Reggie Watts - We Live on an Island [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

(Intro)

We live on an island
Island by the sea
No-no-no-no-no-no-no-no
Nobody knows
Know an island like me
Oh no
I grew up in Banana
I-mean-I grew up in Montana, yeah, so yeahhh

(oh yeah)
Surrounded by some water (an ISland)
(scatting)
(vocal bass sounds)
(scatting)
Watch out for Cobra commander (yeah yeah)
Watch out for Cobra commander
Watch out for Cobra commander
(scatting)
Eat your-eat your-eat your vegetables
(scatting)
I'm gonna-I'm gonna cut up little pieces of fruit, yes
To eat every day, to make you feel so good inside your tummay
Tummay
Tell me
Tell me RIGHT NOW

I, I been in love so many times before
It's hard to count
And when I fall in love again
I won't know if it's really love
'Cus I can't remember what it was the first time that I fell in love
'Cus it's a construct of a memory
It's a construct of a memory
But it's a feeling nonetheless and I've got res-pect that in the process
And everyone knows, everyone feels INside (vocalizations)
And that's life

I grew up on a thing that
Looked like some other thing that
Somebody could rec-og-nize
As is a thing that exists in time
Sometimes when I think of
All the things that I need so bad
Like a blueberry pie in the middle of the night
But they're very difficult, VEry hard to find
But this Neeew York
And you're supposed to (noise) every thing you wannnnt-at any given time
If you look hard enough

That's not necessarily true-yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo
And when I want to take a taxi
When I want to take a taxi
Sometimes I put hands in the air and say like I do really care
'Cus it's cold outside
The taxi drives on by and i say "you're a racist"
But then I under-then I understand that the taxi driver's black and that don't make no sense
I don't know what the fuck this island has become
Come
Come, yes
Let me tell you

It's 2am
2:30am-ish
I wanna take a taxi to the Brooklyn
The land of the Brook, yeah
Taxi driver stops
He rolls down the window partially
But I know his trick and I get in any way
And I say
(vocalizations)
I'm gonna make your night
I wanna take a ride with you to the land of Brook
Brooklyn, yeah yeah
Taxi driver says (guttural noises)
And then I'm like, what the fuck's your problem
IIt's a fare, and a fare is a fare, and you can't get-you can't get-
-you can't get upset about someone giving you business for the thing that you're supposed to be doing-
What the fuck is your problem, problem, problem, yeah
I don't understand it
I'll never understand iiiiit
Well sometimes you can put yourself in-that-position-but-still-doesn't-make-no-sense
(vocalizations) yeah, yeah yeah yeah
Whoa yeaaah

I wanna see the bridges
Pretty brooklyn-williamsburg-manhattan bridges
Don't want to take those tunnels they're so nasty in the dark
Ohhh-and-I-know-you-feel-the-same even if you live above 14th
You've got to admit
It's cuter down below
Ohhhh below
Ohhhh below