【煽峰点火】第4期：比如男人

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【煽峰点火】第4期：比如男人

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如果这个世界上没有了鲍勃·迪伦，让我再去选择一个偶像，我就选择伦纳德·科恩。

6年前的一个下午，我在一个过街天桥上看到一个卖打口唱片的人，我花了两元钱从他手里买到了伦纳德·科恩（Leonard Cohen）的《精选集》，这是我迄今为止做过的一笔最划算的交易。
从此，我开始喜欢上科恩。我曾试图走进这个人的世界，但我发现非常困难，但他那让人难忘的歌声又让我无法放弃。
一个评论家在分析科恩的音乐时曾说：“人们不知道他的歌曲唱的是什么，但知道那些歌曲很伟大。”这让我想起前段时间媒体关注的小资现象，一个很奇怪的现象是不管是中国小资还是外国小资，都喜欢伦纳德·科恩。
为什么会喜欢他？作为一个作家、垮掉派诗人，科恩在32岁时才在朋友的鼓励下拿起吉他，走上演唱道路。而这个时候，歌坛是鲍勃·迪伦、“披头士”、嬉皮运动和民谣复兴。科恩是个谦逊的人，他说：“我不过是个出名的无名小卒。”他还说：“做爱之后该对女士说的第一句话是什么？是‘谢谢你’。”他从来没有成为媒体的焦点，他深居简出，很少在公众场合露面，他也很少举行演唱会，他也没有热门歌曲，但是他的每一首歌曲都值得人们去思考，他受过良好的教育，更像是个知识分子类型的歌手，他在接受采访时更多的时间是在为对方解释他的思想，同行们对他尊敬有加，仅向他致敬的唱片就有3张……
他的很多作品都与爱和性有关，但他对这两者的描述和比喻永远是充满着黑色幽默和邻近绝望崩溃边缘。他对人性及社会有着敏感和深邃的洞察力，评论家罗伯特·克里斯高把他的作品形容成“最不可思议的传递两性亲昵行为的工具”。

他是一个真正的忧郁王子，他的歌曲总有一种让人挥之不去的淡淡忧伤，不论是演唱什么主题都这样。他的歌声苍老、沙哑，总是在一个平淡没有起伏的旋律线上行进，但是在平淡背后隐藏的是激情风暴。他的旋律听上十遍之后才能记住，但是记住之后听上一百遍也不会厌烦。音乐风格对他来说毫无意义，没有人喜欢谈论他的音乐风格，人们都喜欢打听他歌词背后的故事……
科恩喜欢擦地板，喜欢打扫房间，喜欢躺在浴缸中写作。
科恩是这样的一个人：当你把他当成一个小说家时，会发现他是个更出色的诗人；当你把他当成一个诗人时，会发现他是一个更出色的词曲作家；当你把他当成一个词曲作家时；会发现他更是一个出色表演者……科恩自己也说：“每次我拿起铅笔，我都不知道自己最终写出来的是小说还是诗歌还是一首歌曲。”其实，无论从哪一面去了解科恩，都只是了解到他的一个侧面。
当你在奥利弗·斯通的电影《天生杀人狂》的开头和结尾时听到科恩的歌声时，是不是觉得特酷？也许这才是小资喜欢科恩的原因。

当前文件：《天生杀人狂》片头曲Waiting For The Miracle

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Baby, I've been waiting, I've been waiting night and day. I didn't see the time, I waited half my life away. There were lots of invitations and I know you sent me some, but I was waiting for the miracle, for the miracle to come. I know you really loved me. but, you see, my hands were tied. I know it must have hurt you, it must have hurt your pride to have to stand beneath my window with your bugle and your drum, and me I'm up there waiting for the miracle, for the miracle to come. Ah I don't believe you'd like it, You wouldn't like it here. There ain't no entertainment and the judgements are severe. The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle, for the miracle to come. Waiting for the miracle There's nothing left to do. I haven't been this happy since the end of World War II. Nothing left to do when you know that you've been taken. Nothing left to do when you're begging for a crumb Nothing left to do when you've got to go on waiting waiting for the miracle to come. I dreamed about you, baby. It was just the other night. Most of you was naked Ah but some of you was light. The sands of time were falling from your fingers and your thumb, and you were waiting for the miracle, for the miracle to come Ah baby, let's get married, we've been alone too long. Let's be alone together. Let's see if we're that strong. Yeah let's do something crazy, something absolutely wrong while we're waiting for the miracle, for the miracle to come. Nothing left to do when you know that you've been taken. Nothing left to do when you're begging for a crumb Nothing left to do when you've got to go on waiting waiting for the miracle to come. When you've fallen on the highway and you're lying in the rain, and they ask you how you're doing of course you'll say you can't complain If you're squeezed for information, that's when you've got to play it dumb: You just say you're out there waiting for the miracle, for the miracle to come.

当前文件：《天生杀人狂》片尾曲The Future

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Give me back my broken night my mirrored room, my secret life it's lonely here, there's no one left to torture Give me absolute control over every living soul And lie beside me, baby, that's an order! Give me crack and anal sex Take the only tree that's left and stuff it up the hole in your culture Give me back the Berlin wall give me Stalin and St Paul I've seen the future, brother: it is murder. Things are going to slide, slide in all directions Won't be nothing Nothing you can measure anymore The blizzard, the blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it has overturned the order of the soul When they said REPENT REPENT I wonder what they meant When they said REPENT REPENT I wonder what they meant When they said REPENT REPENT I wonder what they meant You don't know me from the wind you never will, you never did I'm the little jew who wrote the Bible I've seen the nations rise and fall I've heard their stories, heard them all but love's the only engine of survival Your servant here, he has been told to say it clear, to say it cold: It's over, it ain't going any further And now the wheels of heaven stop you feel the devil's riding crop Get ready for the future: it is murder Things are going to slide, slide in all directions Won't be nothing Nothing you can measure anymore The blizzard, the blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it has overturned the order of the soul When they said REPENT REPENT I wonder what they meant When they said REPENT REPENT I wonder what they meant When they said REPENT REPENT I wonder what they meant There'll be the breaking of the ancient western code Your private life will suddenly explode There'll be phantoms There'll be fires on the road and the white man dancing You'll see a woman hanging upside down her features covered by her fallen gown and all the lousy little poets coming round tryin' to sound like Charlie Manson and the white man dancin' Give me back the Berlin wall Give me Stalin and St Paul Give me Christ or give me Hiroshima Destroy another fetus now We don't like children anyhow it is murder Things are going to slide, slide in all directions Won't be nothing Nothing you can measure anymore The blizzard, the blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it has overturned the order of the soul When they said REPENT REPENT I wonder what they meant When they said REPENT REPENT I wonder what they meant When they said REPENT REPENT I wonder what they meant When they said REPENT REPENT

科恩被称为“加拿大的鲍勃·迪伦”，但迪伦从来不是小资喜欢的对象。迪伦的名气比科恩大得多，他是一个偶像，一个时代的代言人。但正因如此，小资才觉得太具时代烙印的迪伦有些土，而科恩不同，他的歌曲没有时代特征，他现在的作品和30年前的一脉相承，所以不同时代的小布尔乔亚都会喜欢。另外，迪伦的歌词过多地具象在现实世界中，即便是一些情歌也是如此，而科恩则是一种残忍的浪漫。迪伦在创作时习惯于利用民谣或布鲁斯的节奏和韵律来决定歌词的韵脚，而科恩总是习惯以歌词为中心，再谱上旋律。迪伦没有受过高等教育，他的歌词完全是天才的流露，不拘一格，而科恩的歌词基本上是就是诗歌，更具文学上的技巧和学院派气质。迪伦对现实批判比较尖锐，而科恩总是把这种尖锐包裹在一个看似平静的情境之中，当你层层剥开，就能看到他暗示的情感或社会危机。他在《街头故事》的开头就有这样的描述：

这是我的街头经历
西班牙人在欢笑
卡迪拉克从夜色和毒气中穿过
我斜靠在老酒店的门槛
一只手触到自杀
另一只手触到玫瑰

当前文件：Stories Of The Street（街头经历）

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The stories of the street are mine, the Spanish voices laugh. The Cadillacs go creeping now through the night and the poison gas, and I lean from my window sill in this old hotel I chose, yes one hand on my suicide, one hand on the rose. I know you've heard it's over now and war must surely come, the cities they are broke in half and the middle men are gone. But let me ask you one more time, O children of the dusk, All these hunters who are shrieking now oh do they speak for us? And where do all these highways go, now that we are free? Why are the armies marching still that were coming home to me? O lady with your legs so fine O stranger at your wheel, You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal. The age of lust is giving birth, and both the parents ask the nurse to tell them fairy tales on both sides of the glass. And now the infant with his cord is hauled in like a kite, and one eye filled with blueprints, one eye filled with night. O come with me my little one, we will find that farm and grow us grass and apples there and keep all the animals warm. And if by chance I wake at night and I ask you who I am, O take me to the slaughterhouse, I will wait there with the lamb. With one hand on the hexagram and one hand on the girl I balance on a wishing well that all men call the world. We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky, and lost among the subway crowds I try to catch your eye.

科恩真正吸引人的原因在于他通过作品展现出的那种男人的魅力，歌声的魅力仅仅是个外在，任何磁性、天使般的声音都会使人厌倦，他的才华和智慧才是那些真正喜欢他的人——而不是小资——的主要原因。不论是男人还是女人，在欣赏他的作品时，都身不由己把自己想像成作品中的主人公，去感受其中的残忍、凄美或是无奈。科恩说：“诗歌似乎是女人天生的语言，如果你想向女人们表达自己，你就不得不去学会这种语言。”但科恩自己不是一个好情人，他似乎看穿了男女之情。所以，他只会把男女之间微妙的关系写到他的诗或歌词中，比如《再见，玛丽安娜》（So Long, Marianne）、《苏珊娜》（Suzanne）和《我是你的男人》（I'm Your Man），也正如他在《我是你的男人》中描述的一样：

当前文件：I'm Your Man（我是你的男人）

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如果你需要个情人我可以为你赴汤蹈火如果你需要另一种爱我会为你戴上面具如果你需要一个伴侣牵住我的手吧如果你愤怒得想揍人我会站在你面前因为我是你的男人月光如此明亮锁链如此沉重心中的猛兽迟迟不肯睡去我记忆起了给你的承诺那些从未实现的诺言啊，男人要是不低声下气就永远无法挽回女人心宝贝，我会拜倒在你的裙下我会大肆称赞你的美丽像天气闷热时的犬那样我会在你的心上挠痒痒我还会撕扯着你的床单我会说——请，请因为我是你的男人 If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask me to And if you want another kind of love I'll wear a mask for you If you want a partner Take my hand Or if you want to strike me down in anger Here I stand I'm your man If you want a boxer I will step into the ring for you And if you want a doctor I'll examine every inch of you If you want a driver Climb inside Or if you want to take me for a ride You know you can I'm your man Ah, the moon's too bright The chain's too tight The beast won't go to sleep I've been running through these promises to you That I made and I could not keep Ah but a man never got a woman back Not by begging on his knees Or I'd crawl to you baby And I'd fall at your feet And I'd howl at your beauty Like a dog in heat And I'd claw at your heart And I'd tear at your sheet I'd say please, please I'm your man And if you've got to sleep A moment on the road I will steer for you And if you want to work the street alone I'll disappear for you If you want a father for your child Or only want to walk with me a while Across the sand I'm your man If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask me to And if you want another kind of love I'll wear a mask for you

众歌手向伦纳德·科恩致敬专辑；专辑名化用I'm Your Man

当前文件：SO LONG, MARIANNE（再见，玛丽安娜）

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Come over to the window, my little darling, I'd like to try to read your palm. I used to think I was some kind of Gypsy boy before I let you take me home. Now so long, Marianne, it's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again. Well you know that I love to live with you, but you make me forget so very much. I forget to pray for the angels and then the angels forget to pray for us. Now so long, Marianne, it's time that we began ... We met when we were almost young deep in the green lilac park. You held on to me like I was a crucifix, as we went kneeling through the dark. Oh so long, Marianne, it's time that we began ... Your letters they all say that you're beside me now. Then why do I feel alone? I'm standing on a ledge and your fine spider web is fastening my ankle to a stone. Now so long, Marianne, it's time that we began ... For now I need your hidden love. I'm cold as a new razor blade. You left when I told you I was curious, I never said that I was brave. Oh so long, Marianne, it's time that we began ... Oh, you are really such a pretty one. I see you've gone and changed your name again. And just when I climbed this whole mountainside, to wash my eyelids in the rain! Oh so long, Marianne, it's time that we began ...

当前文件：SUZANNE（苏珊娜）

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Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river You can hear the boats go by You can spend the night beside her And you know that she's half crazy But that's why you want to be there And she feeds you tea and oranges That come all the way from China And just when you mean to tell her That you have no love to give her Then she gets you on her wavelength And she lets the river answer That you've always been her lover And you want to travel with her And you want to travel blind And you know that she will trust you For you've touched her perfect body with your mind. And Jesus was a sailor When he walked upon the water And he spent a long time watching From his lonely wooden tower And when he knew for certain Only drowning men could see him He said All men will be sailors then Until the sea shall free them But he himself was broken Long before the sky would open Forsaken, almost human He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone And you want to travel with him And you want to travel blind And you think maybe you'll trust him For he's touched your perfect body with his mind. Now Suzanne takes your hand And she leads you to the river She is wearing rags and feathers From Salvation Army counters And the sun pours down like honey On our lady of the harbour And she shows you where to look Among the garbage and the flowers There are heroes in the seaweed There are children in the morning They are leaning out for love And they will lean that way forever While Suzanne holds the mirror And you want to travel with her And you want to travel blind And you know that you can trust her For she's touched your perfect body with her mind.

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