Tony Levinが

Be My Thrill

Be My Thrill

WeepiesのBe My Thrill*1の封を切って聴いてみる。このアルバムの全14曲のうち6曲でキング・クリムゾンのトニー・レヴィンがベースを弾いているんだね。どの曲もキャッチーで聴いていて心地よい。それから、やけくそ的にオプティミスティックな歌詞も気に入った。例えば、”They’re In Love, Where Am I?”;


Lovers walk two by two
Doing things lovers do
They’re in love, where am I?
I see them on my way home,
how I hate to be alone
They’re in love, where am I?


I guess I have to hope
that today the sun will shine
And maybe tomorrow you’ll be mine


Until that day I will wait
and watch the lovers on the lake
They’re in love, where am I?
I walk alone on lover’s lane
past the kisses in the rain
They’re in love, where am I?
They’re in love, where am I?

この曲ではそれほど言葉の響きに拘ってはいないのだけれど*2、この人たちは作詞においてはリトル・リチャードの子孫*3という側面も持っているようだ。例えば表題作の” Be My Thrill”;

Be my thrill, my little white pill
my unpaid bill, the one who will
Be my love, my little grey dove,
my push and my shove, my heaven above


And we tumble down like Jack and Jill
and I miss all of the joy you kill
But I love you still, be my thrill


Be my one, my day in the sun,
and little pop gun, the best thing I’ve done
Be my what, my open and shut
my everything but, my little hot slut


And every morning is like the one before
And everybody needs someone to adore
I’m counting on you
Oh baby say you will
Oh baby be my thrill


Be my youth, my kissing booth,
my little sweet tooth, my beauty and truth
Be my thrill, my little white pill
my unpaid bill, the one who will