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Jesus To A Child

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Jesus To A Child是George Michael的又一个英国音乐排行榜第一。

Jesus To A Child

Kindness
In your eyes, I guess
You heard me cry
You smiled at me
Like Jesus to a child

I'm blessed
I know
Heaven sent
And Heaven stole
You smiled at me
Like Jesus to a child

And what have I learned
From all this pain
I thought I'd never feel the same
About anyone
Or anything again

But now I know
When you find your love
When you know that it exists
Then the lover that you miss
Will come to you on those cold, cold nights

When you've been loved
When you know it holds such bliss
Then the lover that you kissed
Will comfort you when there's no hope in sight

Sadness
In my eyes
No one guessed
Or no one tried
You smiled at me
Like Jesus to a child

Loveless and cold
With your last breath
You saved my soul
You smiled at me
Like Jesus to a child

And what have I learned
From all these tears
I've waited for you all those years
And just when it began
He took you away

But I still say
When you find love
When you know that it exists
Then the lover that you miss
Will come to you on those cold, cold nights

When you've been loved
When you know it holds such bliss
Then the lover that you kissed
Will comfort you when there's no hope in sight

So the words you could not say
I'll sing them for you
And the love we would have made
I'll make it for two

For every single memory
Has become a part of me
You will always be
My love

Well, I've been loved
So I know just what love is
And the lover that I kissed
Is always by my side

Oh, the lover I still miss
Was Jesus to a child

仁慈地,
你看着我,
你听到了我的哭泣,
你微笑地看着我,
就象上帝看着他的孩子。

曾经那么幸运地拥有你,
又失去你;
生活已不再一样。

找到了爱才知道爱真的存在,
它让我在无望的日子里感觉到安慰,
没有爱的日子是那么冰冷与无望。

你给我带来了爱,
但你却离去了,
我的眼里充满悲伤,
没有人知道为什么,
或者他们就不想知道。

我等待了你这么多年,
生活才开始,
幸福就失去了。

我只想唱给你,
唱我们昔日的爱,
你已是我生命的一部分,
你在远处微笑地看着我,
就象上帝看着他的孩子。

George Michael的这首歌是为他的同性伴侣Anselmo Feleppa而写的,在Anselmo身上,George Michael第一次无条件地深深爱上一个人。Anselmo因艾滋病并发症而去逝,他的病逝多年以后,一直让George Michael的灵魂得不到归属。

其实,大家还不知道George Michael是gay,他自己也是在多年的自我困惑中才接受自己的性倾向的。

但是他的性倾向已越来越成为大众和媒体的话题。

最近,也关注了一些关于同性恋方面的话题。对一个在成长过程中没有宗教和怀疑性倾向背景下长大的人,很难对异性恋之外的性爱形式有所理解。

常觉得同性恋是先天的吗,还是后天诱导的结果。

也有一些朋友和同事或同学是同性恋,通过George Michael后面的come out,才真正的来认真看待这一群体。

Outside

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Outside

Back to nature, just human nature
Getting on back to
I think I'm done with the sofa
I think I'm done with the hall
I think I'm done with the kitchen table, baby

Let's go outside (let's go outside)
In the sunshine
I know you want to, but you can't say yes
Let's go outside (let's go outside)
In the moonshine
Take me to the places that I love best

So my angel she says "don't you worry"
About the things they're saying, yeah
Got no friends in high places
And the game that you gave away
Wasn't worth playing

Let's go outside (let's go outside)
In the sunshine
I know you want to, but you can't say yes
Let's go outside (let's go outside)
In the meantime
Take me to the places that I love best

And yes I've been bad
Doctor won't you do with me what you can
You see I think about it all the time
Twenty four seven (twenty four, twenty four seven)

You say you want it, you got it
I never really said it before
There's nothing here but flesh and bone
There's nothing more, nothing more
There's nothing more

Back to nature, it's human nature
Getting on back to

I think I'm done with the sofa
I think I'm done with the hall
I think I'm done with the kitchen table, baby

Let's go outside (let's go outside)
In the sunshine
I know you want to, but you can't say yes
Let's go outside (let's go outside)
In the moonshine
Take me to the places that I love best

And yes I've been bad
Doctor won't you do with me what you can
You see I think about it all the time
I'd service the community (but I already have you see!)
I never really said it before

There's nothing here but flesh and bone
There's nothing more, nothing more
There's nothing more
Let's go outside
Dancing on the d-train baby

When the moon is high
And the grass is jumpin'
Come on, just keep on funkin'
Keep on funkin', just keep on funkin'

已经厌烦了寻常的性爱,
沙发,
大厅,
厨房的桌上,
让我们到外面去,

就象人的本性一样,
回归自然。
在阳光下,
在月色里,
到我们最喜欢的地方。

让我们到外面去,
这里没有别的了,
只有鲜活的躯体与骨肉。

这里没有别的了,
让我们到外面去,
继续欢乐。
……..

其实以前在George Michael日益窜红的时候,没人意识到他是gay,其实他自己也是经历了非常痛苦的自我怀疑,自我否认,痛苦疑惑,和最后接受的复杂过程。

在一次CNN采访时,他提及在27岁时,就有过一次同性恋体验;到意识到自己是gay时,他就没有再dating girls,因为他已认同了自己是gay这一事实。他说:他的歌看起来是写给女性的,实际上是写给男性对象的。

当时的英国,同性恋群体艾滋病流行,包括他的巴西男友就死于同性恋并发症;没人公开自己的同性恋身份。

George Michael是一个典型的hobbit型英国男人,非常随意自然,down to earth;但同时又是个非常顽固,原则性很强,特立独行,只按自已常理出牌的音乐人。他自己控制每一作品的音乐production,从一开始就确定了他作品的质量和个人风格,当然也让其它想在他身上赚钱的媒体机构不满。George Michael也是个非常注重个人隐私的人,他觉得外界没必要介入他的私生活,他对自己的名声,财富,以及音乐生涯,当时稳定的感情发展感觉满意。

1998年4月7日,George Michael加州Beverly Hills的Rogers Memorial 公园的公共洗手间被捕事件,直接把George Michael推到风口,让他成为举世观注的笑话。

对一个智商极高,思想自由,秉持个人创作源于生活的George Michael来说,他并没有回避矛盾,而是直接以自己的音乐—也就是半年以后创作出来风靡全球的位居英国音乐排行榜第一的歌曲outside来作为回击。

在歌曲里,首先,他承认他是同性恋,公园的事情是他所为,他对自己的同性恋身份毫无羞愧。

其次,他想质疑的是:国家机器无处不在,他们不光监管偷窥同性恋,也渗透到社会的不同角落,如公共场合的夫妻,压抑的个体;而警察自己却在无人注意下,搞起同性恋。

在这首歌曲里,他穿上了警察的服装,边歌边舞,并将厕所变成迪斯科舞厅,还插入了真实的当时媒体报道的信息,还调侃地戏称自己完成了社区服务。歌曲的曲风欢快与幽默, George Michael好象又回到了以前唱wake me up before you go-go的时又唱又跳很funkin'孩子。

这真是让举世惊掉了眼镜,这也太实诚了吧。

在一次采访的时候,George Michael也承认,他的outside就是一个报复,他let it a go! 那个卧底的警察后面诉讼他,要求赔偿,但未果。至于他公共厕所的行为,他后面也解释了。人在depression的时候,做出的有些事情是意想不到了。这我相信。如皇后乐队Freddie死后,其它三个人都经历了depression,谁也没想到有六个孩子的john会在外面包养个艳星。George Michael调侃得也很有趣:他对免费的漂亮男人,并不拒绝。哈。

George Michael被捕事件对他个人的声望毫无影,Outside一曲的走红也许是音乐界历史上最著名的针对对个人羞辱反败为胜的案例了。这首歌也为George Michael赢来了举世的尊重和热爱,因为他的作品表现了他的坦诚,不屈人格与而对来国家机器压力的不懈回击的作风。这也再次证明George Michael作为一个自由独立的音乐人的票房价值。

我喜欢George Michael,除了喜欢他特立独行音乐人的人品和风格,也喜欢他知道自己是谁,愿意做什么。

除了音乐,他对政治的认识也很深刻。他早就提醒媒体界了:Trump的种族主义言论会打开潘多拉的魔盒,当今社会思想的自由与宽松,是几代人努力出来的结果。

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2016年圣诞节那天他去世,那晚他的伴侣睡在车里,他早期Wham!的歌曲Last Christmas是圣诞期间的经典传唱,估计这样的处境与结局对所有他的忠实粉丝来说,都是个沉重的打击。斯人已逝,但他的音乐就是留给世人的最宝贵的财富。

到现在,我们还在听他,还在怀念他,就因为他的音乐告诉我们:要活出自我。

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