Sun Kil Moon - I'm Not Laughing at You lyrics

In the morning
I went to the breakfast area in
Ghent jet lagged, at 6: 50 in the morning
The woman said "Hey, I'm not open yet" We
Got to talking, she said "Excuse me, sir
But, you look very tired"
"It’s cause I stayed up late, not
Because of cocaine or anything
It's just the way my internal
Clock is constantly being unwired"
She said "Where you from?" i said "The USA"
She started cracking up, I said "Hey
Why are you laughing at me?"
She said "I'm not laughing at you
I’m laughing at the country
From where you came"
She said "I'm not laughing at you
I'm laughing at the country
From where you came"
"I'm not laughing at you
I'm laughing at the country
From where you came"
She said "I'm not laughing at you
I'm laughing at your country"

People ask me in my country "What
Does the rest of the
World think of the USA?" Said
"Same thing that they always
Did, they think we're stupid and
Insane goes back to Columbine
And Reagan, and Nixon, and Viet
Nam, and George Bush
And shock and awe campaign it’s
Always been the same
Since the first time I ever boarded a
Plane to get across an ocean
They think our country is insane they
Look at me crooked when I
Am in Finland, and Portugal, Norway
And Spain Americans say "Really?
They always thought

That way of us?" They ask me
Holding their plastic Big Gulps
I say "yeah, they think we’re a bunch
Of uneducated, fat, Mountain Dew drinking
Fast food eating dumbasses once I said
To a promoter "You imported me
Right? So we're responsible for many
Beautiful things" He said "yeah, but you
Guys also shot John Kennedy and Martin
Luther King" I said "Well, one day
Of this conversation, " I was
Saying "And by the way, we’re responsible
For Lou Reed, who are you responsible
For? Sting?" He said "Well, we also
Exported Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, and
The Beatles" I said "Well, you got
Me there i give up we're responsible
For Michael Bolton, Steely Dan
And The Eagles" "You better start swimming
Or you'll sink like a stone"
Bob Dylan said that
"For the loser now will be later
To win" Bob Dylan said that
"Don't criticize what you can’t understand"
Bob Dylan said that "Fuck hate culture
Let's rise above let's come together and show
Each other love" I said that
"I love you all, I love you all, I love you
All i love you too, ghost
Girl in the elevator

Hearing voices in the hall" I said that
"If you see somebody hungry, and
Sleeping in the gutter, hold them
In your arms and tell them
That you love them
For they're all your sisters and
Your brothers" I said that
So I went to breakfast room the
Next day very well rested
I said "How do I look
Today?" And she studied my eyes so closely
If she were a doctor and I were
Being tested she said "Looks like
You slept too much
And this is also not healthy"
I said "Where you from?" she said "Romania"
I said "What part?" she said "Transylvania"
I asked "Hey, what brings you here to Ghent?"
She said "My husband is Italian
My son is three what is this?
Why? Are you interviewing me?"
I said "I was just wondering how someone
Ends up in Ghent from Transylvania"
She said "Well you're here and
Where are you from exactly?"
I said "The state where the kids at
Kent Station were killed
West of Pennsylvania"

She said "Do you mind if I
Say: You show signs of megalovania"
I said "I don't mind can I
Sit down now? It's 6: 59"
She said "OK what can I get you?"
I said "Nothing i still got
My bottle of water
From the plane i flew over on Lufthansa"
She said "yeah, drink lots of water" and we
Talked about the heat we
Talked about the August heat and
The European heat wave
I said "Every time I play
Belgium in the summer
It's usually pissing rain" she said "yeah
This is the worst heat wave
We've had since 1978"
I said "yeah, and my hotel has no AC"
And she said "Poor thing"

We played our concert in Ghent on a bar on
A beautiful blue telecaster and I asked the
Guy who owned it "Can I ask you a
Question", he said "Sure, Mark
Ask me anything, i'll give you an answer"
I said "This is the nicest
Telecaster I've ever played is
There any chance I can buy it from you?"
He said "Well, this is your answer
I can't sell it to you this
Was my father's and he
Passed it on to me before
He passed of bone cancer"

I left the hotel at one
O'clock in the morning
All the street fare stands were closing but
There was a group of Flemish
People standing around a guy who barbequeing
Something that looked and smelled so
Good, I don't have to open my
Mouth for Europeans, a known American
My belly gives it away
And so do my baggy clothes it doesn't matter
The size and shape of people in Europe
They all wear very tight clothes
Anyhow, I asked a group of
People hanging around the

Barbeque "How do I order?" The barbeque guy
Laughed at me and pointed at the three ladies
In aprons standing on the street corner
They said "How many do you
Want? He is closing" i said six
And everybody laughed one lady
Said "You can only
Have four" holding four fingers up to
My face so I went and stood with the people
And the cook, who looked at me twice
And said two words in Flemish
That had everybody busting
Up laughing my guess is that he said "Stupid
American" my guess is that
He said "Stupid American"
Even if they were laughing at my expense
I didn't care and I laughed along with
Them uSA's a laugh, OK, i was too tired to
Defend where I live this country is a
Laugh, and I'm sorry, but again
I was too tired to defend where
I live i mean, what did we invent?
I was thinking the iPhone, MySpace
OKCupic? No wonder everyone in
The rest of the world thinks we're all so
Fucking stupid i mean, Buffalo
Invented Buffalo wings

And to me that's a very cool thing but
At a certain point Buffalo wings are
Heart attack makers so Buffalo had to invent
Another thing called the pacemaker what a
Wonderful contribution to our world
Kids are committing
Suicide because they're being
Cyberbullied thanks to
Inventions created by nerds trump
Is rallying troops
Via an invention created by nerds

Oh, let me guess, when you listen to music
These are not the kind of words
You want to listen to
You'd rather listen to Eight Miles
High by The Birds, but
You don't want to listen to music at all
You want to binge out on some
TV series or another there's
So many networks now, it's all
A blur amazon, Netflix
ITunes, HBO, Showtime, Hulu i
Ain't pointing fingers, i watch
Finding Joseph too and Mark
Duplass is my friend
So I watch Creep 1 and I watch Creep 2
I need to know I'm loved
Fucking off in the morning
At my favorite meal
"I need eyes looking at me as if there is
No other loves on Earth"
James Kavanaugh said that
"I love America more than any other country
In this world and exactly for this
Reason i insist on the right to criticize
Her perpetually" James Baldwin said that
"I'm wanna say one thing

To the American people
I want you to listen to me
I'm gonna say this again i did not
Have sexual relations with that women
Miss Lewinsky" Bill Clinton said that
"When Donald Trump becomes president
We will all face reality
TV, and Twitter, and Google, and video games
And everything that has turned this
Country into a bunch
Of dumbed down slaves to
Technology" I said that

It was fucking hot out i
Knew they were laughing
At my coat i always put one on
At night if you lived in San Francisco for
Thirty years, that'd be
Your natural instinct
Too so I asked the people around me
"What's he barbequeing?" Somebody said
"Lamb" when he divided it all up at the end
He was giving the Flemish people
Theirs first and after they
Had all walked away, i
Was given the last four
Pieces i thought "Well
This is a pretty transparent
'Fuck You'" One of
The ladies in the apron said as
I was walking off "The last pieces are
The best ones those are good luck"
It was the best lamb I ever tasted
It must have been the salt at the time
I thought "holy fuck

This Flemish guy is putting a lot
Of salt on this lamb"
But it must have been the
Kind of salt that he
Put on the lamb that gave it
The very nice flavor it
Had i'm back in San Francisco
And my bed feels
So cozy and fog horns are going off all
Night they sound beautiful and
I'm reading Crocodile
By Dostoevsky guy named Ivan
Crawled inside a crocodile's
Belly and he prefers life inside the
Gator's belly
So does his best friend he's got a
Thing for Ivan's lady now it's
Daytime, drunk people are walking
Around my neighborhood

And it's twelve noon i said "Nathan
Something seems strange where are all
These people coming from?"
He said "They're here for the
Outside Lands Music Festival"
I said "Who's playing?"
He said "Janet Jackson, the Weeknd
And Chromeo" i said "Well
We gotta get to work so
We'll be skipping that"