來自七十年代的憂傷: Goodbye to Love - The Carpenters

百聽不厭的聲音裡面, 一定包括The Carpenters。女主唱karen carpenters 來得快, 去得更快。在我未懂什麼是厭食症的時候, 便有人告訢我她是厭食症離世的。

初次接觸The Carpenters的 Top of the World的時候, Karen Carpenter 已經去世了很多年。細聽那張精選大碟, rainy days and monday, yesterday once more, close to you, 還有 sing, 一直聽一直唱。幾年前曾經把唱片放在朋友私家車的音響裡, 讓那帶點滄桑的聲音伴我走看過許多風景。

今天電腦隨機播放那幾年沒好好細聽的聲音, 絕響總能喚起一種淡淡的憂傷, 而且那種憂傷是人愈大才愈懂。

錯過了六七十年代英文流行曲的黃金時代, 現在看那時候的服飾、再細聽大樂隊伴奏, 還有那時的唱腔, 是時代感。簡單直接的旋律歌詞依然動人, 全因人性永遠不會過時。


Goodbye to Love - The Carpenters

Songwriters: CARPENTER, RICHARD LYNN / BETTIS, JOHN

I'll say goodbye to love

No one ever cared if I should live or die
Time and time again the chance for love has passed me by
And all I know of love is how to live without it
I just can't seem to find it

So I've made my mind up
I must live my life alone
And though it's not the easy way
I guess I've always know

I'd say goodbye to love
There are no tomorrows for this heart of mine
Surely time will lose these bitter memories
And I'll find that there is someone to believe in
And to live for something I could live for

All the years of useless search
Have finally reached an end
Loneliness and empty days will be my only friend
From this day love is forgotten
I'll go on as best I can

What lies in the future is a mystery to us all
No one can predict the wheel of fortune as it falls
There may come a time when I will see that I've been wrong
But for now this is my song

And it's goodbye to love

I'll say goodbye to love