Shane Koyczan - Tomatoes lyrics
[Shane Koyczan - Tomatoes lyrics]
People always ask me, "How do you memorize
All that?" And the truth is
The first girl I ever kissed tasted like
Tomatoes i know this because the
Second girl I ever kissed
Tasted like pepper it wasn't
Unpleasant, it was just
I was expecting tomatoes when I was a kid
I learned that time slows near a
Black hole inside a black
Hole time stops all together whether
Or not this theory
Will ever be proved, I am moved to believe
This would be the perfect
Place to love someone
In grade four my gym teacher
Gave me the nickname
Half ton it was a name that stuck
I remember it because it was the first time
I ever told someone, "Go fuck yourself
" and meant it he quit calling me the
Name after he called my house trying to
Get me in trouble for what I'd said
To which my grandmother
Replied, "Mr Shithead
I told him to say it!"
I remember my grandfather's blue toolkit
Where he hid
A secret stash of raisins i recall thinking
"My granddad has the worst taste
In candy" But he
Did teach me how to tie a tie
My first opportunity to apply this knowledge
Was my first date a
Seventh grade classmate who showed up
Wearing acid washed jeans
And a death leopard t-shirt I
Wore a suit and tie
When she asked why I was all dressed I
Had to think quickly and told her
"I thought it'd be funny" I don't wanna
Say it ended badly but she
Wound up leaving me for a boy who could make
Farting noises with his armpit
I'm forced to admit, it was pretty cool
In fourth grade my teacher had a
Rule about speaking out of
Turn failure to learn and practice
This lesson would result
In having to sit outside i
Know this because I tried
It once when she finally came out to check on
Me she asked, "What was so important that it
Couldn't wait?" Knowing that
It's rude to point but
Needing to illustrate my
Position, I gestured to her chest and said
"Your boob is
Hanging out" She quickly covered
Up and corrected me
"Breast" She was a good teacher
When I was twelve I was given an
Academic diagnostics test the
Instructor later informed
Me I had an aptitude for history he
Looked puzzled when I replied, "yeah
But that was yesterday and today
I'm more interested in tomorrow"
I remember it because the next day I asked a
Girl if I could borrow a pen when I
Offered it back she said
"You should write me
A letter with it first" So I did
I wrote her a note which
The teacher then intercepted and
Read to the class it was
Something we'd learned in
Science that day about how the
Way gravity affects mass and
Weight in relation to how
Quickly something will fall
Example: A crumpled ball of paper
Will fall at the
Same speed as a chunk of granite it
Doesn't matter how much something weighs
It stays the same until you consider surface
Area and resistance
At which point the persistence
Of gravity loses force
Example: Crumple a piece of
Paper into a ball
It'll fall more quickly than a loose
Sheet they're both composed of the
Same mass and weight so you'd think
That the rate of velocity
Measured by the force of
Gravity would fall each
To fall at the same speed but that's
When you need to consider the greater surface
Area of the loose sheet adds resistance
So the crumpled ball will fall quickly and
The loose sheet will slowly float
I wrote a note, saying that "When
Two people fall in love
They do so at the same speed"
There's no need to factor in
The physics explanations are something we
Can make no use of einstein once wrote
"Gravity will not be held
Responsible for people
Falling in love" I wrote a note
Saying, "If I fall in love with you, no
One will ever be able to explain it
" and I think that's beautiful
Despite the class laughing
And she did as well which is how I
Can tell you that I then
Knew and now still know
She tasted like tomatoes
I don't remember the way every song goes
I can't recall every person I've ever
Met, I get names mixed up all the
Time, I'm terrible with birthdays but
I remember all the ways people have
Affected me how our stories
Became memories and if
You're brazen enough to make one with me
You're
In there somewhere maybe it was a truth or
Dare kiss, or a simple act of kindness
One that reminded me to remember the
Moment and mark it as
A memory so I could have it to look back on
From this life
I've drawn conclusions so big
That you can't fit
Into the tiny comic book boxes because
I don't wanna risk losing the details just
So I can make the story fit
It's not a trick i remember how things felt
Which in turn makes
Me remember how things happened like
My first attempt at skateboarding
When I received a down to
The bone skinned knee
I remember a tree that looked like a man with
Huge arms trying to hold up the sky i
Used to try and climb to the top until
One day I did and couldn't get down
I remember the man with the brown
Car who tried to convince me
He was sent to pick me up by my mom number
One: I lived with my grandparents number
Two: You didn't know the
Safety word i recall when it
Finally occurred to me, i'm pretty fantastic
It's not magic i remember
Because I make comparisons
And not in terms of
Better or worse, just different and not
All of these memories are great
But they're mine which lends weight
To the belief that
None are our lives are put together on an
Assembly line we're not prepackaged with
Emotions or programmed with stories
We have to make our own and
They all come batteries not
Included amid the endless opportunities
We have daily, seldom do we take
The time necessary to pause to
Stop to record, rewind
And press play in our own way we are
All ghetto blasters at top volume
We consume silence with
Noise speakers pounding at our
Heartbeats as we write
Refund receipts for the broken eardrums
Of people that could
Hear us live we give of ourselves time
Precious because it's quality is limited only
By your ability to live within
It put yourself into every second of
Every minute and you will
Have a life worth remembering just
Because we don't have forever, doesn't mean
We have to move towards the end
As if we're on a conveyor
Belt i feel nothing short of
Astonished when people ask me
"How do you memorize all that?"
The fact is
It's not a trick there's no fake
Curtain you need to pull
Away no little old man making
It all work from
Behind a locked door you yourself probably
Remember when I told you before
That near a black hole, time
Slows inside a black hole
Is where I wanted to grow tomatoes
All that?" And the truth is
The first girl I ever kissed tasted like
Tomatoes i know this because the
Second girl I ever kissed
Tasted like pepper it wasn't
Unpleasant, it was just
I was expecting tomatoes when I was a kid
I learned that time slows near a
Black hole inside a black
Hole time stops all together whether
Or not this theory
Will ever be proved, I am moved to believe
This would be the perfect
Place to love someone
In grade four my gym teacher
Gave me the nickname
Half ton it was a name that stuck
I remember it because it was the first time
I ever told someone, "Go fuck yourself
" and meant it he quit calling me the
Name after he called my house trying to
Get me in trouble for what I'd said
To which my grandmother
Replied, "Mr Shithead
I told him to say it!"
I remember my grandfather's blue toolkit
Where he hid
A secret stash of raisins i recall thinking
"My granddad has the worst taste
In candy" But he
Did teach me how to tie a tie
My first opportunity to apply this knowledge
Was my first date a
Seventh grade classmate who showed up
Wearing acid washed jeans
And a death leopard t-shirt I
Wore a suit and tie
When she asked why I was all dressed I
Had to think quickly and told her
"I thought it'd be funny" I don't wanna
Say it ended badly but she
Wound up leaving me for a boy who could make
Farting noises with his armpit
I'm forced to admit, it was pretty cool
In fourth grade my teacher had a
Rule about speaking out of
Turn failure to learn and practice
This lesson would result
In having to sit outside i
Know this because I tried
It once when she finally came out to check on
Me she asked, "What was so important that it
Couldn't wait?" Knowing that
It's rude to point but
Needing to illustrate my
Position, I gestured to her chest and said
"Your boob is
Hanging out" She quickly covered
Up and corrected me
"Breast" She was a good teacher
When I was twelve I was given an
Academic diagnostics test the
Instructor later informed
Me I had an aptitude for history he
Looked puzzled when I replied, "yeah
But that was yesterday and today
I'm more interested in tomorrow"
I remember it because the next day I asked a
Girl if I could borrow a pen when I
Offered it back she said
"You should write me
A letter with it first" So I did
I wrote her a note which
The teacher then intercepted and
Read to the class it was
Something we'd learned in
Science that day about how the
Way gravity affects mass and
Weight in relation to how
Quickly something will fall
Example: A crumpled ball of paper
Will fall at the
Same speed as a chunk of granite it
Doesn't matter how much something weighs
It stays the same until you consider surface
Area and resistance
At which point the persistence
Of gravity loses force
Example: Crumple a piece of
Paper into a ball
It'll fall more quickly than a loose
Sheet they're both composed of the
Same mass and weight so you'd think
That the rate of velocity
Measured by the force of
Gravity would fall each
To fall at the same speed but that's
When you need to consider the greater surface
Area of the loose sheet adds resistance
So the crumpled ball will fall quickly and
The loose sheet will slowly float
I wrote a note, saying that "When
Two people fall in love
They do so at the same speed"
There's no need to factor in
The physics explanations are something we
Can make no use of einstein once wrote
"Gravity will not be held
Responsible for people
Falling in love" I wrote a note
Saying, "If I fall in love with you, no
One will ever be able to explain it
" and I think that's beautiful
Despite the class laughing
And she did as well which is how I
Can tell you that I then
Knew and now still know
She tasted like tomatoes
I don't remember the way every song goes
I can't recall every person I've ever
Met, I get names mixed up all the
Time, I'm terrible with birthdays but
I remember all the ways people have
Affected me how our stories
Became memories and if
You're brazen enough to make one with me
You're
In there somewhere maybe it was a truth or
Dare kiss, or a simple act of kindness
One that reminded me to remember the
Moment and mark it as
A memory so I could have it to look back on
From this life
I've drawn conclusions so big
That you can't fit
Into the tiny comic book boxes because
I don't wanna risk losing the details just
So I can make the story fit
It's not a trick i remember how things felt
Which in turn makes
Me remember how things happened like
My first attempt at skateboarding
When I received a down to
The bone skinned knee
I remember a tree that looked like a man with
Huge arms trying to hold up the sky i
Used to try and climb to the top until
One day I did and couldn't get down
I remember the man with the brown
Car who tried to convince me
He was sent to pick me up by my mom number
One: I lived with my grandparents number
Two: You didn't know the
Safety word i recall when it
Finally occurred to me, i'm pretty fantastic
It's not magic i remember
Because I make comparisons
And not in terms of
Better or worse, just different and not
All of these memories are great
But they're mine which lends weight
To the belief that
None are our lives are put together on an
Assembly line we're not prepackaged with
Emotions or programmed with stories
We have to make our own and
They all come batteries not
Included amid the endless opportunities
We have daily, seldom do we take
The time necessary to pause to
Stop to record, rewind
And press play in our own way we are
All ghetto blasters at top volume
We consume silence with
Noise speakers pounding at our
Heartbeats as we write
Refund receipts for the broken eardrums
Of people that could
Hear us live we give of ourselves time
Precious because it's quality is limited only
By your ability to live within
It put yourself into every second of
Every minute and you will
Have a life worth remembering just
Because we don't have forever, doesn't mean
We have to move towards the end
As if we're on a conveyor
Belt i feel nothing short of
Astonished when people ask me
"How do you memorize all that?"
The fact is
It's not a trick there's no fake
Curtain you need to pull
Away no little old man making
It all work from
Behind a locked door you yourself probably
Remember when I told you before
That near a black hole, time
Slows inside a black hole
Is where I wanted to grow tomatoes