galeer(嘎荔兒)的部落格

當你三天三夜沒睡，回到甜蜜的家中，
倒頭就睡，像時鐘旋轉那樣睡姿也無所謂。
覺得年輕，就有很多事可做
也許放下筆，可以拋開煩惱
時機到來，回憶鮮活起來
 

2008年底，Matador廠推出了蘇格蘭搖滾樂隊Belle & Sebastian的live選輯「The BBC Sessions 」，收錄了1996年到2001年為BBC節目錄製的十四首現場錄音， 那個時候，他們很少現場演出，因此，這些版本滿珍貴的，與專輯相比較，可以更瞭解Belle & Sebastian最燦爛時候的樣貌。限量雙CD版本有2001年BBC Evening Session完整錄音，以及四首Jeepster Records時期從未發行的曲子。我想，大家最好奇的應該還是每次貝兒與賽巴斯汀的唱片封面吧，一系列的色調與人物，已經成為像The Smiths唱片那樣，足以觸動收集慾望。

And the moment will come when composure returns
Put a face on the world, turn your back to the wall
And you walk twenty yards with your head in the air
Down the Liberty Hill, where the fashion brigade
Look with curious eyes on your raggedy way
And for once in your life you have nothing to say
And could this be the time when somebody will come
To say, "Look at yourself, you're not much use to anyone"


Take a walk in the park, take a valium pill
Read the letter you got from the memory girl
But it takes more than this to make sense of the day
Yeah it takes more than milk to get rid of the taste
And you trusted to this, and you trusted to that
And when you saw it all come, it was waving the flag
Of the United States of Calamity, hey!
After all that you've done boy, Im sure you're going to pay


In the morning you come to the ladies salon
To get all fitted out for The Paperback Throne
But the people are living far away from the place
Where you wanted to help, it's a bit of a waste
And the puzzle will last till somebody will say
"There's a lot to be done while your head is still young"
If you put down your pen, leave your worries behind
Then the moment will come, and the memory will shine


Now the trouble is over, everybody got paid
Everybody is happy, they are glad that they came
Then you go to the place where you've finally found
You can look at yourself sleep the clock around



belle & sebastian live at lowlands festival 2006

Belle and Sebastian live at Amoeba Record Shop in Los Angeles March 2006


這首"Sleep The Clock Around"是1998年專輯「The Boy with the Arab Strap」的第二首歌，Stuart Murdoch與Isobel Campbell合唱，也是我最喜歡的Belle & Sebastian歌曲之一。


在youtube找到的演唱版本都是2006年左右的，距離專輯發行是八年之後，時間真的不會為任何人停留，再聽到這首歌，覺得世界真美好。