光 速 青 春

雖然只有一點點小小的月牙…。

最近映象唱片發行了便宜大碗又好料的恐怖合輯Dark Was The Night，其中除了好聽到哭爸的The National / So Far Around The Bend、Bon Iver、Grizzly Bear + Feist、Yo La Tengo、Riceboy Sleeps（今年會發專輯）、Dave Sitek / With A Girl Like You（最近Yo La Tengo發行的弄假成真也有收錄這首，原唱是英國的The Troggs，youtube上有些影像），在這麼浩大的31首歌陣容中，耳朵卻常常停留在Conor Oberst 和Gillian Welch合唱的Lua。

這首歌第一次聽到是在Bright Eyes的專輯（Bright Eyes就是Conor Oberst）I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning，馬上就被踢屁股，後來在天時地利人和的狀態之下，這首歌成了好長一陣子散步的必備曲，雖然歌詞總是記的零零散散，最後幾句總是會唱對。現在依然在抬頭看看天空和月亮的時候，想起這首歌。月亮只有一個，你也是只有一個，而我也只有一個。

記憶被困住了，關起盒子的人，卻還是自己。把距離拉開之後，才會知道自己當初為什麼要逃，才能確認身後的種種，有多麼重要。


Bright Eyes - Lua (Coachella 2005)


I know that it is freezing but I think we have to walk
I keep waving at the taxis; they keep turning their lights off
But Julie knows a party at some actor’s west side loft
Supplies are endless in the evening; by the morning they’ll be gone.

When everything gets lonely I can be my own best friend
I get a coffee and the paper; have my own conversations
With the sidewalk and the pigeons and my window reflection
The mask I polish in the evening, by the morning looks like shit.

I know you have a heavy heart; I can feel it when we kiss
So many men stronger than me have thrown their backs out trying to lift it
But me I’m not a gamble you can count on me to split
The love I sell you in the evening, by the morning won’t exist.

You’re looking skinny like a model with your eyes all painted black
You just keep going to the bathroom always say you’ll be right back
Well it takes one to know one, kid, I think you’ve got it bad
But what’s so easy in the evening, by the morning is such a drag.

I’ve got a flask inside my pocket we can share it on the train
If you promise to stay conscious I will try and do the same
We might die from medication, but we sure killed all the pain
But what was normal in the evening, by the morning seems insane.

And I’m not sure what the trouble was that started all of this
The reasons all have run away but the feeling never did
It’s not something I would recommend, but it is one way to live
Cause what is simple in the moonlight, by the morning never is
What’s so simple in the moonlight, now is so complicated
What’s so simple in the moonlight, so simple in the moonlight.