Agnes Obel’s Riverside

今早，通过博客Caught by the River发现了这首歌，认识了Agnes Obel这位丹麦女歌手。这首Riverside来自Agnes Obel的首张专辑Philharmonics. 该专辑为新民谣和Indie风格，2010年10月在欧洲发行，2011年中获得了数个欧洲的奖项。我听下来，认为Riverside是这张专辑里最让人共鸣的一首作品，相信必会成为一代经典。这首作品有北欧典型的清冽氛围，并且悠远而怀旧，伤感随着水波荡漾。我已经连续听了十多遍，看了四个不同版本的Mtv, 其中最为精彩的当属官方版本，另一个Shazam的现场版因为有大提琴的加入别有一种味道。听这首歌，不能忽略了歌词：

Down by the river by the boats
Where everybody goes to be alone
Where you wont see any rising sun
Down to the river we will run

When by the water we drink to the dregs
Look at the stones on the riverbed
I can tell from your eyes
You’ve never been by the riverside

Down by the water the riverbed
Somebody calls you somebody says
swim with the current and float away
Down by the river every day

Oh my God I see how everything is torn in the river deep
And I don’t know why I go the way
Down by the riverside

When that old river runs past your eyes
To wash off the dirt on the riverside
Go to the water so very near
The river will be your eyes and ears

I walk to the borders on my own
Fall in the water just like a stone
Chilled to the marrow in them bones
Why do I go here all alone

Oh my God I see how everything is torn in the river deep
And I don’t know why I go the way
Down by the riverside (x2)
(ooh ohh iii)x3
down by the riverside x2

 

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