【一天分享一首歌之第223天】〈America〉/ Simon & Garfunkel
馬欣的《當代寂寞考》引了〈The Sound of Silence〉的歌詞當引言，去年專訪的時候，她也提到小時候在Simon & Garfunkel的歌曲裡得到很大的「被理解」的安全感。而我對這對雙人組的認識，則來自《成名在望》，當柔依戴舒奈兒飾演的姐姐要離家去追夢，她放了這張唱片，告訴媽媽「這就是我的心情」。
今晚就來聽這首〈America〉，柔聲中看著自己，看忙碌的分秒沈澱。這樣的音樂，也算是所謂Happy-Sad吧？
晚安。
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAoArleLZEk
#一天分享一首歌
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"America"
Let us be lovers,
We'll marry our fortunes together.
I've got some real estate
Here in my bag.
So we bought a pack of cigarettes,
And Mrs. Wagner's pies,
And walked off
To look for America.
"Kathy", I said,
As we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh,
Michigan seems like a dream to me now.
It took me four days
To hitch-hike from Saginaw.
"I've come to look for America."
Laughing on the bus,
Playing games with the faces,
She said the man in the gabardine suit
Was a spy.
I said, "Be careful,
His bow tie is really a camera."
"Toss me a cigarette,
I think there's one in my raincoat."
We smoked the last one
An hour ago.
So I looked at the scenery,
She read her magazine;
And the moon rose over an open field.
"Kathy, I'm lost", I said,
Though I knew she was sleeping.
"I'm empty and aching and
I don't know why."
Counting the cars
On the New Jersey Turnpike
They've all come
To look for America,
All come to look for America,
All come to look for America.
