让你万劫不复的十首摄人心魄经典英文歌曲
2007-12-17 17:27阅读：
一、The Beatles -
Yesterday
常有人自称怀旧，什么叫怀旧？常听人感叹失落，什么叫失落？
没有听过yesterday，真的不知道能有这样的一种声音，来立体的将似水流年娓娓道来。慵懒的声线不仅诉说着爱情的脆弱、亲情的迷惘，友情的流逝，还浓浓地洋溢着一种对自我的省略和厌倦。
对！厌世，多听几次，这两个字是最精辟的概括。生活是什么？曾经动容的永远是不能回头的追忆，而那些种种，都只能在yesterday!
今日何苦？明日何用？在时间的流动里，你能捕捉的东西永远只能在昨天，不可能once more的昨天。
Paul McCartney作曲，John
Lennon作词。披头士对生命和音乐的理解在yesterday中得到最完美的诠释。这样的音乐，难怪为两部充满浓郁悲鸣往日情怀的奥斯卡影片《毕业生》、《美国黑帮》争相引用。
Yesterday,
all my troubles seemed so far away.
Now it seems as though they're here to stay.
Oh, I believe in yesterday.
Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be,
There's a shadow hanging over me.
Oh, yesterday came suddenly.
Why she had to go I don't know she wouldn't say.
I said something wrong, no
w I long for yesterday.
Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play.
Now I need a place to hide away.
Oh, I believe in yesterday.
I believe in yesterday.
Why she had to go I don't know
she would not say.
I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday.
Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play.
Now I need a place to hide away.
Oh, I believe in yesterday.
I believe in yesterday was so far away
oh, yesterday was far away
二、Seal - Kiss From A
Rose
黑夜给了我黑色的皮肤，我用它来体会孤独。SEAL用音乐的成就证实了上天是公平的，给了你卡西莫多般恐怖的外形，必然会在其他方面弥补。
kiss from a rose
为电影《永恒的蝙蝠侠》的感情配上了最美的音乐色彩。你爱过人吗？爱过不能爱却无法不爱的人吗？吸收着seal略带沙哑的声音，就像在毒花烈酒中寻欢作乐，将所有的情感细胞麻痹到死，这是种充绝望的付出，对情感失控最彻底的自我放纵。
There used to be a graying time all alone on the sea
You became the light on the dark side of me
Love remains a drug gets me high, that's how I feel
Did you know that when it snows my eyes become enlarged
And the light that you shine can be seen
Baby, I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the grey
The more I get of you, the stranger it feels, yeah
Now that your rose is in bloom, a light hits the gloom on the
Grey
There is so much a man can tell you, so much he can say
You remain my power, my pleasure, my pain, baby
To me you're like a growing addiction that I can't deny
Won't you tell me is that healthy, babe?
But did you know that when it snows, my eyes become enlarged
And the light that you shine can be seen
I've been kissed by a rose on the grey, I've been kissed by a
rose
I've been kissed by a rose on the grey (If I should fall...)
There is so much a man can tell you, so much he can say
You remain my power, my pleasure, my pain
To me you're like a growing addiction that I can't deny
Won't you tell me is that healthy, baby
But did you know, that when it snows, my eyes become enlarged
And the light that you shine can be seen
Now that your rose is in bloom, a light hits the gloom on the
grey
三、Enrique Iglesias
－hero
此hero非彼hero，曾经为玛丽亚凯利的hero感触过，但是却被安立奎的hero摧毁，从此为了只听它，而不再听其他的同名歌曲。当之无愧的，它被誉为“能让石头流泪的歌曲”。因为就我个人的感觉来说，能将“求欢”表达到这种程度的，就算是石头，也会裂条缝给你的！
安立奎声音中那种性感得腻死人的小男人的委屈和战战兢兢的颤音，用现代的一点的词来说，真会“装”。这简直就是一本教科书，要让你爱的人跟你ML，看看人安立奎做了什么，说了什么，唱了什么。
爱情是需要这样的调剂的，每个人都有自己需要的虚荣，为了你爱的人，豁出去做一次，说一次又会怎样呢？可是，多少自命hero的人不明白在自己爱人心中需要的hero到底是什么，怅惘的遗憾吧.
Let me be your hero
Would you dance,
if I asked you to dance?
Would you run,
and never look back?
Would you cry,
if you saw me crying?
And would you save my soul, tonight?
Would you tremble,
if I touched your lips?
Would you laugh?
Oh please tell me this.
Now would you die,
for the one you love?
Hold me in your arms, tonight.
I can be your hero, baby.
I can kiss away the pain.
I will stand by you forever.
You can take my breath away.
Would you swear,
that you'll always be mine?
Or would you lie?
would you run and hide?
Am I in too deep?
Have I lost my mind?
I don't care...
You're here, tonight.
I can be your hero, baby.
I can kiss away the pain.
I will stand by you forever.
You can take my breath away.
Oh, I just wanna to hold you.
I just wanna to hold you.
Oh yeah.
Am I in too deep?
Have I lost my mind?
Well I don't care...
You're here, tonight.
I can be your hero, baby.
I can kiss away the pain.
I will stand by you forever.
You can take my breath away.
I can be your hero.
I can kiss away the pain.
And I will stand by you, forever.
You can take my breath away.
You can take my breath away.
四、Alicia Keys - If I Ain't Got
You
Alicia Keys不只是有首fall'in，If I Ain't Got
You所具备的精神内涵高于单纯爱得死去活来的fall'in太多。在你需要反思的时候，这是你最好的良药。
我们都在越来越快节奏的都市里迷失着自我最原始的需求，一层一层的外壳包裹住了内心的萌动，该获取的不伸手，想爱的却错失。多一次的伤痛又多一重厚重的痂茧，如何能让本来的我重见天日，to
be
yourself？也许，都曾想过甚至发誓到了某个时刻，可以抛下一切去为所欲为，但是，那时那地，时间留待你的有几多，错过的人错过的事留待你的又几多？
Alicia Keys的具备劝诱性的呐喊疯狂地撕扯着内心的伪装，要什么？到底要什么？
有的人为了财富而生存，
有的人因为虚名而生存，
有的人为了权欲而生存，
有的人却只想要游戏人生。
我也曾经迷惘
但是那样的生命如此无味，
满是肤浅的表面价值。
歌者没有了她的你，everything means nothing。你自己呢？
Some people live for the fortune
Some people live just for the fame
Some people live for the power yeah
Some people live just to play the game
Some people think that the physical things
Define whats within
Ive been there before
But that lifes a bore
So full of the superficial
Some people want it all
But I dont want nothing at all
If it aint you baby
If I aint got you baby
Some people want diamond rings
Some just want everything
But everything means nothing
If I aint got you
Some people search for a fountain
Promises forever young
Some people need three dozen roses
And thats the only way to prove you love them
And in a world on a silver platter
And wondering what it means
No one to share, no one who truly cares for me
Some people want it all
But I dont want nothing at all
If it aint you baby
If I aint got you baby
Some people want diamond rings
Some just want everything
But everything means nothing
If I aint got you
Some people want it all
But I dont want nothing at all
If it aint you baby
If I aint got you baby
Some people want diamond rings
Some just want everything
But everything means nothing
If I aint got you
If I aint got you with me baby
Nothing in this whole wide world dont mean a thing
If I aint got you with me baby
五、Don McLean－Vincent'（Starry
Night）
梵高的Starry Night在灰蓝色的天幕中点缀着的星月，是要朦胧乡愁还是要遮掩爱情，没有人懂。就象每次听Don
McLean的vincent，唱者看不透梵高的画，听者听不明歌者的情。但是这种不明的浪漫情愫却充满着幻想的空间，有任何一种心情都可以听，自然，随意，因为，你想它带你到什么样的情境，什么样的故事，它都可以满足，十足一首万能的背景配乐。
Don
McLean轻柔的嗓音功不可没，就像当年那位看了他在演唱会上，十指拨弄吉他低吟浅唱之后，让一个女人神魂颠倒专门为他写了一首歌一样，你可以在梵高的闪耀星空中自由地为自己写出任何一个打动你自己的故事。
Starry, starry night
Paint your palette blue and gray
Look out on a summer's day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Shadows on the hills
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colors on the snowy linen land.
Now I understand
What you tried to say, to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now...
Starry, starry night
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in violet haze
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue
Colours changing hue
Morning fields of amber grain
Weathered faces lined in pain
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand.
Now I understand
What you tried to say, to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now...
For they could not love you
But still, your love was true
And when no hope was left inside
On that starry, starry night
You took your life as lovers often do
But I could've told you, Vincent
This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you...
Starry, Starry night
Portraits hung in empty halls
Frameless heads on nameless walls
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget
Like the strangers that you've met
The ragged men in ragged clothes
The silver thorn, a bloody rose
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow.
Now I think I know
What you tried to say, to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they're not listening still
Perhaps they never will...
六、MatthewLien－bressanone
以动物为主体的音乐却深深打动人类的心。MatthewLien专辑《狼》中的《布列瑟农》沉痛得凄凉，能勾起的永远是心底最深处的伤痛。
钢筋水泥的世界里有多少孤独的狼在无奈的行走，找不到最初的方向和梦想，找不到属于自己的伴侣和群体，管弦中透露出的转换气息声吹不散的是悲凉的情，任何一个城市都是那里的寂寞心灵的“飞鼠溪”。
开场风雪中的钟声，结束火车的长鸣，MatthewLien拼命压抑却抑制不住的疲倦与痛苦，声声都在呼唤着心灵的回归，然而，生活的重重负累有多少可以轻易的抛离，哪里才是可以奔驰得洒脱的伊甸园呢？
here i stand in bressanone
with the stars up in the sky
are they shining over brenner
and upon the other side
you would be a sweet surrender
i must go the other way
and my train will carry me onward
though my heart would surely stay
wo my heart would surely stay
now the clouds are flying by me
and the moon is on the rise
i have left stars behind me
they were disamondsin your skies
you would be a sweet surrender
i must go the other way
and my train will carry me onward
though my heart would surely stay
七、Jennifer Flack－one night
only
06年Dreamgirl最大的惊喜不是冲击了多项奥斯卡，而是将美国偶像出身的Jennifer Flack推向了一个最光耀的高潮。
每个人心中都有一个梦想，对生活的，对爱情的，对事业的。one night
only，得到了或者失去了又如何，持久的是什么，真正能永恒驻留心间的真实如何才能得来？生活在挣扎中，太多的渴求，累了，倦了，此时无声胜有声不如静下来去仔细聆听，让Jennifer
Flack沙哑又极具爆破张力的声音击击去敲碎最坚强的矜持，让自我彻底孤独得心醉心碎。
这首歌还有BEYONC的动感十足、妩媚性感的版本，但相比之下实在低俗太多，简直就是赤裸裸对性爱渴求的不高明的叫嚣。
You want all my love and my devotion
You want my loving sould right on the line
I have no doubt that I could love you forever
The only trouble is
You really don't have the time
You've got one night only
One night only
That's all you have to spare
One night only
Let's not pretend to care
One night only one night only
Come on, big baby, come on
One night only
We only have 'til dawn
In the morning this feeling will be gone
It has no chance going on
Something so right
Has got no chance to live
One night only
One night only
You'll be the only one
One night only
Then you'll have to run
One night only
One night only
There's nothing more to say
One night only
Words get in the way
One night only
八、Mariah Carey & Whitney Houston
－When You Believe
Mariah Carey和Whitney Houston都是个人超级喜欢的天后级唱将，本来准备选择的是WITHOUTYOU 和I'LL
ALWAYS LOVE
YOU为她们单独列记，但近来在健身房听太多次这两首经典改版的电子舞曲，实在腻味了，找不出那种原本的情绪，正好选择两大天后的至尊合唱经典When
You Believe。
前面的歌曲大多带点消极的伤感美，不过歌曲本身也是如泣如诉的黯然更能触动灵魂，但如同When You
Believe这般向上的歌曲能触动我某条神经的却较少。可能跟埃及王子上演，初听该首歌曲正值热恋期，那段也算轰轰烈烈的纯真爱情中，遇到了太多的阻难和争吵，却无法抹杀地永远在我的故事里占据重要的一席之地。you
will When You Believe曾经是我们互勉的口头禅。
曾经的不再，When You Believe却能时刻地回响来提醒那些已经平淡接受的过去，或许，JUST LET IT
BE也是种不错的选择，至少，曾经有这么段青葱岁月是骄纵又自豪的过去了的。
many nights we've prayed
with no proof anyone could hear
in our hearts a hopeful song
we barely understood
now we are not afraid
although we know there's much to fear
we were moving the mountains long
before we knew we could
there can be miracles when you believe
though hope is frail, it's hard to kill
who knows what miracles you can achieve
when you believe
somehow you will
now you will
you will when you believe
just believe
and this time of fear
when prayer so often proves in vain
hope is like the summer birds
to swiftly flown away
now i'm standing here
my heart so full i can't explain
seeking faith and speaking words
i never thought i'd say
they don't know this answer when you ask them
and it's easy to give in to your fear
but when you fly as high past your pain
you can see your way through the rain
more of us still receive your advice
says nothing's there we need
九、Chasing Dorotea—The Anchor
Song
前奏一上来能把人震慑住的歌曲不多，The Anchor
Song绝对是其中最经典的，口琴和吉他合鸣的旋律，在开场和结尾都那么温馨地、不疾不徐地跳动着，亲和得象儿时隔壁常给你糖吃的邻居老爷爷。
没有大起大落的冲突和起伏跌宕的变奏，但这对瑞典人一低一高、一粗一细的声线组合，就是那么柔柔地牵引着你的耳朵在记忆里流淌，欲诉还休的调调到底是把最熟悉的感觉唱成了陌生，还是把陌生了的感觉唱回了熟悉？就象要去苦苦寻找一个遗失了很久的东西，又似乎找到了。但究竟是什么，说不清，道不明。
空灵的音乐声里，你就沉淀下来去好好体会那种身上痒痒，它挠你一下就跑掉，快忘却的时候它又转头给你一下的感觉吧！
I've got a sparkle in your heart
Stronger than the brighter sun
And every time you come around
I know for sure that you’re the one
You’re the parachute that saves me
When I feel I need to jump
You’re the records that I play
And you sing a song I need to hear
There is an ocean in your eye
Deeper than the dark blue sea
And every time you fall asleep
I want the ways (to swollen it)
You’re the island that Im to
When I need to find a rock
You’re the cables that connect me
And I need to feel the touch to something
十、Black Box Recorder - Girl singing
in the wreckage
Black Box
Recorder，中文就是黑匣子，发生空难等新闻中常被提及的记录事故最后一刻的凭据，黑匣子里装满的永远是最惨痛的现实和无尽的哀思。乐队以此为名，你觉得是为什么？
Girl singing in the
wreckage是最能体现这支摇滚乐队主旨的歌曲，尽管这是他们最不摇滚的一首歌曲。但是去留意一下歌词，Sarah
Nixey青春单纯空灵得吓人的声音，传递的是极度的颓废和对现实的仇恨，而乐队一众男声带着幸灾乐祸味道调侃般不断重复着的那句Girl
singing in the wreckage，着实让人抓狂，想跳过却不由自主地被吸引。
这又是一首把人引往消极深渊的歌，在炼狱中痛并快乐着地为自己的现实悲鸣，为自己的过去甜蜜，心理抵抗力较弱的人还是不要轻易尝试去听，三魂六魄丢失多少乐队不会负责，我也无法负责。
Is my primary instinct to protect the child?
Girl singing in the wreckage
My dress is torn
My hair is wild
Girl singing in the wreckage
My first car
My early boyfriends
Girl singing in the wreckage
What we can's
New Year's party
Girl singing in the wreckage
Hour after hour after hour, hour after hour after hour
My eighteenth birthday
I'll die of boredom
Girl singing in the wreckage
My private world is smashed wide open
Girl singing in the wreckage
My first trip, my expectation
I had a dream that it would like to end like this
No density, no destination
You hit the ground and then it stops
Hour after hour after hour, hour after hour after hour
I miss my hometown, it's nothing special
Call my parents
let them know I'm right
(Girl singing in the wreckage)
My primary instinct is to protect the child
Send the postcard from the airport
(Girl singing in the wreckage)
