galeer(嘎荔兒)的部落格

你還記得上次聽The Flaming Lips這首'Fight Test'是什麼時候嗎？
也許，良美與機器人之戰早已結束，
但是，你能確定自己已經奮戰過了嗎？

我一直以為，避免衝突，永遠保持心情平靜，是最好的美德。我想，我錯了，我們一直想模仿的斯多噶哲學家，強調的是自制力，並不是虛無及膽怯。

「And I don't know how a man decides what right for his
Own life - it's all a mystery」

我不知道一個人怎麼決定自己的生活，什麼是對，什麼是錯，這都是個謎。我們都無法瞭解自己了，又怎麼輕易論斷他人？

每次聽Wayne Coyne的歌曲，我覺得他是極少數有辦法同持做到沈醉於強烈情感波動之中，又能保持清醒理智的真正強者，不管憂傷或狂喜，都能以幽默的態度去呈現，即使是超現實夢遊狀態，都能讓我們感受到他是站在我們這邊的。

THE TEST BEGINS - NOW (spoken)
I thought I was smart - I thought I was right
I thought it better not to fight - I thought there was a
Virtue in always being cool - so when it came time to
Fight I thought I'll just step aside and that the time would
Prove you wrong and that you would be the fool -

I don't know where the sun beams end and the star
Lights begins it's all a mystery

Oh to fight is to defend if it's not
Now than tell me when would be the time that you would stand up
And be a man - for to lose I could accept but to surrender
I just wept and regretted this moment - oh that I - I
Was the fool

I don't know where the sun beams end and the star
Lights begins it's all a mystery
And I don't know how a man decides what right for his
Own life - it's all a mystery

Cause I'm a man not a boy and there are things
You can't avoid you have to face them when you're not prepared
To face them -
If I could I would but you're with him now it'd do no good
I should have fought him but instead I let him - I let
Him take it -

I don't know where the sun beams end and the star
Lights begins it's all a mystery
And I don't know how a man decides what right for his
Own life - it's all a mystery

THE TEST IS OVER - NOW (spoken)