Sun Kil Moon - Chili Lemon Peanuts lyrics

Scenic drive from Auburn to Diamond Springs
American River sparkles under the bridge on
This fine day of spring
To the left Sutter's Fort
Where they discovered gold
To the right rolling vineyards
And apple orchards
I just passed the bridge and the
Sign for the town Cool
No, but that sign was the last
For the Tim Mooney ever took
Before he left the world back in Nevada City
It was the summer where we cried for
His wife and his daughter Dixie
Second day of April home
Still decorated Christmas-y

The front lawn's been cut and the
Backyard has a fallen tree
Tomorrow my yard guy's gonna get back
There and cut it to pieces


I'm on the front porch staring at this
Old dusty bible and I'm writing lyrics
And on the floors
An old pearloid accordion made by Hohner
Three gas lamps, two antique
And the other faux
And I'm out here and it feels good
(In this moment) In this moment
Writing words on my big
Black Victorian wrap-around porch
Next we gotta be leaving maybe
Slightly but not so
Sadly gonna see Manny Pacquiao
Fight against Timothy Bradley
Where I predict Manny will lose by decision
Suffering

Him to the fourth, five brains bashed in
His hangarounds keep winning
Then I'm going down to New
Orleans for Gulf Coast oysters
That's right, baby, I'm living my dream
For the first moment I ever picked
Up guitar I knew my life
Would go down a different road
Than the kid next door

I hear the birds outside tweet, tweet
Tweeting and the cars along the highway
Off in the distance i hear an owl up in
The tree hoot, hoot, hoot, hooting
I hear a Spanish radio in
The basement talk, talk, talking

I smell the sardine can from
The meal I've just eaten
Gonna put this pen down, stare
Off into the sky, dreaming with my heart is
The world's biggest smile
For the hell of it I'm gonna read
A random passage from the Bible
It's been in this house since the
First day I owned it it was laying open
Swear I'd never touch it but my housekeeper
Picked it up and closed it
So here we go, gonna read just a bit of it
Then look off into the pines
And let my mind drift

Chapter 9, St luke
Christ sends forth his apostles, feeds
Five thousand with five loaves
Is transfigured and casts out a devil then
Calling together the twelve apostles
He gave them power and
Authority over all devils, and to cure
Diseases and he sent them to
Preach the kingdom of God
And to heal the sick and he said
To them: Take nothing for your journey
Neither staff, nor scrip, nor bread
Nor money
Neither have two coats and whatsoever house
You shall enter into, abide there
And depart not from thence and
Whosoever will not receive you, when ye go
Out of that city, shake off even
The dust of your feet
For a testimony against them
And going out, they went about through
The towns, preaching the gospel
And healing everywhere

So there I was
I read a part of the book of Jesus
Now I'm eating sunflower seeds
And chili lemon peanuts
Sipped on a bottle of Glacéau smartwater
And fell asleep until from upstairs my girl
Woke me up when she hollered

12: 45 AM
SNL, Gwen Stefani, and the short actor guy
What's his name? We are the beautiful dead
And the beautiful night
I love my girl and my home
And this miracle of life

1: 04 AM, Vdara Hotel
Room 14015, April 9, 2016
Our day started today with many kisses
You were on your way out the door
To Southern California 'til the fourteenth
And I was on my way to Las Vegas
Then to New Orleans
When you said bye and closed
My apartment door behind you
A heavy feeling fell upon me
It hit me in a very real way
That we'll live the rest
Of our lives together and that gives me so
Much happiness and comfort
But it also hit me harder
Than ever before that
One day we'll say goodbye for a final time
Every day we get closer and closer to death
I have no illusions of an afterlife
And have no idea how much longer
I have on this planet
Or what my quality of life
Will be in five, ten, fifteen years
Where will our final goodbye be? What
Condition will I be in?
And how will your health be? Are
We even sure we'll be
In the same place when one of us has to go?
I don't like goodbyes

I've had enough last goodbyes with
People to know that
It's the most painful emotion in the world
I don't want to live for eternity
Life is filled with too much sorrow
My mind keeps flashing to a
Woman I saw recently
Of her and her son asleep in the car
On the Tenderloin on a very hot day
They were in a tow-away zone and
Looked to be completely passed out
She had a big map open on her lap
But, I knocked on the door and though she
Couldn't speak to me she was okay
My biggest hope in life is that you
Are beside me when I die
I've lived many lifetimes in forty-nine years
But the best time of my life is of
My days and years spent with you
I'm getting older and my stomach
Is bloated and feels off i burp too much
I'm that middle-aged guy with a gut
That I never thought I'd be
And here I am in Las Vegas
Family men with bellies bigger than mine are
Walking around with Guns N' Roses t-shirts
My elevator was shared with
People who've arrived from
The Philippines to see the Pacquiao fight
How many more times will I fly to Las Vegas?
I saw Pacquiao when he was rising
In San Francisco in 2000 at Bill Graham
Now he's thirty-seven and this might
Be his last fight

My money is on Bradley to win by a decision
That's why I'm here, to see what
May be Manny's last fight
If in fact he does win
I'm getting older and Las Vegas
Is as wild as ever
But, I'm tired and I hear the
Hum of a small refrigerator
My mind and my eyes are fading
Vdara Hotel, 1: 03 PM, April 9th
Meeting Tony in the lobby at
2: 00 PM for lunch just turned on CNN
"Paris terror fugitive is hitman
In Brussels bombing"
I woke up at about 9: 00 AM
Terrible nightmare that Caroline and I were
Being followed by this creepy
Lizard-y-looking plastic surgery guy I saw
On the plane yesterday
He was following us to a hotel
But, I was diplomatic, turned around
And told him we'd meet him on
The balcony of some bar nearby
When we arrived and talked to him

He started throwing insults at me
And I knocked his drink out of
His hand and into the street
He stayed there unfazed
Then I grabbed him by his neck, lifting
Him, pushing him almost, but not quite
Over the balcony
I told him to go fuck himself and to
Stay the fuck out of our lives
He finally shut his stupid mouth
And as we left, caroline told me that I was
Good with dealing with creeps
That was the end of the dream

April 10, seat 2E, United Airlines
Las Vegas to New Orleans
The fight didn't go as I thought
To me, the math added up to
Bradley winning by a decision
If it went the distance
But Bradley was knocked down twice and lost
Bradley had a few moments and I jumped up out
Of my seat, threw my fists in the air
And got pumped up with excitement
But Manny was faster and countered him
Manny was the best fighter that night
We were in seat 19B
Right where the fighters entered and exited
I felt bad for Bradley when he passed
His trainer Teddy Atlas looked deflated
Yet stoic at the same time as he exited
Manny's mother and his wife and kids
Were all smiles when they exited
I sat in my chair for a
Long time after the fight
Hemming and hawing about the defeat
I owe money on my lost bet
The fight hadn't gone as I predicted
And that's life