當時的我不明白，原來青春最迷人的特質之一，正是倒楣。這些迅速累積、集體爆發、接二連三的衰事，原來造就了一種難以模仿的人生體驗。參考蘇格蘭格拉斯哥樂隊Travis於1998年寫下的〈Why
Does It Always Rain On Me?〉：「為何雨總是下在我身上？是因為我十七歲撒謊而被懲罰嗎？」（實情是他們連在隔年Glastonbury音樂祭表演這首歌，也都真的下起雨來）；而約莫與Travis當期成團的同鄉樂隊Camera
Obscura則在〈Let's Go Bowling〉哀悼：「朋友啊你們不會相信，我的青春歲月都被我糟蹋了…」。
從頭聽到尾、再忍不住倒帶重播，《My Maudlin Career》的流暢甜膩自是精彩，詞意動人。她說「我想要控制愛情，但卻無法留住它」（French
Navy），她說「你親在我的額頭上，這個吻讓我腦震盪」（My Maudlin Career），她說「不用說服我要抓緊你（you were a
catch），我早就買了這班車票」（You Told A Lie）…聽來八點檔的俗爛情節，卻緊湊得像是精心規劃的舞台劇，底下鋼琴、大提琴、中提琴、小提琴、號角、小喇叭等銅管樂器紛陳演奏，由製作人Jari
Haapalainen坐鎮指揮，優美得叫人心碎，鼓掌稱是。
Camera Obscura - Let's Go Bowling歌詞
I don't believe in anything so you may as well forget about me
It's time you took it upon yourself to go join the other team
Forget about me
Anyway, I got myself some bowling shoes
an' they are all that I can see
With all my might I scored a strike
My friend you wouldn't believe
My teenage years were wasted all on me
On Saturday I watched a film
It was black and white with Clark Gable in
I've seen that film one hundred times or more
How am I going to tell my friends
I won't be coming out with them no more?
Don't you know that I feel sad?
You only know how to get mad
Camera Obscura - French Navy
Camera Obscura - French Navy歌詞
I spent a week in a dusty library
Waiting for some words to jump at me
We met by a trick of fate
French navy, my sailor mate
We met by the moon on a silvery lake
You came my way
I said 'I want you to stay'
You with your dietary restrictions
Said you loved me with a lot of conviction
I was waiting to be struck by lightning
Waiting for somebody exciting like you
Oh the thing that you do
You make me go woo
With the things that you do you do you do
I wanted to control it
But love I couldn't hold it
I wanted to control it
But love I couldn't hold it
I'll be criticized for lending out my art
I was criticized for letting you break my heart
Why would I stand for disappointed looks?
Fooling all but I'm on tenderhooks ooh with the looks
On tenderhooks
Ooh, with the looks, the looks, the looks
I wanted to control it
But love I couldn't hold it
I wanted to control it
But love I couldn't hold it
Relationships were something I used to do
Convince me they are better for me and you
We met by a trick of fate
French navy my sailor
I wanted to control it
But love I couldn't hold it
I wanted to control it
But love I couldn't hold it
Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career歌詞
You kissed me on the forehead (in Spain)
Now these kisses give me concussion
We were love at first sight
Now this crush is crushing
I retraced your steps through the city of romance lazily
I took to the desert with your harshest words
And they saved me
I'll bail you out again I've got the readies
I'm not a child I know we're not going steady
Your pain's gigantic
But [it's] not as big as your ego
I promise not to abandon you
Please let me go
I harbored worried feelings
Like they were worth protecting
You say I'm too kind and sentimental
Like you could catch affection
In your eyes there's a sadness enough
To kill the both of us
Are those eyes overrated?
They make me want to give up on love
I'll brace myself for the loneliness
Say hello to feeling[s] that I (despise) [detest]
This maudlin career must come to an end
I don't want to be sad again
This maudlin career must come to an end
I don't want to be sad again
[This maudlin career must come to an end
I don't want to be sad again
This maudlin career must come to an end
I don't want to be sad again
This maudlin career must come to an end
I don't want to be sad again
Camera Obscura - You Told A Lie
Camera Obscura - You Told A Lie歌詞
If you were a season you would be in bloom
I wish I had good reason to see you soon
(There's) No need to convince me that you're a catch
I bought my ticket I'm sold at last
Who was it that said that love conquers all?
He was a fool 'cause it doesn't at all
Should I believe you told a lie?
On the way to my heart and on the way back
Are my eyes the coldest blue?
You said once this was true
If it is I don't know what I'll do
'Cause I'm stuck with them
And they're stuck on you
Was I a quiet little nothing
Who never challenged anyone?
[Or] was I a lazy lazy snake?
Do you want me to be a gentle diplomat?
[Or] you can beg and you can plead
Are my eyes the coldest blue?
You said once this was true
[And] if it is I don't know what I'll do
'Cause I'm stuck with them
And they're stuck on you
Are my eyes the coldest blue?
You said once this was true
And if it is I don't know what I'll do
'Cause I'm stuck with them
And they're stuck on you
'Cause I'm stuck with them
And they're stuck on you
I'm stuck with them
When they're stuck on you
I'm stuck with them
And they're stuck on you
Maudlin Career聽完，最近反復在聽C家舊歌，爛熟的eighties fan裏面這樣唱，
“You said your life would be the death of you.
Tell me do you wash your hair in honey dew?
And long for all of them to fall in love with you.
But they never do.
Oh they never do”
