목소리가 훌륭한 악기죠 - Mr. Jones by Counting Crows

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oqAU5VxFWs&a=PwDlL2X29p4&playnext_from=ML

guitar가 훌륭한 악기이고, 그 소리에 많이 감동 받고 하지만 여러 가수들의 목소리와 노래는 절대 그에 못지 않은 감동을 줍니다. 지금은 좀 주춤하고 있지만 초기에 좋은 노래를 많이 들려 주었던 band죠. 어디 가다가 신문에서 봤는데 이 band에서 목소리를 맡고 있는 친구가 상당 기간 아파서 쉬었던 모양입니다. 보시다시피 원래도 마르지는 않았지만 정신 계통의 질환을 앓으면서 몸무게 아주 많이 늘었었나 봐요. 지금은 어떤지 모르겠습니다. 이 노래 외에도 여러 노래들을 들을 수 있네요.

I was down at the New Amsterdam staring at this yellow-haired girl
Mr. Jones strikes up a conversation with this black-haired flamenco dancer
She dances while his father plays guitar
She's suddenly beautiful
We all want something beautiful
I wish I was beautiful
So come dance this silence down through the morning
Cut Maria! Show me some of them Spanish dances
Pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones
Believe in me
Help me believe in anything
I want to be someone who believes

Mr. Jones and me tell each other fairy tales
Stare at the beautiful women
"She's looking at you. Ah, no, no, she's looking at me."
Smiling in the bright lights
Coming through in stereo
When everybody loves you, you can never be lonely
(모든 사람이 당신을 사랑하는데 어떻게 외로울 수가 있나요?)

I will paint my picture
Paint myself in blue and red and black and gray
All of the beautiful colors are very very meaningful
Grey is my favorite color
I felt so symbolic yesterday
If I knew Picasso
I would buy myself a gray guitar and play

Mr. Jones and me look into the future
Stare at the beautiful women
"She's looking at you.
Uh, I don't think so. She's looking at me."
Standing in the spotlight
I bought myself a gray guitar
When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely

I want to be a lion
Everybody wants to pass as cats
We all want to be big big stars, but we got different reasons for that
Believe in me because I don't believe in anything
and I want to be someone to believe

Mr. Jones and me stumbling through the barrio
Yeah we stare at the beautiful women
"She's perfect for you, Man, there's got to be somebody for me."
I want to be Bob Dylan
Mr. Jones wishes he was someone just a little more funky
When everybody loves you, son, that's just about as funky as you can be
(Bob Dylan보다는 좀더 funky한 사람이 되고싶다는데요. 저는 funky sound와 funky style guitar는 좀 알아도 사람이 funky한 건 어떤 건지 잘 모르겠네요.)

Mr. Jones and me staring at the video
When I look at the television, I want to see me staring right back at me
We all want to be big stars, but we don't know why and we don't know how
But when everybody loves me, I'm going to be just about as happy as can be
Mr. Jones and me, we're gonna be big stars..

할 말이 많은 거하고 위에서 처럼 줄줄 써나가는 거와 또 그걸 이런 노래로 만드는 건 전혀 다른 일이라는 거 정도는 알고 있습니다. 아래 비디오도 어떤 분이 만들었는지 아주 재밌네요, 음질도 좋은 편이고요. 이런 건 어떻게 만드는 건지 궁금합니다.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0uFWxkTv78

A long December라는 노래입니다. 지난 12월은 지겹게 추웠다는 의미에서 그렇게 느꼈을 수도 있겠네요.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D5PtyrewSs&feature=channel

A long December and there's reason to believe
Maybe this year will be better than the last
(이 가사가 아주 맘에 듭니다. 이렇게 믿으면서 사는거죠.)
I can't remember the last thing that you said as you were leavin'
당신이 떠날 때 한 마지막 말을 기억할 수 없어요
Now the days go by so fast

And it's one more day up in the canyons
And it's one more night in Hollywood
If you think that I could be forgiven...I wish you would
내가 용서받을 수 있을 걸로 생각한다면..그랬으면 하고요

The smell of hospitals in winter
And the feeling that it's all a lot of oysters, but no pearls
All at once you look across a crowded room
불현듯 사람들이 가득찬 방을 가로질러서 쳐다볼 때
To see the way that light attaches to a girl
어떤 소녀에게 빛이 가서 붙는 듯한 걸 보죠 (what an expression!)

And it's one more day up in the canyons
And it's one more night in Hollywood
If you think you might come to California...I think you should
(이 친구들이 California에서 시작한 것으로 알고 있습니다.)

Drove up to Hillside Manor sometime after two a.m.
And talked a little while about the year
I guess the winter makes you laugh a little slower,
겨울은 웃는 것도 조금 천천히 하게 되는 건지
Makes you talk a little lower about the things you could not show her
그녀에게 보여줄 수 없는 것에 대한 것은 조금 조용한 목소리로 하게 되는 건지

And it's been a long December and there's reason to believe
Maybe this year will be better than the last
I can't remember all the times I tried to tell my myself
To hold on to these moments as they pass

And it's one more day up in the canyon
And it's one more night in Hollywood
It's been so long since I've seen the ocean...I guess I should

color-blind라는 노래인데요, 가만히 보니까 좀 생각하게 만드는 가사를 쓰는 편이군요. 'Cruel Intentions'라고 상당히 힛트했던 영화에 나왔었다는데 저는 영화를 본 기억은 있는데 이 노래가 흘렀던 것은 기억이 나지 않습니다.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0s7ycdUcHk&feature=related

I am colorblind
Coffee black and egg white
Pull me out from inside
I am ready
I am taffy stuck and tongue tied
Stutter shook and uptight
Pull me out from inside
I am ready
I am fine

I am covered in skin
No one gets to come in
Pull me out from inside
I am folded and unfolded and unfolding
I am colorblind
Coffee black and egg white
Pull me out from inside
I am ready
I am fine

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