【爵士春秋】平民英雄 Tom Waits
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美国歌手 Tom Waits 在 1973 年推出了他的首张录音室专辑 Closing Time 标志着 Tom Waits 音乐生涯的开端也展现了他独特的音乐风格和独特的声音

i leave

I had to be on my wayWell, there's trucks all up passing me in the lights

I'm on my way home from your placeAnd now the sun's comeI'm riding with lady loveFreeway cars and trucksStars beginning to fadeAnd I leave the rainJust a wish and I'd stay alive

right in with lady love

这是 Tom Woods 首张专辑当中的第一首歌曲 Old 54 这首歌曲也是 Tom Woods 音乐当中极少数的描写在清晨看着太阳升起对未来充满无限的憧憬和希望的歌曲

Tom Woods 的音乐风格深受蓝调和爵士的影响而这些音乐类型本身就带有浓厚的孤独和忧郁的色彩他常常用低沉的嗓音缓慢的节奏和深沉的旋律营造出一种深夜酒吧或者街头的氛围 I hope that I won't fall in love with youWhen the love just makes me blueMusic plays and you display your heart for me to see

I hear you calling out to meAnd I hope that I won't fall in love with youThis crowd of people everywhereI wonder should I offer you a chairWell if you sit down with this old clownTake that frown and break itBefore the evening's gone awayI think that we'll fall in love with you

i don't fall in love with you

I can see that you are lonesome just like meAnd it'd be great if you'd like some companyWell I turn around and look at youYou look back and guide you with easeUp and split the chair next to your streetAnd I hope you don't fall in love with meNow it's closing time

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这是在 Closing Time 专辑当中我最喜欢的一首 I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You 歌曲表达了对陷入爱情的恐惧和矛盾心理下面这首 MASA 则是表达了对一个叫做 MASA 的女人的思念和爱慕优美的旋律当中带出淡淡的忧伤反映出了人物内心的孤独和无助以及对一个理解自己的人的渴望 Operator

it's been 40 years or more now

I feel so much older now

you're much older toohow's the husband and how's your kidsyou know that i got married toolucky there i found someoneto make you feel secureall so young and foolishand now we are maturethe days of roses were dream frozenmother that was you and all

I was always so impulsiveI guess that I still amBut all that really mattered thenWas that I was a manI guess that our being togetherWas never meant to be

I remember quiet evenings

1974 年 Tom Woods 退出了他的第二张录音室专辑 The Heart of Saturday NightTom Woods 在这一首 Santiago Serenade 当中讲述了一个关于等待和渴望的故事 Never saw the morning till I stayed up all nightNever saw the sunshine till you turned out the light

I never knew I needed youUntil I was caught up in a bindI never spoke I love youUntil I cursed you in vain

never saw the moon light until it shone off of your breastnever saw your heart in the summertry to steal it away

I never heard the melody

下面这首 Semi-Sweet 半间客房当中讲述了一个卡车司机的故事 Semi-Sweet 半间客房当中讲述了一个卡车司机的故事

Tells you that you're on his mind

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but when you hear his engineslooking through the window in the kitchen and you knowyou're always gonna be therewhen he callshe's a truck driving manstop him when he canhe's a truck driving manstop him when he canbut his diamonds on my windshieldand his tears from heaven

i'm pulling into town on the interstatei got a steel train in the rainand the wind bites my cheek through the wingand it's these late nightsand this freeway flyingalways makes me singthere's a duster trying to change my tunehe's pulling up fast on the rightrolling restlessly by a 24-hour moon

and a Wisconsin hiker with a cue ball headhe's wishing he's home in a Wisconsin bedbut there's 15 feet of snow in the eastcolder than a well digger's assand it's colder than a well digger's assoceanside it ends the ridewith San Clemente coming up

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but the sailors jockey for the fast laneso 101 don't miss itthere's rolling hills and concrete fieldsand the broken lines on your mindthe 8s go east and the 5s go northand the merging necks sit back and forthyou see your sign cross the linesignaling with a blinkand the radio's gone offit's your time to thinkand you hear the rumble from the four cigarettes

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Dumwits 激辛的吟唱和简单的古典再加上低音贝斯的伴奏使得歌曲充满了旅行的感觉刚才这一首 Diamonds on my windshield 描写了一个人在汽车挡风玻璃上看到钻石般的水滴象征着生活中美好的瞬间下面是这张专辑的标题作品也是整张专辑当中我最喜欢的一首 Looking for the Heart of Saturday Night

歌曲以一种悠闲的节奏和简单的吉他伴奏传达出一种对于生活的渴望和探索描述了人们在周六夜晚寻找意义的过程

all the other days

in the weekyou know that this will bethe Saturdayyou're reaching your peakstopping on the redgoing on the greencause tonight will be like nothingyou've ever seenand you're better than down the boulevardlooking for the heart of Saturday nighttell me is it the crack of the neon buzzin'telephones ringing it's your second cousin

你的手在你嘴里你的老手机

down in the coldand you're dreaming of them saturdays

嗯

《The Heart of Saturday Night》是一张充满了情感和诗意的经典专辑展现了汤姆威兹早期音乐的风格和魅力不仅在商业上获得了成功在乐评界也获得了高度评价奠定了他在音乐界的地位 1976 年汤姆威兹发表的第四张录音室专辑《Small Change》

标志着 Tom Woods 音乐风格的进一步发展融合了爵士、Blues、民谣、摇滚等多种音乐元素展现了他独特的音乐才华和深刻的歌词创作 Wasted and woundedIt ain't worth the moon didGod would I paid for nowSee you tomorrowIf Frank can't borrow

a couple of bucks from you to goWaltzing MatildaWaltzing MatildaYou go waltzing Matilda with meI'm an innocent victim of a blinded alley

I'm tired of all these soldiers hereNo one speaks EnglishAnd everything's brokenAnd my stasis are soaking wetI took a

我

I begged you to stab meYou tore my shirt openAnd I'm down on my kneesOld Bushmills are staggeredYou buried the daggerYour silver door laidTo go old St. Matilda

Oh, old St. MatildaYou, oh, old St. Matilda with meNow I lost my St. ChristopherAll that I've kissed herAnd the one-armed bandit knowsAnd the maverick ChinamanAnd the cold-blooded scythe

and the girls down by the striptease showsgo old sing matildaold sing matildayougo old sing matilda with meno i don't want your sympathy

old sing matildaold sing matilda

Go on, take Matilda with meAnd you can ask any sailorAnd the keys from the jailerAnd the old man in wheelchairs knowThat Matilda's the defendantShe killed about a hundred men

and she follows wherever you may goWaltzing MatildaWaltzing MatildaYou go waltzing Matilda with meAnd it's a battered old suitcaseTo a hotel someplace

and goodnight

这一首 Tom Travers Blues 被看作是 Tom Woods 最为经典的一首歌曲有着令人心碎的美丽这首歌曲的创作灵感源自于 Tom Woods 在洛杉矶的 Skid Row 贫民窟的一次经历他喝了一瓶威士忌之后开始吐然后创作了这首歌曲歌曲的副标题是 Four Sheets

《To the Wind in Copenhagen》则是描写了他有一次在哥巴哈根追了不省人事的经历歌曲的主人公 Tom Travert 在异国他乡陷入困境 身无分文歌词中充满了对孤独 绝望和寻求慰藉的描绘

下面这一首《I Wish I Was In New Orleans》描写了一个人在远方对新奥尔良这座城市的思念充满了对自由和冒险的渴望以及对美好时光的怀念新奥尔良以其丰富的音乐文化爵士乐和夜生活而闻名汤姆威茨通过这首歌曲表达了对这座城市深深的向往和怀念 I wish I was in New Orleans

in new Orleanscan sit in my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my dreamsin my

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I like so well

啊

I was in New OrleansCan't see in my dreams

啊

醉酒对于汤姆威斯来说是一种生活常态他始终是在一种宿醉的状态下表达对生活的观察和人性的思考同时也表现出他独特的幽默这一首《The Piano Has Been Drinking》通过描述钢琴醉酒的状态用一种幽默而又深刻的方式探讨了音乐与情感的关系《The Piano Has Been Drinking》

My neck ties are smoothAnd the combo went back to New York

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and the balcony is all in the makeand the piano has been drinkingand the piano has been drinkingand the menus are all freezingand the light man's blind in one eyeand he can't see out of the other

Piano Tunes got a hearing acheAnd showed up with his motherAnd a piano has been drinkingAnd a piano has been drinkingAs the pouncer is a sumo wrestlerCream puff, Casper milk toast

and the owner is a mental midgetwith a IQ of a fence postcause the piano has been drinkingthe piano has been drinkingand you can't find a waitresswith a Geiger counter

and she hates you and your friends and you just can't get served without and the box office is drooling and the bar stools are on fire and the newspapers were fooling and the ashtrays have retired

the piano has been drinkingthe piano has been drinkingthe piano has been drinkingnot me not me not menot me not me

1977 年汤姆尔一次发表了他的第五张录音室专辑 Falling Affairs 这张专辑表现了他在音乐上的大胆尝试和创新我们来听这一首 MurielMurielas you left townthe club's closed downthere's one more burned out lamp poston the main streetand down we were used to stroll

I still hear all the same old heartsFollow me wherever I goMuriel, I'll see youOn a Saturday nightIn a petty arcadeWill you have the time backThe diamond twinkleIs in your eyes

MurielHow many times

我可以买个曼哈顿吗

Oh but that was long agoNow tell me do you really thinkI'd fall for that old line

I was not born just yesterdayBesides I never talked to strangers anywayI ain't a bad guy, you get to know meI just thought that it ain't no harmHey, just try minding your own business, bud

to take the place I heard

you're bitter cause it left youthat's why you're drinking in this barwell only suckers fall in lovewith perfect strangersit always takes oneto know one strangermaybe we're just wiser nowyeah and been around

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可能听到的是在这一张 Foreign Affair 专辑当中我最喜欢的一首歌曲由 Tom Woods 和女歌手 Bette Midler 合作的 I Never Talk To Strangers 歌词探讨了人和人之间的关系怀旧 分世基础和社会的复杂性 Jag was in poker faceWith bullets packed with bitches

你会看到你的女朋友

and we had the hair net and those white shoes and the name tag in her hatshe drove like Andy Granatelli knew how to fix a flatand Jack was almost at the bottom of his MD 2020Neil was yelling out the window trying to buy some pantiesfrom a Lincoln full of Mexicansand the left rear tire blowand the sons of bitches putting therewho almost ran us off the road

and while the nurse had spilled the man a sherbet song up and down her dressthen she lit the map on fireand neil just had to guessshe should be trying to find a bootleg routeor a filling station openthe nurse was dumping out a personlooking for an envelopeJack was out of cigarettes

we're not negligee in a black brazilmargaret who's running hot

we were almost out of gasand just then Florence nightingaleshe dropped the drawersand stuck her fat ass halfway outto a Wilson Pikachushot a kettle load of thisand gave her finger to the moonscamper with that desiresufferingwith theDonna Villanuevagot the mug of my kidsand I went to work

我

i somehowyou could just tellbut being in california soonopen upyour golden gates

CaliforniaHere I comeCaliforniaHere I comeCaliforniaHere I come

汤姆威斯的歌词创作深受垮掉一代的文学影响刚才这一首 Jack and NeilCalifornia Here I Come 当中描述了 Jack 和 Neil 的公路旅行展现了他们一路上的荒诞经历和对自由的追求今天节目最后我们听到这一首 A Side for Sure Eyes

描述的是主人公在酒吧和老朋友重逢的场景传达了对过去的怀念和对生活变化的感慨歌词中充满了对旧时光的回忆和对老朋友的问候 It's a long time no seeWorking hard, hardly workingHey man, you know meI wanna run to

我

that we toast to the old daysand to Margie O'Tooleand old Trousdale and Mandelhultwhitey Ford and tooall gang ain't aroundeveryone has left townexcept for Thumb and Chardinasaid they just might be downoh half drunk all the time

and I'm all drunk the rest of meMonk's still the championoh but I am the bestand hey barkeeperwhat's keeping youkeep pouring drinksfor all these palookashey you know what I thinkthat we're toastto the old daysand to my last year

He was killed in a crashOh that must have been two or three years ago nowYeah he spun out and he rolledIn a telephone pole

I died with the radio onMorris is married with a kidFinally split up with SidHe's up north for a nickel's worthFor armed robberyAnd I'll play you some pinballNo, you ain't got a chanceThen go on over

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