Friday, September 26, 2008

看完辩论,想起一首歌

Flobots ~ Handlebars
听听歌中怎么从最初的悠闲小调 I can ride my bike with no handlebars
一步一步演绎到最后的声嘶力竭 I can end the planet in a holocaust
是至今为止,俺听到的写得最智慧最深刻的政治歌曲,寓意之深远,所以俺把全部歌词都贴出来了,值得米国人民反思,因为这首歌乍一看,矛头指向的是美国近半世纪来对整个世界造成的影响。

然后是一个更普遍的问题,当我们拥有越来越多越来越强大的力量时,我们是怎么使用的?MTV中反复出现一只鸽子和一个八边形的C(具体怎么来的,我不知道,但是不妨碍你对歌的理解),便是歌者所要传递的 message.

然后是人性,一开始的两个好朋友在乡间快乐的撒把骑着自行车,然后到了城市,在路口他们拥抱分手,谁也没注意到身旁的路标(命运?),一个画着鸽子,一个指向C街,他们就这么分开了,走上了不同的街道,直到最后的holocaust,他(一头乱发的那个)倒下前看到站在麦克风前的(黄头发的那个)竟是他的朋友。
这不是故事,二战中臭名昭著的纳粹军官,战前他们不就是公务员,商店伙计,渔民吗?文革中,出卖你的不就是你身边的至朋好友吗?

还有很多细节多看几遍你可以发掘出来,比如鸽子街和C街的街景是很不一样的,鸽子街,人们在街头起舞,悠闲的呆着,小朋友在路边跳橡皮筋,而C街的街边橱窗展示出的无不是贪婪和暴力,街上行人的粗鲁冷漠,等等。

Flobots ~ Handlebars
I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handlebars
No handlebars

Look at me
Look at me
Hands in the air like it's good to be ALIVE
And I'm a famous rapper
Even when the paths're all crookedy
I can show you how to do-si-do
I can show you how to scratch a record
I can take apart the remote control
And I can almost put it back together
I can tie a knot in a cherry stem
I can tell you about Leif Ericson
I know all the words to "De Colores"
And "I'm Proud to be an American"
Me and my friend saw a platypus
Me and my friend made a comic book
And guess how long it took
I can do anything that I want cuz, look:

I can keep rhythm with no metronome
No metronome
No metronome

I can see your face on the telephone
On the telephone
On the telephone

Look at me
Look at me
Just called to say that it's good to be
ALIVE
In such a small world
All curled up with a book to read
I can make money open up a thrift store
I can make a living off a magazine
I can design an engine sixty four
Miles to a gallon of gasoline
I can make new antibiotics
I can make computers survive aquatic condition
I know how to run a business

And I can make you wanna buy a product
Movers shakers and producers
Me and my friends understand the future
I see the strings that control the systems
I can do anything with no assistance
I can lead a nation with a microphone
With a microphone
With a microphone
I can split the atoms of a molecule
Of a molecule
Of a molecule

Look at me
Look at me
Driving and I won't stop
And it feels so good to be
Alive and on top
My reach is global
My tower secure
My cause is noble
My power is pure
I can hand out a million vaccinations
Or let'em all die in exasperation
Have'em all healed of their lacerations
Have'em all killed by assassination
I can make anybody go to prison
Just because I don't like'em and
I can do anything with no permission
I have it all under my command
I can guide a missile by satellite
By satellite
By satellite
and I can hit a target through a telescope
Through a telescope
Through a telescope
And I can end the planet in a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust

I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handle bars
No handlebars

2 comments:

小迷糊 said...

所以说不给人做坏事的机会,好人就会变多.感谢命运吧,我们生活在富足的年代,有这个条件把很多劣根性塞在柜子角落里一辈子不拿出来见人.

镜子 said...

可还有不少人不满足于富足,而贪婪是无止境的。