Sun Kil Moon - This Is My First Day and I'm Indian and I Work at a Gas Station lyrics

Fell asleep last night listening to a train
Whistle blowing across the Carquinez Strait
And to the wind blowing
Through the eucalyptus trees
Watching Paolo Sorrentino's "The
Great Beauty"
Fell asleep last night listening to a train
I want to visit my friend because
She's in a lot of pain
It was the shingles, then C diff
Now they're saying lupus
She's a single mom with two kids and
She don't deserve any of it
I'd like to go out there when I can
But, I'm just back from Finland and
Soon I'm off to Switzerland
For a part in a film, but when I get home
Gonna go see my friend and keep her
Company for a week or so

I feel bad for not going there now


But, I got a life out here
I need to hold the fort down
Got hardwood floors buckling up and
An old leaky pipe
I got thirty yards of fallen fence that
I need to put back upright
And I broke a tooth on a
Bone in some beef stew
I was eating in Belgium and it
Cracked right down to the root
My gums are bleeding and they're turning blue
And I've got a dentist appointment on Tuesday
Went to a 7
11 and the clerk, his hands were shaking
I said, "Are you all right?" and he said
"It's my first day and I'm Indian and
I work at a gas station"
I said, "you'll be fine
" got my change and as I turned
He said nervously, "Yes, sir, thank
You, have a good day, sir"
It's a nice spring day, April 19th
And the flowers are in bloom and I did
Yard work until my arms turned pink
And my girl broke my laptop
While making the bed
She went right to Best Buy and bought
Another because she felt so bad
Then we went and bought and
An old Victrola I liked
Then we went to an open house, built in 1902
Had been kept up real nice
It had a nice back porch and
The walls were original old brick
And it was a great old house
But, I didn't like the way
The cars blew past it

Fell asleep last night here in Flims
Switzerland
Reading the John Connolly book "The
Wanderer in Unknown Realms"
Book dealer goes missing
A detective sets out to find him
And he ends up on a murder spree
Or was it a hallucination?
Fell asleep last night here again in Flims
Switzerland said goodnight on a hotel
Phone to my girlfriend, caroline
This movie set's doing weird
Things to my head
I'm not Italian, I'm not Swiss
And I can't act, and I don't exactly fit in
Went to sleep last night again
Yeah, again, here in Flims, switzerland
And woke up to the sound
Of Michael Caine's voice, echoing
Down the hall and just like
Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now
I was doing push ups and sit ups and I
Was going fucking crazy and
Crawling the walls
Walked down the street and I
Pet a little kitty cat

She was sweet for a second
But then she turned into
A little fucking brat
And I came back and Jane
Fonda was in the lobby
And we talked about her father
And she was lost and couldn't find anybody
And we talked about the movie
With her and Jon Voight, "Coming Home"
She said she produced it
And that was a fact that I didn't know
And I asked her to dinner and she said
"I'll take a rain check"
If only I had class like
Ted Turner or Gregory Peck
Here I'm falling asleep again
In goddamn Flims, switzerland
In a closed down ski town with one
Coffee shop and a field of dandelions
And I look at the snow covered Alps
And I'm here until June 9th
Got some scenes this week, which is great
Because at this point I'm
Losing my fucking mind

Never mind all the other verses
I've written about Switzerland
There's new things going on in my life
Like my girlfriend got a new kitten
And a friend of mine gave out
My number to some crazy motherfucker
And I got all pissed off and she
Said, "who do you think you are
Mick fucking Jagger?"
I fell asleep last night in New Orleans
Just back from Switzerland, where
Like I said, i was going insane
And I went and got oysters on the
Half shell and some blackened alligator
Then I called my friend in Ohio and I
Flew up there and I stayed with her
Went back to Europe for a tour
And I was watching TV
There were missiles flying back and
Forth from Gaza to Tel-Aviv
And it concerned me cause I've
Got friends over there
When I talk to them on the phone I can
Hear it in their voice that they're scared
Some shit went down on tour and I had
To let go one of my band guys
And it hurt me so much that for
A solid forty-five minutes I cried
Came to my room and he said, "Mark
I really needed this job"
I said, "it's tough love my friend
Take some time off and we'll make
Music again one day I promise"
Got back from Europe and it was
Labor Day and I went walking
And I laid in the sun all day and I
Called my friend Jude and we got to talking
Jude's the widow of my old friend, Tim
I said, "whatever you do, please
Don't ask me about Switzerland"

Then my dad called about someone we love
I put a check in the mail
Gotta do what I gotta do
When push comes to shove
I hear her voice sometimes and
It's an octave higher
Cause she gets weak from the
Drugs that dehydrate her
It's hard to handle but I
Just keep keeping busy
Traveling and playing and writing
'til I'm fucking dizzy
Some people love what I do
And some get fucking pissy
But, I don't give a fuck
One day they're all gonna miss me
One year ago I was in a
Car with a handicapped kid i said
"so what are you gonna do with your
Life?" and he sat there blank and I said
"okay you think about it a minute"
And a few minutes passed and I said, "so
What are you gonna do with your life
It's been a minute"
And he said, "I'm just gonna, I'm
Just gonna, I'm just gonna
I'm just gonna live it"

I'm going to sleep tonight and
I can't fall asleep
Listening to the high pitched foghorns
Of the Carquinez Strait
They sound like a cacophony
Of piccolos and flutes, they echo all night
And I just turned forty-eight and I spent
Seventeen grand on the
Mayweather-Pacquiao fight
Going to sleep tonight with
A goddamn ear infection
I broke another tooth on a
Piece of hard bread
And my gums are fucking hurting
And my friend Ben went on a 50k
Race and he broke his wrist
And he called me up the other day and he
Asked me to join him as his guitarist
To play with him in San Francisco
February 23rd and I said, "yes, sir, thank
You, have a good day, sir"

So, I played last night with Ben at
The Swedish American Hall, and, man
I was so nervous that I was
Gonna hit the wrong guitar chords
But Ben sang
Beautifully and everything fell together
Pretty well what
A nice combination that was Ben singing
Me on guitar, and a great pianist
Named Zac Rae caroline was there
And so was Ben's girlfriend Rachel
They both loved the show

I talked to Bob Mould afterwards
And I told him about how
Me listening to Candy Apple
Grey on a sunny day at an old
Girlfriend's house made it into some lyrics
And I hoped that someday they'd make it into
A song it was a pretty funny night

Earlier at dinner, I got picked on a
Little for still having a flip phone
But after the show some guy walked
Into the backstage area and was
In the world they said
He was a physicist or something like that
And I pulled out my phone to
Check the time he pulled
His phone out and pointed out that he had the
Exact same phone that I
Did everyone was laughing
And there was some girls looking at us like
Our phones were really gross or something

We were all getting pretty tired
Ben and his friends
Took off caroline came back to my apartment
We watched part three of the HBO series The
Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst

It's February 24th
And I still feel a little high from
How good everything felt last night