高中的最后一个学期天天宅在家里,在一个叫音乐红茶馆的网站上,挨个听上面所有的英文歌。那个时候还没有flash,所有的在线音视频网站,都是realplayer。
Pet Shop Boys,宠物店男孩,很萌的乐队名。听的第一首就是这个Being Boring。喜欢他们的曲调——嗯,自己喜欢上的任何一首歌,都是从曲调开始的。PSB的调调,总是带来一种穿越时空,幻梦,未来光年,等等的映象。很特别,像是乘上一艘宇宙巡航机,穿梭于太空中,偶尔回望一下远远的蓝色地球。
刚才忽然有了点儿伤逝年华的心情,播放器里又随到了这首歌。这是自己爱的歌里面比较少的,喜欢词远胜于曲的一首。PSB的歌词,总是触及存在的本质,带着微微的忧伤,却并不陷入到沉重的感情里。总是带着诙谐的语气,轻描淡写那些本应让人纠结、悲伤、绝望的东西。这也是我最喜欢他们的一点。
Pet Shop boys: "Being Boring"

I came across a cache of old photos
And invitations to teenage parties
"Dress in white" one said, with quotations
From someone's wife, a famous writer
In the nineteen-twenties
When you're young you find inspiration
In anyone who's ever gone
And opened up a closing door
She said: "We were never feeling bored
'Cause we were never being boring
We had too much time to find for ourselves
And we were never being boring
We dressed up and fought, then thought: "Make amends"
And we were never holding back or worried that
Time would come to an end"
When I went I left from the station
With a haversack and some trepidation
Someone said: "If you're not careful
You'll have nothing left and nothing to care for
In the nineteen-seventies"
But I sat back and looking forward
My shoes were high and I had scored
I'd bolted through a closing door
I would never find myself feeling bored
'Cause we were never being boring
We had too much time to find for ourselves
And we were never being boring
We dressed up and fought, then thought: "Make amends"
And we were never holding back or worried that
Time would come to an end
We were always hoping that, looking back
You could always rely on a friend
Now I sit with different faces
In rented rooms and foreign places
All the people I was kissing
Some are here and some are missing
In the nineteen-nineties
I never dreamt that I would get to be
The creature that I always meant to be
But I thought in spite of dreams
You'd be sitting somewhere here with me
'Cause we were never being boring
We had too much time to find for ourselves
And we were never being boring
We dressed up and fought, then thought: "Make amends"
And we were never holding back or worried that
Time would come to an end
We were always hoping that, looking back
You could always rely on a friend
And we were never being boring
We had too much time to find for ourselves
And we were never being boring
We dressed up and fought, then thought: "Make amends"
And we were never being boring
We were never being bored
'Cause we were never being boring
We were never being bored