无尽的前沿

这首<Gypsy>是民谣才女Suzanne Vega成名前的作品，写于1978年（19岁啊～～），差不多十年之后才收录在经典专辑<Solitude Standing>中，和歌词相对阴郁的邻居们相比尤显清新

You come from far away
With pictures in your eyes
Of coffeeshops and morning streets
In the blue and silent sunrise
But night is the cathedral
Where we recognized the sign
We strangers know each other now
As part of the whole design
Oh, hold me like a baby
That will not fall asleep
Curl me up inside you
And let me hear you through the heat

在日后的某次访谈中提到过这首歌的创作背景，乃是19岁的Vega为纪念童子军野营时的教官男友所作（难道是亨伯特先生的同道不成＃＃），加州果然是发酵恋情的胜地呐。。

You are the jester of this courtyard
With a smile like a girl's
Distracted by the women
With the dimples and the curls
By the pretty and the mischievous
By the timid and the blessed
By the blowing skirts of ladies
Who promise to gather you to their breast
Oh, hold me like a baby
That will not fall asleep
Curl me up inside you
And let me hear you through the heat

从这段来看，我们的教官同学还是相当“博爱”的说，绝对属于大众情人类型，70年代的风尚在其中也可见一斑，这些"flower people"的后辈们在追求快乐方面绝对不输给当年的hippie呢

You have hands of raining water
And that earring in your ear
The wisdom on your face
Denies the number of your years
With the fingers of the potter
And the laughing tale of the fool
The arranger of disorder
With your strange and simple rules
Yes now I've met me another spinner
Of strange and gauzy threads
With a long and slender body
And a bump upon the head
Oh, hold me like a baby
That will not fall asleep
Curl me up inside you
And let me hear you through the heat

这几句还是在描绘那位的可人之处，其中"The wisdom on your face denies the number of your years"堪属妙笔，不过天下没有不散的筵席，Vega同学也要说byebye了～～

With a long and slender body
And the sweetest softest hands
And we'll blow away forever soon
And go on to different lands
And please do not ever look for me
But with me you will stay
And you will hear yourself in song
Blowing by one day
Oh, hold me like a baby
That will not fall asleep
Curl me up inside you
And let me hear you through the heat

少年时代的爱情故事娓娓道来，简单、美丽，而歌词却又如此老练，若干年后Vega发表了自己的文集，不禁想找来一读，看看还有多少美文佳句不及写入歌谣。当然，我们的教官同学也有收获，当他听到这首<Gypsy>，尤其是最后这句"you will hear yourself in song blowing by one day"时，不知有何感想，会不会还记得当年的小女孩和甜蜜往事呢。。。

选自Suzanne Vega专辑《Beauty & Crime》（2007）

New York City spread herself before you
With her bangles and her spangles and her stars
You were impressed with the city so undressed
You had to go out cruising all the bars
Your business trip extended through the weekend
Suburban boy here for your first time
From the 27th floor above the midtown roar
You were startled by her beauty and her crime
And she's every girl you've seen in every movie
Every dame you've ever known on late night TV
In her steam and steel is the passion you feel
Endlessly
New York is a woman she'll make you cry
And to her you're just another guy

Look down and see her ruined places
Smoke and ash still rising to the sky
She's happy that you're here but when you disappear
She won't know that you're gone to say goodbye
New York is a woman she'll make you cry
And to her you're just another guy
And she's every girl you've seen in every movie
Every dame you've ever known on late night tv
In her steam and steel is the passion you feel
Desperately
New York is a woman she'll make you cry
And to her you're just another guy

p.s. 作为正牌纽约客，Vega大姐把转投爵士名厂Bluenote旗下的第一张唱片献给了这座城市，多少有几分回顾的味道在。音乐依旧是淡淡飘来，吟唱依旧是慵懒随性，从民谣摇滚到民谣蓝调，90年代在摇滚界稍稍试水之后，现在终点又回到起点。。。Anyway，咱们还是喜欢这口呐～～