Mama you sweet(妈妈天堂系列1) [ 2007-05-11 11:30 ]
“母亲·天堂”——很不愿涉足的伤感话题。只是,生老病死是人之常理,唯有的心愿是——面对时,我们不要心存遗憾,不要事后悔恨,更不要说:I
never appreciated my mother until it was too late to tell her…
“Mama you sweet”选自美国乡村民谣歌手Lucinda
Williams的最新专辑“West”(2007年发行)。整张专辑弥漫着化不开的忧伤,而专辑中多首曲子的创作灵感来源于Lucinda妈妈的逝世。“Mama
you sweet”就是这么一首悼念亡母的布鲁斯民谣。
就歌词而言,“Mama you sweet”颇有意象派诗歌的味道。歌手通过海洋的汹涌(heavy ocean)、双唇的干裂(cracks on
my lips)、心头的伤口(scars in my heart)等具体意象刻画了失去母亲的无限伤悲,这伤悲如此汹涌可以让坚墙轰然倒塌(pain
hits a wall),这伤悲如此躁动以至找不到疏通的缺口(not know which way to go)……
从音乐的角度来赏析,歌曲简单明快的旋律、质朴硬朗的吉他,歌手粗糙的嗓音、不加掩饰的抒情,均与歌词的意境达到了完美的统一。
听着这首歌,心头郁积的是伤感、伤感之外是感动,而在感动之间却享受着属于伤感的惬意。 |
Lyrics
Mama you
sweet
by Lucinda Williams
I love you Mama you sweet I love you Mama you sweet
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80 year old Lucille
Finley with her 105 year old mother | I
love you Mama you sweet I love you Mama you sweet I love you Mama you
sweet
With an ocean in my spirit And cracks on my lips And scars
in my heart And this burden on my hips
Ocean becomes heavy and tries To push its way out Through
these ancient eyes And the memories in my mouth
Ocean becomes tears That ebb and flow Over the lines in my
face And the pain in my soul
And pain hits a wall And doesn't know which way to go And
ocean says I'm crying now And tells pain to follow
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Lucinda Williams'
West, released February 13,2007 | And
pain courses through Every vein, every limb Trying to find a way
out Between the secrets in my skin
And secrets hold on Until they finally give in And they meet
up with ocean And tears again
And tears hand me a shovel Saying break beneath the
crust That binds earthly skin And buries all the trust
Somehow trust was caught Between the cracks on my lips And
the scars in my heart And this burden on my hips
I love you Mama you sweet
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