歌曲 | Losing Haringeygey |
歌手 | The Clientele |
专辑 | Strange Geometry |
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[00:01.000] | 作词:Alasdair MacLean |
[00:02.000] | 作曲:The Clientele,Alasdair MacLean |
[00:05.342] | "In those days, there was a kind of fever that pushed me out of the front door, into the pale, |
[00:09.522] | exhaust-fumed park by Broadwater Farm or the grubby road that eventually leads to Enfield: |
[00:15.216] | turkish supermarket after chicken restaurant after spare car part shop. |
[00:19.187] | Everything in my life felt like it was coming to a mysterious close: |
[00:22.687] | I could hardly walk to the end of a street without feeling there was no way to go except back. |
[00:27.154] | The dates I’d had that summer had come to nothing, |
[00:29.766] | my job was a dead end and the rent cheque was killing me a little more each month. |
[00:33.711] | It seemed unlikely that anything could hold much longer. |
[00:36.428] | The only question left to ask was what would happen after everything familiar collapsed, |
[00:41.417] | but for now the summer stretched between me and that moment. |
[00:43.977] | |
[00:44.787] | It was ferociously hot, |
[00:46.276] | and the air quality became so bad that by the evening |
[00:48.914] | the noise of nearby trains stuttered in in fits and starts, |
[00:53.277] | distorted through the shifting air. |
[00:55.523] | As I lay in the cool of my room, |
[00:58.292] | I could hear my neighbours discussing the world cup and opening beers in their gardens. |
[01:00.904] | On the other side, someone was singing an Arabic prayer through the thin wall. |
[01:04.901] | I had no money for the pub so I decided to go for a walk. |
[01:07.905] | |
[01:09.028] | I found myself wandering aimlessly to the west, |
[01:11.928] | past the terrace of chip and kebab shops and laundrettes near the tube station. |
[01:16.160] | I crossed the street, and headed into virgin territory - I had never been this way before. |
[01:20.836] | Gravel-dashed houses alternated with square 60s offices, |
[01:24.493] | and the wide pavements undulated with cracks and litter. |
[01:27.680] | I walked and walked, because there was nothing else for me to do, |
[01:30.684] | and by degrees the light began to fade. |
[01:32.878] | |
[01:33.897] | The mouth of an avenue led me to the verge of a long, |
[01:36.483] | greasy A-road that rose up in the far distance, |
[01:39.357] | with symmetrical terraces falling steeply down then up again from a distant railway station. |
[01:45.313] | There were four benches to my right, |
[01:47.611] | interspersed with those strange bushes that grow in the area, |
[01:50.093] | whose blossoms are so pale yellow they seem translucent, almost spectral; and suddenly tired, |
[01:55.056] | I sat down. |
[01:56.885] | I held my head in my hands, feeling like ****, |
[01:59.758] | but a sudden breeze escaped from the terraces and for a moment |
[02:02.606] | I lost my thoughts in its unexpected coolness. |
[02:05.897] | I looked up and I realised I was sitting in a photograph. |
[02:08.901] | |
[02:10.260] | I remembered clearly: |
[02:11.879] | this photograph was taken by my mother in 1982, outside our front garden in Hampshire. |
[02:16.529] | It was slightly underexposed. I was still sitting on the bench, |
[02:19.820] | but the colours and the planes of the road and horizon had become the photo. |
[02:24.496] | If I looked hard, |
[02:26.194] | I could see the lines of the window ledge in the original photograph were now composed |
[02:28.545] | by a tree branch and the silhouetted edge of a grass verge. |
[02:32.751] | The sheen of the flash on the window was replicated |
[02:35.233] | by bonfire smoke drifting infinitesimally slowly from behind a fence. |
[02:40.117] | My sister’s face had been dimly visible behind the window, |
[02:43.409] | and -yes- there were pale stars far off to the west that traced out the lines of a toddler’s eyes and mouth. |
[02:49.731] | |
[02:50.070] | When I look back at this there’s nothing to grasp, no starting point. |
[02:52.395] | I was inside an underexposed photo from 1982 but I was also sitting on a bench in Haringey. |
[02:59.344] | |
[03:00.232] | Strongest of all was the feeling of 1982-ness: dizzy, illogical, |
[03:04.829] | as if none of the intervening disasters and wrong turns had happened yet. |
[03:08.617] | I felt guilty, and inconsolably sad. I felt the instinctive tug back - to school, |
[03:14.103] | the memory of shopping malls, cooking, driving in my mother’s car. |
[03:18.178] | All gone, gone forever. |
[03:19.249] | |
[03:20.424] | I just sat there for a while. I was so tired that I didn’t bother trying to work out what was going on. |
[03:25.492] | I was happy just to sit in the photo while it lasted, |
[03:28.392] | which wasn’t for long anyway: the light faded, the wind caught the smoke, |
[03:31.866] | the stars dimmed under the glare of the streetlamps. |
[03:34.635] | I got up and walked away from the squat little benches and an oncoming gang of kids. |
[03:38.475] | |
[03:39.363] | A bus was rumbling to my rescue down the hill, with a great big ‘via Alexandra Palace’ on its front, |
[03:45.502] | and I realised I did want a drink after all." |
[00:01.000] | zuo ci: Alasdair MacLean |
[00:02.000] | zuo qu: The Clientele, Alasdair MacLean |
[00:05.342] | " In those days, there was a kind of fever that pushed me out of the front door, into the pale, |
[00:09.522] | exhaustfumed park by Broadwater Farm or the grubby road that eventually leads to Enfield: |
[00:15.216] | turkish supermarket after chicken restaurant after spare car part shop. |
[00:19.187] | Everything in my life felt like it was coming to a mysterious close: |
[00:22.687] | I could hardly walk to the end of a street without feeling there was no way to go except back. |
[00:27.154] | The dates I' d had that summer had come to nothing, |
[00:29.766] | my job was a dead end and the rent cheque was killing me a little more each month. |
[00:33.711] | It seemed unlikely that anything could hold much longer. |
[00:36.428] | The only question left to ask was what would happen after everything familiar collapsed, |
[00:41.417] | but for now the summer stretched between me and that moment. |
[00:43.977] | |
[00:44.787] | It was ferociously hot, |
[00:46.276] | and the air quality became so bad that by the evening |
[00:48.914] | the noise of nearby trains stuttered in in fits and starts, |
[00:53.277] | distorted through the shifting air. |
[00:55.523] | As I lay in the cool of my room, |
[00:58.292] | I could hear my neighbours discussing the world cup and opening beers in their gardens. |
[01:00.904] | On the other side, someone was singing an Arabic prayer through the thin wall. |
[01:04.901] | I had no money for the pub so I decided to go for a walk. |
[01:07.905] | |
[01:09.028] | I found myself wandering aimlessly to the west, |
[01:11.928] | past the terrace of chip and kebab shops and laundrettes near the tube station. |
[01:16.160] | I crossed the street, and headed into virgin territory I had never been this way before. |
[01:20.836] | Graveldashed houses alternated with square 60s offices, |
[01:24.493] | and the wide pavements undulated with cracks and litter. |
[01:27.680] | I walked and walked, because there was nothing else for me to do, |
[01:30.684] | and by degrees the light began to fade. |
[01:32.878] | |
[01:33.897] | The mouth of an avenue led me to the verge of a long, |
[01:36.483] | greasy Aroad that rose up in the far distance, |
[01:39.357] | with symmetrical terraces falling steeply down then up again from a distant railway station. |
[01:45.313] | There were four benches to my right, |
[01:47.611] | interspersed with those strange bushes that grow in the area, |
[01:50.093] | whose blossoms are so pale yellow they seem translucent, almost spectral and suddenly tired, |
[01:55.056] | I sat down. |
[01:56.885] | I held my head in my hands, feeling like , |
[01:59.758] | but a sudden breeze escaped from the terraces and for a moment |
[02:02.606] | I lost my thoughts in its unexpected coolness. |
[02:05.897] | I looked up and I realised I was sitting in a photograph. |
[02:08.901] | |
[02:10.260] | I remembered clearly: |
[02:11.879] | this photograph was taken by my mother in 1982, outside our front garden in Hampshire. |
[02:16.529] | It was slightly underexposed. I was still sitting on the bench, |
[02:19.820] | but the colours and the planes of the road and horizon had become the photo. |
[02:24.496] | If I looked hard, |
[02:26.194] | I could see the lines of the window ledge in the original photograph were now composed |
[02:28.545] | by a tree branch and the silhouetted edge of a grass verge. |
[02:32.751] | The sheen of the flash on the window was replicated |
[02:35.233] | by bonfire smoke drifting infinitesimally slowly from behind a fence. |
[02:40.117] | My sister' s face had been dimly visible behind the window, |
[02:43.409] | and yes there were pale stars far off to the west that traced out the lines of a toddler' s eyes and mouth. |
[02:49.731] | |
[02:50.070] | When I look back at this there' s nothing to grasp, no starting point. |
[02:52.395] | I was inside an underexposed photo from 1982 but I was also sitting on a bench in Haringey. |
[02:59.344] | |
[03:00.232] | Strongest of all was the feeling of 1982ness: dizzy, illogical, |
[03:04.829] | as if none of the intervening disasters and wrong turns had happened yet. |
[03:08.617] | I felt guilty, and inconsolably sad. I felt the instinctive tug back to school, |
[03:14.103] | the memory of shopping malls, cooking, driving in my mother' s car. |
[03:18.178] | All gone, gone forever. |
[03:19.249] | |
[03:20.424] | I just sat there for a while. I was so tired that I didn' t bother trying to work out what was going on. |
[03:25.492] | I was happy just to sit in the photo while it lasted, |
[03:28.392] | which wasn' t for long anyway: the light faded, the wind caught the smoke, |
[03:31.866] | the stars dimmed under the glare of the streetlamps. |
[03:34.635] | I got up and walked away from the squat little benches and an oncoming gang of kids. |
[03:38.475] | |
[03:39.363] | A bus was rumbling to my rescue down the hill, with a great big ' via Alexandra Palace' on its front, |
[03:45.502] | and I realised I did want a drink after all." |
[00:01.000] | zuò cí: Alasdair MacLean |
[00:02.000] | zuò qǔ: The Clientele, Alasdair MacLean |
[00:05.342] | " In those days, there was a kind of fever that pushed me out of the front door, into the pale, |
[00:09.522] | exhaustfumed park by Broadwater Farm or the grubby road that eventually leads to Enfield: |
[00:15.216] | turkish supermarket after chicken restaurant after spare car part shop. |
[00:19.187] | Everything in my life felt like it was coming to a mysterious close: |
[00:22.687] | I could hardly walk to the end of a street without feeling there was no way to go except back. |
[00:27.154] | The dates I' d had that summer had come to nothing, |
[00:29.766] | my job was a dead end and the rent cheque was killing me a little more each month. |
[00:33.711] | It seemed unlikely that anything could hold much longer. |
[00:36.428] | The only question left to ask was what would happen after everything familiar collapsed, |
[00:41.417] | but for now the summer stretched between me and that moment. |
[00:43.977] | |
[00:44.787] | It was ferociously hot, |
[00:46.276] | and the air quality became so bad that by the evening |
[00:48.914] | the noise of nearby trains stuttered in in fits and starts, |
[00:53.277] | distorted through the shifting air. |
[00:55.523] | As I lay in the cool of my room, |
[00:58.292] | I could hear my neighbours discussing the world cup and opening beers in their gardens. |
[01:00.904] | On the other side, someone was singing an Arabic prayer through the thin wall. |
[01:04.901] | I had no money for the pub so I decided to go for a walk. |
[01:07.905] | |
[01:09.028] | I found myself wandering aimlessly to the west, |
[01:11.928] | past the terrace of chip and kebab shops and laundrettes near the tube station. |
[01:16.160] | I crossed the street, and headed into virgin territory I had never been this way before. |
[01:20.836] | Graveldashed houses alternated with square 60s offices, |
[01:24.493] | and the wide pavements undulated with cracks and litter. |
[01:27.680] | I walked and walked, because there was nothing else for me to do, |
[01:30.684] | and by degrees the light began to fade. |
[01:32.878] | |
[01:33.897] | The mouth of an avenue led me to the verge of a long, |
[01:36.483] | greasy Aroad that rose up in the far distance, |
[01:39.357] | with symmetrical terraces falling steeply down then up again from a distant railway station. |
[01:45.313] | There were four benches to my right, |
[01:47.611] | interspersed with those strange bushes that grow in the area, |
[01:50.093] | whose blossoms are so pale yellow they seem translucent, almost spectral and suddenly tired, |
[01:55.056] | I sat down. |
[01:56.885] | I held my head in my hands, feeling like , |
[01:59.758] | but a sudden breeze escaped from the terraces and for a moment |
[02:02.606] | I lost my thoughts in its unexpected coolness. |
[02:05.897] | I looked up and I realised I was sitting in a photograph. |
[02:08.901] | |
[02:10.260] | I remembered clearly: |
[02:11.879] | this photograph was taken by my mother in 1982, outside our front garden in Hampshire. |
[02:16.529] | It was slightly underexposed. I was still sitting on the bench, |
[02:19.820] | but the colours and the planes of the road and horizon had become the photo. |
[02:24.496] | If I looked hard, |
[02:26.194] | I could see the lines of the window ledge in the original photograph were now composed |
[02:28.545] | by a tree branch and the silhouetted edge of a grass verge. |
[02:32.751] | The sheen of the flash on the window was replicated |
[02:35.233] | by bonfire smoke drifting infinitesimally slowly from behind a fence. |
[02:40.117] | My sister' s face had been dimly visible behind the window, |
[02:43.409] | and yes there were pale stars far off to the west that traced out the lines of a toddler' s eyes and mouth. |
[02:49.731] | |
[02:50.070] | When I look back at this there' s nothing to grasp, no starting point. |
[02:52.395] | I was inside an underexposed photo from 1982 but I was also sitting on a bench in Haringey. |
[02:59.344] | |
[03:00.232] | Strongest of all was the feeling of 1982ness: dizzy, illogical, |
[03:04.829] | as if none of the intervening disasters and wrong turns had happened yet. |
[03:08.617] | I felt guilty, and inconsolably sad. I felt the instinctive tug back to school, |
[03:14.103] | the memory of shopping malls, cooking, driving in my mother' s car. |
[03:18.178] | All gone, gone forever. |
[03:19.249] | |
[03:20.424] | I just sat there for a while. I was so tired that I didn' t bother trying to work out what was going on. |
[03:25.492] | I was happy just to sit in the photo while it lasted, |
[03:28.392] | which wasn' t for long anyway: the light faded, the wind caught the smoke, |
[03:31.866] | the stars dimmed under the glare of the streetlamps. |
[03:34.635] | I got up and walked away from the squat little benches and an oncoming gang of kids. |
[03:38.475] | |
[03:39.363] | A bus was rumbling to my rescue down the hill, with a great big ' via Alexandra Palace' on its front, |
[03:45.502] | and I realised I did want a drink after all." |