We run like a river

（By David Bowie）


　　這首歌是無意間愛上的，收錄在 The Rise & Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars 這張專輯的第一首。這張專輯的好歌實在是非常多，但是起初它並沒有吸引我太多的注意，而是在約一年多前，友人給我看了 Brain Molko 在法國某節目自彈自唱之後，我才開始陶醉於其中。
　　David Bowie 唱的原版和 Brain Molko 的翻唱各有特色。兩者相較，Brain Molko 的 Acoustic 版本令我感覺較甜美（雖然這並不是一首甜美的曲子…），清爽的歌聲以及木吉他的清脆讓這首歌變得較清爽易入耳。而 Bowie則是較激動及悲傷的，我喜歡他的歇斯底里唱腔以及聽起來扁扁的聲音、緩慢的步調，由弱漸強，讓它更能帶動人的情緒。在曲末他瘋狂地喊著"Five Years~~"，讓我總是會忍不住跟著他唱：

　 　" I kiss you, you're beautiful, I want you to walk.
　　　We've got five years..."



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Pushing thru the market square, so many mothers sighing
News had just come over, we had five years left to cry in
News guy wept and told us, earth was really dying
Cried so much his face was wet, then I knew he was not lying

I heard telephones, opera house, favourite melodies
I saw boys, toys electric irons and T.V.'s
My brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare
I had to cram so many things to store everything in there
And all the fat-skinny people, and all the tall-short people
And all the nobody people, and all the somebody people
I never thought I'd need so many people

A girl my age went off her head, hit some tiny children
If the black hadn't a-pulled her off, I think she would have killed them
A soldier with a broken arm, fixed his stare to the wheels of a Cadillac
A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest, and a queer
threw up at the sight of that

I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlour, drinking milk shakes cold and long
Smiling and waving and looking so fine, don't think
you knew you were in this song

And it was cold and it rained so I felt like an actor
And I thought of Ma and I wanted to get back there
Your face, your race, the way that you talk
I kiss you, you're beautiful, I want you to walk

We've got five years, stuck on my eyes
five years, what a surprise
We've got five years, my brain hurts a lot
five years, that's all we've got

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Brain Molko 翻唱：