主题：【原创】Bruce Springsteen 河流 -- 杨大眼

兄弟在河里潜水多年，看了煮酒帖的一众摇滚大牛的my back pages, 决定不再潜水。很奇怪为什么河里没人说过Springsteen。我是在大学里才头一次听到他的歌。那时中文歌里独爱罗大佑，英文歌欣赏水准还停留在一些杂锦的pop, country之类的上面。偶尔路过磁带店，看到一个磁带封面上一个黑色背影，黑色短卷发，肩宽腰细，黑色皮夹克配紧身牛仔裤，吉他如枪般斜斜挂在臀部。上写the Greatest hits of Bruce Springsteen. 当时心想,

这爷们真他妈是条汉子啊！我当时只听过他的两首又十分之一歌，一首是street of Philadelphia,另一首是born in the usa， 另十分之一首乃是他在M.J.的we are the world里面的合唱（我第一次听到他的声音其实是在这首合唱里，但是当时不知道是谁能吼出这样粗粝但是震撼的声音)。street of Philadelphia 是汤姆汉克斯的电影的插曲，当年好像也是拿了那年的插曲小金人奖。born in the usa 是反战歌曲。这两首歌一首愤怒，一首忧伤，是Springsteen的两大不变的主题。

买到他的磁带之后，发现每首歌我都喜欢得要命。其中最喜欢的是the river.音乐有时候有一种神秘的力量，有的曲子你只要一听头几个音符，就会立刻喜欢上。the river就是这样，开头是他的口琴独奏马上让人沉静下来。然后他缓缓的唱他年轻时的姑娘:

I come from down in the valley where mister when you're young

They bring you up to do like your daddy done

Me and mary we met in high school when she was just seventeen

Wed ride out of that valley down to where the fields were green

Wed go down to the river

And into the river wed dive

Oh down to the river wed ride

懵懂少年遇到十七岁的女生，无忧无虑的纯真年代。这世界上多少人有同样的少年故事。

第二段：

Then I got mary pregnant and man that was all she wrote

And for my nineteen birthday I got a union card and a wedding coat

We went down to the courthouse and the judge put it all to rest

No wedding day smiles no walk down the aisle

No flowers no wedding dress

That night we went down to the river

And into the river wed dive

On down to the river we did ride

十九岁的贫穷男孩负起家庭的责任。婚礼简短而窘迫。想必双方的家人都不满意，未来值得憧憬，但也隐含阴影，他们准备好了吗？于是他们在新婚之夜开向河边，让河水抚平不安的心灵。

I got a job working construction for the johnstown company

But lately there aint been much work on account of the economy

Now all them things that seemed so important

Well mister they vanished right into the air

Now I just act like I dont remember, mary acts like she dont care

But I remember us riding in my brothers car

Her body tan and wet down at the reservoir

At night on them banks Id lie awake

And pull her close just to feel each breath shed take

Now those memories come back to haunt me, they haunt me like a curse

Is a dream a lie if it dont come true

Or is it something worse that sends me

Down to the river though I know the river is dry

Down to the river, my baby and i

Oh down to the river we ride

蓝领工人的生活艰难，失业给家庭生活致命的打击，贫贱夫妻百事哀。感情越来越冷淡，男人却永远怀念着

那年夏天在河里游泳的那个十七岁的女生，皮肤晒得黑黑的，也许还有着美丽的笑容和白白的牙齿。

故事简单而直接，但是音乐，歌词，和岩石般的声音配合起来，一种直指人心，催人泪下的力量产生了。

Springsteen的歌多是这样，叙事体，有画面感，词句简单直接，不斧不凿。歌词意义明确，多是描述美国小镇，蓝领阶层的生活。套用煮酒的说法，我觉得他更像是摇滚的北丐，功夫阳刚一路，拼的就是实力，与bob dylan的my back pages里面的微妙的哲学玄思大异其趣。

下面是这首歌的youtube视频：（我只会贴连接)

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