Don, Aman

By Slint

On Spiderland

Released on March 27, 1991

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[Intro]

Don stepped outside


[Verse 1]

It felt good to be alone

He wished he was drunk

He thought about something he just said

And how stupid it had sounded

He knew he should forget about it

And he decided to piss, but he couldn't

A plane passed silently overhead

The streetlights, and the buds on the trees and the night

Were still

It finally came, he took a deep breath

It made him feel strong, and determined

To go back inside


[Instrumental Break]


[Verse 2]

The light

Their backs

Their conversation

The couples, romancing, so natural

His friends stare

With eyes like the heads of nails

The others

Glances

With amusement, with evasion

With contempt, so distant

With malice for being a sty

In their engagement

Like swimming underwater in the darkness

Like walking through an empty house

Speaking to an imaginary audience

And being watched from outside by someone (Someone without a key)

He could not dance to anything


[Verse 3]

Don left, and drove

And howled, and laughed

At himself

He felt he knew what that was


[Instrumental Break]


[Verse 4]

Don woke up

And looked at the night before

He knew what he had to do

He was responsible

In the mirror

He saw his friend