2009年5月7日 星期四

Careless Whisper



I feel so unsure,
As I take your hand and lead you to the dance floor.
As the music dies...
Something in your eyes,
Calls to mind a silver screen,
And all its sad goodbyes.

CHORUS
I'm never gonna dance again,
Guilty feet have got no rhythm.
Though it's easy to pretend,
I know you're not a fool.
I should have known better than to cheat a friend,
And waste a chance that I'd been given.
So I'm never gonna dance again,
The way I danced with you.

ooh ooh

Time can never mend,
The careless whisper of a good friend.
To the heart and mind,
Ignorance is kind
There's no comfort in the truth,
Pain is the all you'll find.

CHORUS
I'm never gonna dance again,
Guilty feet have got no rhythm.
Though it's easy to pretend,
I know you're not a fool.
I should have known better than to cheat a friend,
And waste a chance that I'd been given.
So I'm never gonna dance again,
The way I danced with you.

Tonight the music seems so loud,
I wish that we could lose this crowd.
Maybe it's better this way,
We'd hurt each other with the things we want to say.

We could have been so good together,
We could have lived this dance forever...
But now, who's gonna dance with me?
Please stay.

CHORUS
And I'm never gonna dance again,
Guilty feet have got no rhythm.
Though it's easy to pretend,
I know you're not a fool.
I should have known better than to cheat a friend,
And waste a chance that I'd been given.
So I'm never gonna dance again,
The way I danced with you.

ooh ooh

Now that you're gone...
Now that you're gone...
Now that you're gone...
Was what I did so wrong?
So wrong that you had to leave me alone?

自小喜欢这首歌, 曾经有段时间, 是用这首歌来做电话铃声.

阅读歌词, 有很多不明白的地方. 例如:
1. 为什么首歌的歌名叫 Careless Whisper, 「不小心地私語」和 cheating 有什么关系?
2. "The careless whisper of a good friend" 即是点解? 同第个女人搞野, 然后唔觉意响朋友面前炫耀时爆响口, 比女朋友听到?
3. "I should have known better than to cheat a friend" 为什么 "cheat a friend" 而不是 "cheat my girlfriend"?
4. "And waste a chance that I'd been given." 系米代表以前女朋友曾经比过一次机会, 但男主角无珍惜, 再重蹈覆辙呢?

14 則留言:

篤篤篤撐 提到...

哇, 1984~~~
我仲記得geroge micheal既白色泳褲~~~

hehehahavevewawa 提到...

1)我相信"Careless Whisper"是解作"閑話一句"
2)我會解作"好朋友的閑話一句".
有些時候,我們困惑是因為自已身在局中,
作為局外人的好朋友的輕輕一句,足以道出真相.
3)我覺得"cheat a friend"比較配合音樂.
4)我都認為妳解得對.

匿名 提到...

閣下英文水平高得令人汗顏。

Betty 提到...

甘其实成个故事即系点呢?

Betty 提到...

甘为什么不是"cheat my love" 而是 "cheat a friend" ?

呢个 "cheat a friend" 入面的 friend 与 "careless whisper of a good friend" 的 friend, 是否同一个人来的?

陳大文部落 提到...

嗱,不如我問你一個好簡單嘅問題:

你覺得呢首歌好唔好聽?

如果唔好聽,其實填咩歌詞都無乜所謂。

但如果你覺得好好聽,咁基本上啲歌詞有什麼邏輯上的差錯,其實又問題不大。

反正呢首歌又唔似用來做「英語評估測試」,相反,呢首歌幾乎長期佔據 Billbroad 高位置,到而家都仲係金曲喎。

好聽咪得囉,係咪?

Betty 提到...

系好听...

我想知道个故事吖嘛! 唔系话D英文有问题, 都唔系探讨嗰D gramma 之类.

我系真系想知道究竟嗰笔者想讲个乜故事吖!

hehehahavevewawa 提到...

>>甘其实成个故事即系点呢?

隻歌形容失戀嘛,我看不出有什麼精彩故事啊,
可能我欠想像力喇.

>>甘为什么不是"cheat my love" 而是 "cheat a friend" ?

我相信係要考慮到rhyming.
好似作者用上的 again,pretend,friend.
它們都是相關的.

>>呢个 "cheat a friend" 入面的 friend 与 "careless whisper of a good friend" 的 friend, 是否同一个人来的?

我相信"cheat a friend" 入面的 friend
是歌者的女友.
而"careless whisper of a good
friend" 的 friend 是一個開解歌者的老友記.

我有咁既想法,係因為以下呢段有特別的氣氛,與其餘的幾段不同.

Time can never mend,
The careless whisper of a good friend.
To the heart and mind,
Ignorance is kind
There's no comfort in the truth,
Pain is the all you'll find.

凱恩 提到...

我都好鐘意呢首歌的

個人認為歌中的女主角是男主角的好朋友(男)的女朋友…

所以跳舞時才會感到內疚
才會覺得騙了朋友
至於careless whisper
可能是說錯了什麼透露了自己的心聲
導致了覆水難收的結果

hehehahavevewawa 提到...

回應凱恩,
係喎!可能係咁:
歌者同條女跳舞時,細細聲說:Judy 妳今晚好靚喎,
死,面前條女查實叫Mary啊,仲唔斷正!

若缺齋老人 提到...

咪扮老,首野係我個年代既!

另一版本仲正,由John Candy主演...一個同我好似樣既明星!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no1BJy58JxU&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fdodderer%2Eblogspot%2Ecom%2F2009%2F02%2Fblog%2Dpost%5F26%2Ehtml&feature=player_embedded

** 飛雪素素 ** 提到...

Well, I never look deep, so there might be a lot more to it than this, but here's my take on it.

"In several of George Michael's songs, he used dancing as a metaphor for a relationship. A "careless whisper" could be gossip, or could be a betrayed confidence, or even a metaphor for a bigger kind of betrayal. So I'd say that he's singing about realizing that he has carelessly betrayed a lover, and now he's seeing how badly he's hurt someone he cares about. He's at the point where he realizes that he's destroyed something that matters, and there's not a thing he can do to make it better."

Sweetly painful. Campy, yes, but still one of my favorite songs and artists.

L L 提到...

哩首歌初聽好,但不耐聽,總覺線旋律有些造作。

匿名 提到...

I enjoyed reading your blog. Keep it that way.