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前天聽了王菲在98-99 concert 中演譯的一首「Bohemian Rhapsody」,震撼到不得了。此曲是glam rock band 「Queen」的1975年經典舊作,因為曲詞創作人Freddie Mercury在91年11月24日因愛滋病而過世,所以世界再沒有另一種可以取代這首曲那敲進心底的感覺了,也因為Mercury本身生前的處境而替此曲蓋上濃厚的哀愁。

曲子始於一個問句:「Is this just real life? Is this just fantasy?」( 這是真實生活,或是幻想? ),經過波瀾萬丈的五分鐘後,結束於Mercury輕描淡寫的一句「Nothing really matters...to me」 ( 對我而言,其實什麼也沒發生)...

此曲的每分每秒都瀰漫著無奈和對黑暗、死亡的恐懼的氣氛,Mercury熱愛歌劇,在其作品中不多不少也有點歌劇影子,在「Bohemian Rhapsody」裡將當時的錄混音技術應用到極致,人聲層層疊錄之下,營造出搖滾樂界前所未聞的氣勢。電影感強烈和富張力是我對此曲編曲效果的即時感想。中段過場的opera式歌聲起伏,非常波瀾壯闊,也代表了主角內心非常不穩定的爭扎,把偉大的生命描寫成不過是poor boy的一生,nobody loves poor boy,渺少到不得了,強調生命只是煙花,而這煙花也是痛苦的化身,似乎人活在其中,非常不知何去何從。聽著歌者 ( 我聽的是王菲版 ) 以冷酷的語氣唱著「Easy come easy go, will you let me go」,真淒絕。而尾段忽然減速的幾拍重拍及那些歌聲,果真有「anyway the wind blows」的感覺,有歸塵之感。

以下是從lyrics中使我有最深體會的幾段:

Is this the real life
Is this just fantasy
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality

( life is real...so real...)

Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see
I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy
Because I'm easy come, easy go
A little high, little low
Anyway the wind blows, doesn't really matter to me, to me

( 多麼淒美絕倫的人生,原來只是數十年日子,加上 little high, little low,可惜太真實的生命,我們也會被嚇嗐。)

Mama, just killed a man
Put a gun against his head
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead

( 生與死也只是被一二個動作操控,你看,它多麼脆弱。)

Mama, life had just begun
But now I've gone and thrown it all away

( 媽媽,世上唯一一個永遠給我溫暖的人,生命才剛開始,我卻已承受不起。)

Mama ooo
Didn't mean to make you cry
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
Carry on, carry on, as if nothing really matters

( 誰想流淚? 假如,我明天再沒法站在這裡,請你,收拾心情,當作視而不見,繼續活下去好了。)

Too late, my time has come
Sends shivers down my spine
Body's aching all the time
Goodbye everybody
I've got to go
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth

( 時間太快,早也變遲,軀殼不由我控制,我只好離開一切,轉過頭去面對真實。)

Mama ooo
I don't want to die
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all

( 媽媽,我害怕,我恐懼死亡,甚至恐懼生存,我也不想這樣,我已經把生命裡所有的美好都推翻了,對我而言,呼吸也是一種折磨,體無完膚,也無可奈何。)

But I'm just a poor boy and nobody loves me
He's just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from this monstrosity

( 愛有多幸福,可惜我沒有,我的一生只有缺乏,這生命太怪,我只有逐步去消磨。)

Easy come easy go, will you let me go

( 就讓我這般邪異地,步向解脫吧。)

So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye
So you think you can love me and leave me to die
Oh Baby
Can't do this to me baby

( 你又可以怎樣? 一切都是殘忍至極的。)

Nothing really matters
Anyone can see
Nothing really matters
nothing really matters to me
Anyway the wind blows......

( 這種生命,就當甚麼也沒發生吧,任何人都看得出,真的沒有甚麼。)

唉。

這就叫悲劇。

生命渺少得令追求偉大的人類難以接受。

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