lirik lagu dave malloy - quarters
vi. quarters
sadie
after the karaoke incident
i started to feel like my villagers were getting sick of me
hey zippy!
zippy
ohh uh hi sadie
i’m being alone with my thoughts today—
sadie
my time played was averaging around…14 hours a day by this point?
but i had a lot of work to do!
i had decided to make something special for my villagers:
a carnival!
in my grandparents’ town
every summer there came a carnival
for the festival of fish
my sister and i would eat fried cod and french fries with vinegar
throwing ping pong b~lls in goldfish bowls
and flying through the sky on jankity rides—
wolf
step right up to the house of mirrors!
ride the death~defying matterh~rn!
sadie
and of course, hitting the arcade
this one time
when i was 11
my grandma gave me
sadie, susan, beckett & wolf
a roll of quarters
sadie
she was a little bit crazy ‘bout coins;
grandpa had his woodshed and grandma had her coins!
sadie, susan & beckett
she’d sit at the dining room table with huge plastic cheese puff tubs
sadie
spilling out with coins
sadie, susan & beckett
collecting state quarters
and checking the years on her pennies
grandfather
and don’t go wasting it all on video games sadie!
sadie
i won’t grandpa!
and i meant it; i wanted to save it for something special
so when we went to the arcade
i said, one game of ms. pac~man, and that’s it
but this time they had a row of those machines
where you put in a quarter
and it rolls down a little slide
and lands in front of a little pushing machine
that pushes everything to the edge
wolf
come try your hand at the coin pusher!
fortune and delight await!
sadie, susan, beckett & wolf
quarters, prizes, treats, dollars
sadie
so many quarters!
and they’re all right there
on a razor’s edge
just about to
just about to fall
and if something falls
you win it
quarter in
roll
clink
push push push push push push
nothing falls
nothing falls
quarter in
roll
clink
push push push push push push
nothing falls
nothing falls
i could see that if i kept pouring quarters in
i could win
quarter in
roll
clink
push push push push push push
2 quarters fall!
okay
3 in
2 out
1 down
stick around
one might fall
one might fall
sadie & susan
quarter in
roll
clink
push push push push push push
nothing falls
nothing falls
quarter in
roll
clink
push push push push push push
2 quarters fall!
sadie
okay
5 in
3 out
2 down
stick around
one might fall
sadie, susan & beckett
quarter in
roll
clink
push push push push push push
nothing falls
quarter in
roll
clink
push push push push push push
1 quarter falls!
quarter in
roll
clink
push push push push push push
nothing falls
quarter in
roll
clink
push push push push push push
3 quarters fall!
quarter in
roll
clink
push push push push push push
nothing falls
quarter in
roll
clink
push push push push push push
3 quarters fall!
quarter in
roll
clink
push push push push push push
2 quarters fall!
quarter in
roll
clink
push push push push push push
nothing falls
quarter in
roll
clink
push push push push push push
nothing falls
quarter in
roll
clink
push push push push push push
push push
sadie
until all 40 quarters
were gone
just…gone
i held the empty orange wrapper in my hands
torn in a spiral
what happened?
where did i go?
i am 11
i walk home
past the docks
past the putt~putt course
over the river
and through the woods
to the white gravel driveway
of my grandparent’s house
(grandmother and grandfather appear, sorting coins and whittling.)
where my grandma sits
waiting for me at the dining room table
while grandpa whittles in his perfect brown leather recliner
please don’t ask me about the carnival
grandmother
sadie?
honey?
how was the carnival?
sadie
please don’t ask me what i did
grandfather
what did you do sadie?
sadie
please don’t ask me where my roll of quarters went
grandmother
you didn’t spend all your quarters did you?
sadie
see there’s this cl!cking in my head
grandmother
sadie
sadie
when certain things line up
grandfather
what’s that grandma?
did our little girl do something foolish?
sadie
when like is put with like
and there is order
grandmother
oh sadie
sadie
i couldn’t stop!
i couldn’t help it!
there is a me in charge of me sometimes that is not me!
i always thought these cl!cks in my head were just a funny quirk
but maybe
maybe it’s more serious than i thought
14 hours a day—
zippy
aw sadie. you’re always welcome in the village
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