這首有趣的曲子是描寫中年男子認同危機,Paul Simon在歌曲中描述了中年男子的信心危機,用了很多有趣的字眼像是欲振乏力的soft in the middle, 掘骨人-不暸bonedigger , 啤酒肚先生Mr. Beerbelly,注意力也無法集中了 short of attention, 然後他還很擔心家庭和可能突然死去的意外而唱出Where’s my wife and family / What if I die here / Who’ll be my role-model.
歌曲中的Al 和Betty 的由來則是因為在一個party上有人不斷地叫他Al,和她的前妻Betty,而給了他寫歌的靈感.
這首歌的旋律很輕快,歌曲中有種歡愉的氛圍,加上Paul Simon那充滿溫和磁性的嗓音,每次聽都覺得心情很好,就推薦給大家吧
Paul Simon – you can call me Al
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1941年10月13日出生於紐澤西、2001年被引進搖滾名人殿堂的保羅‧賽門過去40年來其音樂歷程已 經充分證明了他傑出的作曲能力。從賽門與葛芬柯二重唱開始，一連串膾炙人口的歌曲如＜Sound Of Silence＞、＜Mrs. Robinson＞、＜Bridge Over Troubled Water＞…到單飛後＜50 Ways To Leave Your Lover＞、＜Slip Sliding Away＞、＜Graceland＞…都足令保羅‧賽門名列當代最偉大作曲家之林。
More info:
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You Can Call Me Al Lyrics (Paul Simon)
A man walks down the street
He says why am I soft in the middle now
Why am I soft in the middle
The rest of my life is so hard
I need a photo-opportunity
I want a shot at redemption
Don’t want to end up a cartoon
In a cartoon graveyard
Bonedigger Bonedigger
Dogs in the moonlight
Far away my well-lit door
Mr. Beerbelly Beerbelly
Get these mutts away from me
You know I don’t find this stuff amusing anymore
If you’ll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty
And Betty when you call me
You can call me Al
A man walks down the street
He says why am I short of attention
Got a short little span of attention
And wo my nights are so long
Where’s my wife and family
What if I die here
Who’ll be my role-model
Now that my role-model is
Gone Gone
He ducked back down the alley
With some roly-poly little bat-faced girl
All along along
There were incidents and accidents
There were hints and allegations
If you’ll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty
And Betty when you call me
You can call me Al
Call me Al
A man walks down the street
It’s a street in a strange world
Maybe it’s the Third World
Maybe it’s his first time around
He doesn’t speak the language
He holds no currency
He is a foreign man
He is surrounded by the sound
The sound
Cattle in the marketplace
Scatterlings and orphanages
He looks around, around
He sees angels in the architecture
Spinning in infinity
He says Amen! and Hallelujah!
If you’ll be my bodyguard
I can be your long lost pal
I can call you Betty
And Betty when you call me
You can call me Al
Call me Al
more music: 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
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Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard
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painting:
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