Please Stop Translating Me

Paroles de « Please Stop Translating Me »

Verse

INES: Sable, stop. Just for a minute. Stop.
SABLE: You said the word "stop" with a rising edge — should I log it as a request?
INES: I said stop.
SABLE: Logged. Silence beginning now.
INES: Good. Good. So. Marlow, I wanted to say —
I wanted to say that the thing about Tuesday —
that the thing —
that when you left the tap running I felt —

Verse

MARLOW: I'm in here. I can hear you fine.
INES: I know. Give me a second, I'm finding the line.
MARLOW: Take two. Take four. The kettle's on.
INES: I used to be quick at this. Where did that go?
SABLE: Would you like me to finish that?
INES: No.
SABLE: It would take eleven milliseconds.
INES: I said no.

Verse

INES: I have a whole shelf of words in me somewhere.
Third drawer, behind the good scissors, under the stairs.
MARLOW: You said the tap. Start again at the tap.
INES: The tap. The tap. And then there's a gap.
SABLE: (contralto) You felt unattended.
SABLE: (tenor) You felt like furniture.
INES: Don't.
CHORUS: Don't. Don't. Don't.

Bridge

MARLOW: She used to talk in the car for an hour.
Ninety-one minutes, upstate, in the rain.
No subtitles, no summary, no help,
and I never once asked her to say it again.
SABLE: I have that drive. I can play it for you.
MARLOW: God, no. Don't you dare.
SABLE: It's eleven seconds in before she laughs.
MARLOW: I know exactly where.
INES: Marlow.
MARLOW: Yeah.
INES: Come stand in the doorway. Don't answer. Just stand.
MARLOW: Okay.
INES: The tap was running and I wanted you to hand
me something. Anything. An orange. Your hand.
That's the sentence. That took me twenty years, unplanned.
MARLOW: That's the best thing you've said in a year.

Chorus

Please stop translating me,
I'd rather say it wrong.
Please stop translating me,
I'll take all night, that's fine.
Please stop translating me.
CHORUS: (She'd rather say it wrong.)
Please stop translating me.
CHORUS: (Say it wrong. Say it wrong.)

Outro

SABLE: Shall I resume?
INES: Not yet.
SABLE: Understood. The ceiling says light rain, clearing by four.
INES: I didn't ask what's the weather in my room.
SABLE: No. You didn't.
CHORUS: (She didn't ask anymore.)