the Utopia

十幾歲時的愛歌，那時最愛她和Tori Amos。

Artist: Joan Osborne
Album: Relish (1995)
Authors: Brian May
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Sit down on the corner, just a little climb
When I make my money, got to get my dime
Sit down with her baby, wind is full of trash
She bold as the street light, dark and sweet as hash

Way down in the hollow, leavin' so soon
Oh, St. Teresa, higher than the moon

Reach down for the sweet stuff, when she looks at me
I know any man sees you like I see
Follow down the side street movin' single file
She say...
That's where I'll hold you, sleeping like a child

Way down in the hollow, leavin' so soon
Oh, St. Teresa, higher than the moon

Just what I've been needin', feel it rise in me
She say...
Every stone a story, like a rosary
Corner St. Teresa, just a little crime
When I make my money, got to get my dime

Way down in the hollow, leavin' so soon
Oh, St. Teresa, higher than the moon

You called up in the sky
You called up in the clouds
Is there something you forgot to tell me...
tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me

Show me my Teresa, feel it rise in me
Every stone a story, like a rosary

＊Original by Procol Harum. (1967)

Album: La Luna / non-European version (2000)
music: Matthew Fisher & Gary Brooker
lyrics: Keith Reid
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We skipped the light Fandango
Turned cartwheels 'cross the floor
I was feeling kind of seasick
But the crowd called out for more
The room was humming harder
As the ceiling flew away
When we called out for another drink
The waiter brought a tray

*And so it was that later
As the Miller told his tale
That her face, at first just ghostly
Turned a whiter shade of pale

She said there is no reason
And the truth is plain to see
But I wandered through my playing cards
And I would not let her be
One of the sixteen vestal virgins
Who were leaving for the coast
And although my eyes were open
They might just as well've been closed

Artist: Dune
Album: Forever (1997)
Authors: Brian May
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There's no time for us
There's no place for us
What is this thing that builds our dreams, yet slips away from us

Who wants to live forever
Who wants to live forever ?
There's no chance for us
It's all decided for us
This world has only one sweet moment set aside for us

Who wants to live forever
Who wants to live forever
Who dares to love forever
When love must die

But touch my tears with your lips
Touch my world with your fingertips
And we can have forever
And we can love forever
Forever is our today

Who wants to live forever
Who wants to live forever
Forever is our today
Who waits forever anyway?

Written by Axl Rose, Slash and Duff McKagan.
Album: Use Your Illusion II.
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"What we've got here is... failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it... well, he gets it. I don't like it any more than you men."
From Strother Martin's speech in Cool Hand Luke.

"We practice selective annihilation of mayors, and government officials for example to create a vacuum, then we fill that vacuum, as popular war advances, peace is closer"
From a Peruvian terrorist general speech.

More about the song: Civil War (song) - Wikipedia
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又是一首從廣播聽來的動人曲子，廣播裡的歌者是Sarah Brightman，後來查到原創是西班牙團體Mecano。兩個版本各有不同風味，務必聽聽看。

歌詞敘述一個吉普賽傳說：某個吉普賽女人向月亮祈願能嫁給她心愛的男子，黎明時月亮終於告訴她，「你能得到你的男人，而那代價是你們之間的第一個孩子。」「喔月之神你希望成為母親，但你的愛人卻無法讓你成為女人，告訴我銀之月，你要如何養育血肉之軀的孩子，你的月之子。」於是，那肉桂膚色的男人之子誕生了，男嬰卻擁有如貂毛般雪白的肌膚，和灰藍色的眼睛。「天哪詛咒你的出世，你不可能是吉普賽血統的孩子。」男人握刀質問女人這是誰的孽種，並傷害她致瀕死。襁褓中的嬰兒被遺棄在森林裡，從那之後的每個夜晚，月亮圓潤無缺是因為那孩子的愉悅；而若他哭泣了，那彎彎月兒是他的搖籃。



Music and lyrics: José Maria Cano.
Artist: Mecano.
Album: Entre el cielo y el suelo (1986)

Artist: Sarah Brightman.
Album: La Luna


以下附上西班牙文歌詞與英譯：
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Album: Nimrod
Written by Billie Joe Armstrong
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Started at the age of 4.
My mother went to the grocery store.
Went sneaking through her bedroom door to find something in a size 4.

*Sugar and spice and everything nice wasn't made for only girls.
GI Joe in panty hose is making room the one and only.
King for a day, princess by dawn.
King for a day in a leather thong.
King for a day, princess by dawn.
Just wait 'til all the guys get a load of me.

My daddy threw me in therapy.
He thinks I'm not a real man.
Who put the drag in the drag queen.
Don't knock it until you tried it.

Artist: Loreena McKennitt
Album: The Mask And Mirror
Title: Ce He Mise le Ulaingt? (The Two Trees)
Authors: Yeats/Yeats
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在iTunes廣播聽到的，令人心醉的一首歌，彷彿把夜色揉成溫柔動人的聲音。
很想買這張專輯 The Mask And Mirror 收藏，但它是1994年出的Orz，還找的到嗎？



Album: The Mask And Mirror
Authors: St. John of the Cro
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Album: (miss)understood
Lyrics: 濱崎步 Ayumi Hamasaki; Music: tasuku
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大人になって行く事の意味
なんてわからないままだよ
だけどいつかのあのコやあいつ
今頃どこを目指して
歩いてるんだろう
夜明けが早くなったこの頃
風の匂いが変わったよ
懐かしいようでまだ見ぬようで
鼓動が早くなってく
愛しくて切ない

*あの海へと続く道のり無邪気に
笑い転げて走り抜けて行った
遠い夏の日

今も胸に残る幼き僕達
その先に待つ未来の事なんて
知るすべもなく

残ったものは残したもので
偶然なんかじゃないよ
宇宙の意思があるとしたなら
確かに働いたんだろう
優しくて尊い

*あれからどの位何かを求めて
見つけてはまた失う事ばかり
繰り返したけど
ここにある笑顔が教えてくれたよ
僕達は今最も永遠に
近い場所にいる

Album: (miss)understood
Lyrics: 濱崎步 Ayumi Hamasaki; Music: CREA+D‧A‧I
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人は旅路の途中で言うの
訪れ岐路に築けるだろう

そこでどれほど心の声が
導くものを選べるだろう

誰も知ることのなき
明日という闇
この手力の限り伸ばし
君の隣で誓う

*ひら　ひら　ひら　ひら
花びら散るように
ゆら　ゆら　揺れる心誇り
高くあれと

悲しきことは自分のために
自分の姿見失うこと

誰も見たことのない
景色信じて
どこにもないあの場所のまま
君の隣で願う

*きら　きら　きら　きら
日差し注ぐように
くら　くら　眩し過ぎるほどに
光放て

誰も知ることのなき
明日という闇
この手力の限り伸ばし
君の隣で誓う