Ray LaMontagne 《Empty》
美添音乐
Everyday music
第346添
我不是钞票。
但我却像一张被揉过的纸币，在社会上流动着。
——电影 《超脱》
歌名:《Empty》
歌者：Ray LaMontagne
词曲：Ray LaMontagne
流派： 民谣
歌曲评分：满分五星，歌词意境、旋律动听程度（包括歌手的演唱是否优美）、情感的丰富性、配乐水平、流行程度等五个方面判断。
学习难度：最容易的为1星，最难为5星。
歌词
She lifts her skirt up to her knees
Walks through the garden rows with her bare feet, laughing
I never learned to count my blessings
I choose instead to dwell in my disasters
I walk on down the hill
Through grass, grown tall and brown
And still its hard somehow to let go of my pain
On past the busted back of that old and rusted Cadillac
That sinks into this field, collecting rain
Will I always feel this way?
So empty, so estranged
And of these cut-throat busted sunsets
These cold and damp white mornings
I have grown weary
If through my cracked and dusted dime-store lips
I spoke these words out loud would no one hear me?
Lay your blouse across the chair
Let fall the flowers from from your hair
And kiss me with that country mouth, so plain
Outside, the rain is tapping on the leaves
To me it sounds like they're applauding us the the quiet love we made
Will I always feel this way?
So empty, so estranged
Well I looked my demons in the eyes
Laid bare my chest, said "Do your best, destroy me
You see, I've been to hell and back so many times
I must admit you kind of bore me."
There's a lot of things that can kill a man
There's a lot of ways to die
Listen, some already did that walked beside me
There's a lot of things I don't understand
Why so many people lie
Its the hurt I hide that fuels the fire inside me
Will I always feel this way?
So empty, so estranged
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多添一点：
今天分享一首来自Ray LaMontagne 的《Empty》。
这首歌来自歌手2006年发行的专辑《Till The Sun Turns Black》,专辑获得了商业上的成功，进入了排行榜的前40名，在发行的第一周就卖出了28000张。2007年6月18日，这张专辑在英国再次发行，在英国75张最佳专辑排行榜上达到了第35位。
2011年的电影《超脱》，用它作为插曲。这首歌描述的空虚感很接近电影《超脱》中描述的感觉。大提琴也把这种压抑感体现的淋漓尽致。
Ray LaMontagne全名Raymond Charles Jack LaMontagne，出生在美国新罕布什尔州。是一名创作型歌手。他的演唱风格很独特。他自己形容他是用内脏来演唱的而不是用鼻子。滚石杂志在评论他专辑时称赞他有“金子般的声音”。他很喜欢隐居的生活，他称自己是一个“非常注重隐私的人”，很少接受采访。且在2009年，他斥资105万美元在马萨诸塞州阿什菲尔德购买了一个103英亩的农场，与家人过起了田园生活。
歌曲中的空虚感并没有影响他现实的生活，也许这就是超脱吧。