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Jan
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New Amsterdam
New Amsterdam 是著名摇滚乐队Travis的一首非常好听的歌曲。光看名字,几乎也可以引起我无限的美好想象。因为人们总是很容易由此联想到荷兰的黄金时代。
事实上,这首歌的歌词的确是充满了诗意:
"New Amsterdam" Jean-Michel Basquiat, Francois Truffaut, Robert Zimmerman and de Niro Paris, Texas - end of the world New York, New York, Good bye girl And they meet On Blaker Street Or the Park that is Central Oh no I watched the sun go down Down down beneath the ground And it's a new day, It's a new dawn, In New Amsterdam. The stranger in the moonlight, Looks stranger in the moonlight And they meet On Blaker Street Or the Park that is Central Oh no I watched the sun go down Down down beneath the ground And it's a new day, It's a new dawn, In New Amsterdam. And we meet On Blaker Street Or the Park that is Central Oh no I watched the sun go down Down down beneath the ground And it's a new day, It's a new dawn, In New Amsterdam.
在歌词的开头提到了很多名字,都与新阿姆斯特丹——如今的纽约很有关系:Jean-Michel Basquiat是纽约著名的涂鸦画家,Francois Truffaut是著名的法国导演,写过一篇抨击法国电影的文章被纽约的出版商Simon Schuster发表, Robert Zimmerman换成另一个名字Bob Dylan,即是名闻天下的摇滚艺术家,而de Niro则是出生曼哈顿的美国最伟大的演员之一。
除此之外,Paris Texas是一部电影名,其主人公Travis则是Travis乐队名字的来源。
曲子各段之间意向比较独立,但都充满了意境。在Fran的磁力声线下,堪称完美。