”And So Is Love”など

承前*1

Director's Cut

Director's Cut

Red Shoes

Red Shoes

The Sensual World

The Sensual World

先週からケイト・ブッシュのDirector's Cutを聴いているのだが。
”Song of Solomon”、”Never Be Mine”、”And So Is Love”。”Never Be Mine”は元々The Sensual Worldに収められており、あとの2つは”The Red Shoesに収められていた。改めて繰り返して聴き、また歌詞を読み返してみて、どれも正統的なラヴ・ソングだなと思った。


The song of Solomon.
The song of everyone
Who walks the path of the solitary heart.
The soul cries out.
Here's a woman singing:
“Don't want your bullshit, yeah, just want your sexuality.
Don't want excuses yeah, write me your poetry in motion.
Write it just for me and sign it with a kiss”.
(”Song of Solomon”)

I look at you and see my life that might have been.
Your face just ghostly in the smoke.
They're setting fire in the cornfield as you're taking me home.
The smell of burning field will now mean you and here.
This is what I want, this is where I want to be.
This is what I need, this is where I need to be.
This is what I want but I know that it will never be mine.
The thrill and the hurting, the thrill and the hurting.
(”Never Be Mine”)

And you huh?
You do huh?
We let it in, we give it out
And in the end, what's it all about?
It must be love.
I give you my, I give you my...
You give me your, you give me your joy.
We used to say “Ah Hell we're young”, but now we see that life is sweet and so is love.
We used to say “Ah Hell we're young”, but now we see that life is sweet and so is love.
And whatever happens, what really matters?
It's all we've got, isn't it enough?


You let it slip.
You let it slip.
I love you more,
I love you more for it.
Joust show me that you love me.
All for love.
Just for the sake of love.
You set me free.
I set you free.
Can't you see?
( ”And So Is Love”)

”Never Be Mine”はせつなく、”And So Is Love”はしみじみ。
”And So Is Love”ではエリック・クラプトンがまるで自己パロディなんじゃないかと思うほどクラプトンっぽいギターを弾いているのだが、今回はそれも納得してしまう。ところで、歌詞の中の” life is sweet”はオリジナルでは”life is sad”だった*2。この変更によって意味が全く正反対になってしまったのだ。「人生は悲しく、そして愛も悲しい」から「人生は甘く、そして愛も甘い」へ。オリジナルを聴いた時には、この歌詞にこのクラプトンの弾きっぷりというのはやり過ぎなんじゃないかと思ったのだが。まあ、”life is sad”と” life is sweet”とで、どちらが好きかというのは人それぞれなのだろうけど。Mojoのインタヴューで、Keith Cameronは”And So Is Love”の歌詞の変更について突っ込んでいるのだが、ケイト・ブッシュ本人は、

Because I thought it was so bloody depressing(laughs). I thought I couldn't just leave it in such a downer. That was really why. I didn't want to do it as me then, it was me now. (p.84)
と答えている。