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『David Usher 』 透过明净落地窗的那一缕阳光

如果你听过刘若英的分开旅行大概就知道David Usher了吧~```!没错,他就是原唱.

David Usher

透过明净落地窗的那一缕阳光

第一次听到David Usher的歌是在1997。偶尔一天在客厅整理书籍的时候，电视里传来他做为Alternative乐队Moist主唱时的一首歌 – Breathe，一下子就击中了我的灵魂最深处，从此为他的音乐和歌词所痴迷。

Breathe的曲调非常缓慢，平静，却无处不透出绝望彻骨的悲伤，至今是我最喜欢的歌曲之一。

Breathe歌词:

Save
Save me from this
Wandered around the town
All the thousand things
I might miss

And you
Think well suffer much
Think well close our eyes
Just to see the light
Pass us by

With tomorrow coming
Hope that I dont
Let you down again
Said I’m so glad to be here
Does it mean a thing
If only I could breathe
What you breathe
If only I could see what you see

Sit
Well take our time
Watching the flowers grow
All friends weve known say
Goodbye

And you
Did you suffer much
Did you close your eyes
Just to see the night
Rush on by
Gathered all around you

Hope that were dont
Let you down again
I said I’m so glad to be here
Does it mean a thing
If only I could breathe
What you breathe
If only I could see what you see

Said I’m so glad to be here
Does it mean a thing

If only I could breathe
What you breathe
If only I could see what you see
If only I could just believe a thing

Moist的风格是异类摇滚 (Alternative Rock), 由David Usher (lead singer), Mark Makoway (guitars), Jeff Pearce (bass), Kevin Young (keyboards) and Paul Wilcox (drums) 在温哥华组建，1994年和EMI Music Canada签约。他们的第一张专辑是Sliver，从单曲Push开始走红加拿大。

所有Moist的专辑里面我最喜欢的歌曲是Push, Believe me, Hate，Underground, Sliver, Gasoline, Resurrection和Tangerine。

Tangerine 歌词

the flowers that i gave you dying slowly
on the wall
the broken fragments of opinion
as the dirty start to fall
im not as careful as i should have been
i might not disagree
but for the ignorance of everyone
opinion gone to waste

have you been this far

tangerine the bullet made you
justifies the one who saves you
laid him here and love to see him waste away
tangerinin like a rocket
cracked the cock into the socket
only if youd love to see him waste away

the purposeful delusions
of this weakness will dissolve
the broken promise revidescent
as the anger start to crawl
im just as frightened as ive always been
i might not disagree
but for the ignorance of everyone
opinion starts to fall apart

have you been this far
and have you been this far

tangerine the bullet made you
justifies the one who saves you
laid him here and love to see her waste away
tangerinin like a rocket
cracked the cock into the socket
only if youd love to see him waste away

cause your a child and thats alright
to let my deep blue sickness cover you with lies
and if im low it gets me high
and we will shrivel up and waste away
beneath the evening tide

have you been this far

tingling the bullet made you
justifies the one who saves you
laid him here and love to see him waste away
tangerinin like a rocket
cracked the cock into the socket
only if youd love to see him waste away

Tangerine的风格是很明显的另类摇滚，其中的一段

“cause your a child and thats alright
to let my deep blue sickness cover you with lies
and if im low it gets me high
and we will shrivel up and waste away
beneath the evening tide”

是很多Moist歌迷最喜欢的一段，把Moist那种神秘，颓废，悲伤的分格演绎的淋漓尽致。套用David Usher歌迷们最喜欢用的形容词就是 “Unholy, Dirty and Beautiful”（Moist的另一首歌曲）。

David Usher1966年4月24日在英国出生，他是一个歌手，词作者，和知名的人道主义者。受家庭的影响，母亲是艺术家及泰国佛教徒，父亲是加拿大Queen’s University的经济学教授及犹太人，他所写歌词的主题很多是宗教，信仰，政治和人道主义，希望每个人都能以多角度的方位来看待他人和事物。他本人也是在温哥华的Simon Fraser University的政治系 (Political Science) 毕业的。

2001年的夏天，他发行了第二张个人专辑 - Morning Orbit。我在Future Shop看到这张专辑的时候，想都没有想，立刻买下。回家一首一首的听过，一共11首歌，没有一首让人失望。

黄昏的时候，带着大大的耳机，坐在明净的落体窗前的地上，金黄色的阳光穿过树叶，落在你的身上，当David Usher那独特的柔软，性感而又响亮的声音在你耳边响起，仿若不在尘世间的恍惚感。

Morning Orbit的主打歌是Black Black Heart，就是被刘若英翻唱的分开旅行那首，可能大家比较熟悉。个人更喜欢Remix的版本，更加摇滚，黑暗一些。其它歌曲，只能说每首我都非常喜欢，最喜欢的是

Butterfly

“And if you think you're dying
Baby well you know i felt the same
'cause we were only hoping
Why's it always feel like, feel like
It feels like rain”

总体来讲，这张专辑非常都市，重点讲述现代的人们陷入早九晚五，为车，为房子，为性等等而活的生活，想离开，而无力做到的感受。这张专辑使他赢得了加拿大2002的 Juno奖状 – 最佳流行歌曲专辑。

在2003年的9月份，David Usher的第三张专辑，Hallucinations，发行了。这张专辑相对Morning Orbit来说，冷门许多，但是是我个人最喜欢的一张。这张延续了上张专辑的都市人的主题，如Surfacing和Time of Our Lives，宗教，社会和政治主题也很明显。David Usher不解释歌词的意思，而是让人们自己去理解和体会。

很喜欢Devil By My Side

Believe in hope,
Believe in faith,
Believe in things I can't fight,
Believe in truth,
Believe in slavery,
But it's only the television kind,
Believe that light will find a way,
Believe in jets as they blow into the sky
Believe in you, believe in me,
And all of these things,

Devil by my side,
And the freaks are out we're in force tonight,
And you opened me wide,
'Cause it's cold in there and it's warm outside

Believe that hate will never die,
Believe in sex and love in a dangerous time,
Believe in grace and your intelligence,
Believe in exploring the corners of the mind,
Believe your truth is not my truth,
That God can exist with many faces at one time,
Believe that we will find a way through all of these things,

Devil by my side,
And the freaks are out we're in force tonight,
And you opened me wide,
'Cause it's cold in there and it's warm outside,
Hard when you realize that you'll never have what you're trying to find.

表面上是讲宗教，让不同信仰的人们尊重和理解对方，而稍微仔细看一下，就会发现，这首歌是讲美国的“Iraq战争”，当然是我个人的理解，但是

But it's only the television kind,
Believe that light will find a way,
Believe in jets as they blow into the sky

很明显的是讲到现场直播的战争

Believe in sex and love in a dangerous time/ And the freaks are out we're in force tonight

也是讲战争时期/夜袭

Hard when you realize that you'll never have what you're trying to find

我当时听这句都爆笑出来，不是指美国发起战争在不存在的“Weapon of Mass Destruction”理论上么？而且还you'll never have what you're trying to find。。。。。。David还真是恶劣。:P

加上歌名字是Devil by my Side，美国是加拿大的唯一邻国。。。。。。^^||

这张专辑里还推荐In this Light和Tomorrow Comes。

2005的4月，David Usher的第四张专辑，If God had Curves。从专辑的名字就可以看出，宗教是很大的一个主题。这张专辑的主打歌曲, Love will save the day，歌曲里录制了女性主义者Gloria Steinem在1971的演讲 "Address to the Women of America." 个人来说，这张专辑和第一张个人专辑，Little Songs，都不是我最喜欢的风格，不过Love will save the day, Wolves和Everything Alright by Me Now都是很推荐的歌曲。

下面是Love will save the day的Video 连接，

http://www.davidusher.ca/data/video.swf

歌词：

The pornography made me do it
So those drugs that got us high
Was the thoughts of revolution
They've been poisoning my mind
So i'm walking down to the water
You keep coming up for air
All those people, they don't give a damn
They just stood around and stare
And i say,

Love will save the day [x4]

Come on sell me more of your religion
'cause it's sure to make a change
Last night god was on the tv screen
Taking dollars for their pain
Come on talk about that evolution
It's been poisoning my mind
I've been looking for a saviour
I've been waiting for a sign
And i said,

Love will save the day [x4]

I am walking
I am breathing
I can't feel you
I can't set you free
[x2]

Love will save the day
If love will save the day [x2]
If love will save today

Maybe tomorrow [x10]

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