音樂是這世界上最美好的事

個人偏愛的美國Nebraska樂團Bright Eyes，新專輯《Cassadaga》竟在台灣有代理，距離美國發行（4/10）才一個禮拜，而向來以主流藝人為主的Billboard排行榜，更還被Bright Eyes攻佔下第四名（本週第一名是大補帖合輯NOW 24，先前才有The Shins攻下第二名、Modest Mouse攻下第一名的紀錄，是否意味著真正會買專輯的已愈來愈注重音樂本身？），還是因為之前做了首歌罵布希？...可是一堆人罵布希啊。

重點是新輯陣容堅強，請來M. Ward、Maria Taylor、Rachel Yamagata助陣，主腦Conor Oberst的抖音一樣迷人，先來看首發鄉村曲〈Four Winds〉，批判了一大～堆東西，難怪台下一直丟垃圾！（想看除了濁水溪公社外被台下觀眾攻擊、必須練就一身閃躲功的團請看）

Bright Eyes / Four Winds


眼尖的朋友有沒有看到Bright Eyes的Saddle Creek廠牌同門好友Maria Taylor呀？
Maria也才剛發行新專輯《Lynn Teeter Flower》唷！


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Bright Eyes / Four Winds

Your class, your caste, your country, sect, your name or your tribe
There's people always dying trying to keep them alive
There are bodies decomposing in containers tonight
In an abandoned building where

A squatter's made a mural of a Mexican girl
With fifteen cans of spray paint in a chemical swirl
She's standing in the ashes at the end of the world
Four winds blowing through her hair

But when great Satan's gone, the whore of Babylon
She just can't sustain the pressure where it's placed
She caves

The Bible's blind, the Torah's deaf, the Qu'ran's mute
If you burn them all together you get close to the truth still
They are pouring over sanskrit on the ivy league moons
While shadows lengthen in the sun

Cast on a school of meditation built to soften the times
And hold us at the center while the spiral unwinds
It's knocking over fences, crossing property lines
Four winds, cry until it comes

And it's the sum of man
Slouching towards Bethlehem
A heart just can't contain all of that empty space
It breaks, it breaks, it breaks

Well, I went back to my rented Cadillac and company jet
Like a newly orphaned refugee, retracing my steps
All the way to Cassadaga to commune with the dead
They said, "You'd better look alive"

And I was off to old Dakota where a genocide sleeps
In the black hills, the bad lands, the calloused east
I buried my ballast, I made my peace
Heard four winds leveling the pines

But when great Satan's gone, the whore of Babylon
She just can't remain with all that outer space
She breaks, she breaks, she caves, she caves

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