Juicybear's Playground -- Alone with Everybody

Don't Think Twice, It's Alright - Bob Dylan
Dylan once introduced "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" as
"a statement that maybe you can say to make yourself feel better... as if you were talking to yourself."


It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
If you don’t know by now
An' it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
It’ll never do some how.
When your rooster crows at the break of dawn
Look out your window and I'll be gone
You're the reason I'm trav'lin' on
But don't think twice, it's all right

An' It ain't no use in turnin' on your light, babe
The light I never knowed
An' it ain't no use in turnin' on your light, babe
I'm on the dark side of the road
but I wish there was somethin' you would do or say
To try and make me change my mind and stay
We never did too much talkin' anyway
But don't think twice, it's all right

So It ain't no use in callin' out my name, gal
Like you never done before
An' It ain't no use in callin' out my name, gal
I can't hear any more
I'm a-thinkin' and a-wond'rin' walkin' down the road
I once loved a woman, a child I'm told
I give her my heart but she wanted my soul
But don't think twice, it's all right

So long, oh~ Honey Babe
Where I'm bound, I can't tell
But Goodbye's too good a word, babe
So I'll just say fare thee well
I ain't sayin' you treated me unkind
You could have done better but I don't mind
You just kinda wasted my precious time
Don't think twice, it's all right

怎麼看我也不像是會推薦Bob Dylan的人，
不是不喜歡（其實還蠻常放出來聽的），而是詞太難......。
大部分的歌我看了半天歌詞也還是不知道在唱什麼......（囧！）
很好聽是真的，只是不懂詞在唱什麼，總覺得隔了一層......，
不過這兩首，是我少數聽了還能有感覺體會的歌，當然要推薦一下囉！
[註：平反一下，後來仔細把詞都調出來看，其實他也沒有所有的歌都那麼難懂啦～
不過我這沒耐心的人，大概當初看一兩首不懂就直接歸為難懂的詞放棄了，
其實他有些歌詞句還是很平易近人的啦～哈：P]

第一首「Don't Think Twice, It's Alright」，我非常喜歡......
其實是......聽了會覺得頗為百感交集的歌（都叫你不要多想了～囧），
彷彿......記憶裡真的曾經有人跟我講過類似的話？
（不確定是不是真的有人講過？還是作夢或喝醉時自己胡亂跟自己說的？）
總之是.....一首讓現在心腸明明已經很硬的我（而且應該會越來越硬），
不小心聽到還差點要落淚的歌（笑）。
彷彿是......裡面包含了太多想跟自己說的，想跟別人說的話，不過......終究都沒有說，
但......Don't Think Twice, It's Alright，所以，也沒有關係了。（笑）

歌詞好在沒有難句，大概不會有理解上的問題吧！只是表述的情緒有點複雜......
（雖然我朋友聽了以後還是言簡意賅的總結：
"不會啊！非常簡單明瞭，就是一個不乾脆的人在那喃喃自語嘛～"）
但......（苦笑）不知道怎麼說耶......有時真的很難把什麼都講清楚，然後全部放開弄得分明的，
有些話可以說出來，但更多的是說不出來的；
有些事可以做的更好，但更多時候我們都沒能把它做的更好......，
然而，時間無法停止，也無法倒退，所以......我很喜歡歌曲title的那句話「Don't Think Twice, It's Alright」，
雖然沒有辦法，但像跳舞一樣，一旦下了舞池，就要不斷跳下去，
偶然踩錯了腳，也只能跟自己說：Don't Think Twice, It's Alright......

下一首歌「Desolation Row」有點長，不過，難得的是其中幾個"典"/"點"我竟然還有跟上......（笑）
當然沒有到全部的人物我都認識，不過這也不是重點（我沒有要去考證他的歌詞啦><），
重點應該是說，我蠻喜歡他"借用"這些人物寫的一些句子......
如果不是偶然聽到那些句子很有些觸動，我也不會去翻歌詞來看。
不過，這其實真的是很妙的一首歌（雖然我可能只領略了其中的10％也不一定？囧）
好像就是......讓人感覺到：啊～人生其實是這麼帶點荒謬，帶點實際，不是像童話故事中那麼簡單單純......，
每個人都是這樣，跌跌撞撞在自己小小的人生中努力，
雖然最後可能還是一片荒蕪......不過，總也是留下那麼一點努力的痕跡不是嗎？
所以如果沒有體驗過這樣一點荒蕪感的人，請不要寫信給我～（笑）。

註：歌很長，所以下面itune的分享沒有完整，歌詞也沒有完全對應到（囧）......
有興趣的朋友請去找Highway 61 Revisited專輯來聽吧！（推整張專輯喔）^^b

Desolation Row - Bob Dylan


Desolation Row
They're selling postcards of the hanging
They're painting the passports brown
The beauty parlor is filled with sailors
The circus is in town
Here comes the blind commissioner
They've got him in a trance
One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker
The other is in his pants
And the riot squad they're restless
They need somewhere to go
As Lady and I look out tonight
From Desolation Row

Cinderella, she seems so easy
"It takes one to know one," she smiles
And puts her hands in her back pockets
Bette Davis style
And in comes Romeo, he's moaning
"You Belong to Me I Believe"
And someone says," You're in the wrong place, my friend
You better leave"
And the only sound that's left
After the ambulances go
Is Cinderella sweeping up
On Desolation Row

Now the moon is almost hidden
The stars are beginning to hide
The fortunetelling lady
Has even taken all her things inside
All except for Cain and Abel
And the hunchback of Notre Dame
Everybody is making love
Or else expecting rain
And the Good Samaritan, he's dressing
He's getting ready for the show
He's going to the carnival tonight
On Desolation Row

Now Ophelia, she's 'neath the window
For her I feel so afraid
On her twenty-second birthday
She already is an old maid

To her, death is quite romantic
She wears an iron vest
Her profession's her religion
Her sin is her lifelessness
And though her eyes are fixed upon
Noah's great rainbow
She spends her time peeking
Into Desolation Row

Einstein, disguised as Robin Hood
With his memories in a trunk
Passed this way an hour ago
With his friend, a jealous monk
He looked so immaculately frightful
As he bummed a cigarette
Then he went off sniffing drainpipes
And reciting the alphabet
Now you would not think to look at him
But he was famous long ago
For playing the electric violin
On Desolation Row

Dr. Filth, he keeps his world
Inside of a leather cup
But all his sexless patients
They're trying to blow it up
Now his nurse, some local loser
She's in charge of the cyanide hole
And she also keeps the cards that read
"Have Mercy on His Soul"
They all play on penny whistles
You can hear them blow
If you lean your head out far enough
From Desolation Row

Across the street they've nailed the curtains
They're getting ready for the feast
The Phantom of the Opera
A perfect image of a priest
They're spoonfeeding Casanova
To get him to feel more assured
Then they'll kill him with self-confidence
After poisoning him with words

And the Phantom's shouting to skinny girls
"Get Outa Here If You Don't Know
Casanova is just being punished for going
To Desolation Row"

Now at midnight all the agents
And the superhuman crew
Come out and round up everyone
That knows more than they do
Then they bring them to the factory
Where the heart-attack machine
Is strapped across their shoulders
And then the kerosene
Is brought down from the castles
By insurance men who go
Check to see that nobody is escaping
To Desolation Row

Praise be to Nero's Neptune
The Titanic sails at dawn
And everybody's shouting
"Which Side Are You On?"
And Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot
Fighting in the captain's tower
While calypso singers laugh at them
And fishermen hold flowers
Between the windows of the sea
Where lovely mermaids flow
And nobody has to think too much
About Desolation Row

Yes, I received your letter yesterday
(About the time the door knob broke)
When you asked how I was doing
Was that some kind of joke?
All these people that you mention
Yes, I know them, they're quite lame
I had to rearrange their faces
And give them all another name
Right now I can't read too good
Don't send me no more letters no
Not unless you mail them
From Desolation Row

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