Falling Kite in The Wheat

这首歌写的是克非还没有长大以前。

麦田、小河、土角厝、波斯菊、脚踏车、风筝，还有小黑。
那时候世界还很小，小到一条没有名字的河，就可以装下一整个下午。

很晚才知道，有些离开是从很小的时候开始的。
风筝落进麦田里，没有人跑过来接住。

歌唱回那个河边，陪伴一个安静的小孩。
小黑追著骑脚踏车、放风筝的小非。
风一直吹。
风筝线割断了几株麦子，麦子没有说话。

小非从来都懂。
只是后来才知道，那个感受，大人用两个字就可以说完。

失落。

shoegaze, dream pop, slowcore, alternative rock

Compose and Arrange: Minzer C. Lee
Lyrics and Vocal: Christopher R

I was a child of wheat fields
where the river forgot its name
mud-brick walls held the afternoon
and the wind kept calling me the same

Cosmos flowers by the roadside
pink against the dust and sun
Xiaohei ran beside my bicycle
like he knew I would be gone

Let the wheat bend over me
let the sky fall slowly down
I was only half a body
in a disappearing town

Hold the kite string in my hand
hold the river in my chest
I was young enough to vanish
and call it rest

The earth house cracked in summer
but it never let us go
Grandma said old walls remember
all the names we outgrow

I didn’t know sorrow
I didn’t know its name
I only knew the wheat fields
when the wind came

Now the city wakes without me
coffee cold beside the bed
but somewhere by that nameless water
a child is still not dead

No one caught me in the wheat
no one called me from the edge
the kite fell softly in the wheat
and no one came for me

Let the wheat bend over me
let the years come crashing down
I was born inside the feedback
of a disappearing town

Hold the kite string in my hand
hold the river in my chest
I was young enough to vanish
but not young enough to rest

Xiaohei, don’t follow me
Xiaohei, don’t follow me
I’m only wind now
through the wheat