Dead Pony Blues

Op een zonnige ochtend slofte Radstaak langs het kanaal in Kleindochteren. Toen hij voorbij de Dochterensebrug was zag hij iets liggen. Hij naderde het vrolijke doek met manen en sterren dat over iets heen lag en zag ook een staart die er onderuit stak. Het was een klein paard, een pony waarschijnlijk. Het deed hem denken aan een blues van Nico Stai, hij humde hem zachtjes voor zich uit:

Dead Pony Blues

I seen a dead dead pony running through my dream


I seen the water water catching up with it


I got this cold cold feeling like I wont forget


and I need to make it stop
I need to make it stop

and you

you're sitting on the bathroom floor


drawing pictures


making sure it doesn't even show


but your mother's calling on the phone again


what you going to say now that it got so late?

one day you will wake up

and everything that you thought you would be


will be standing there staring right back at you


and I guess I should have said so


but I swear I didn't even know how to feel about it


when it walked right out on you

and there's a nervous calling running through the walls

and it's getting louder now


it's begging you to please


you know that slow thing humming at the other side of skin


it's what you listen to


when you run out of you

so I hope

I hope you really get it now


'cause there's a reason why you keep on running out of time


and I just seen it crawling under your skin


and it's making everything feel like it just shouldn't feel

one day you will wake up

and everything that you thought you would be


will be standing there staring right back at you


and I guess I should have said so


but I swear I didn't even know how to feel about it when


it walked right out on you

so hush hush

be quiet now


keep yourself under lock and key


you know the one thing that keeps running out?


you should not be chasing it


'cause it will just leave you falling on your knees


falling on your knees

Nico Stai 2008 Sin Paloma Music