saito


Kimino kokorowa ikizumatte irune

Mushisare semerarete bakari

Moshimo dekiru kotonara

Nantoka shite agetai

Kimiwa ittai nan-ni naritaino


Supermarket Girl tsuro-o aruku

Hohoemanaide

Shoruini umore

Mameo kazoete

Jurokusaino tokikara zutto

Supermarket Girl


Kimiwa ittai nan-ni naritaino

Shidaini yumega shibonde shimattano

Moshimo bokuga okanemochinara

Hanbun wakete agerarerunoni

Soshite kimiga inakutemo heikisa


Supermarket Girl tsuro-o aruku

Hohoemanaide

Shoruini umore

Mameo kazoete

Jurokusaino tokikara zutto

Supermarket Girl