渴望之書

The Book of Longing -- by Leonard Cohen, Music by Philip Glass



I can't make the hills
The system is shot
I'm living on pills
For which I thank G-d

I followed the course
From chaos to art
Desire the horse
Depression the cart

I sailed like a swan
I sank like a rock
But time is long gone
Past my laughing stock

My page was too white
My ink was too thin
The day wouldn't write
What the night pencilled in

My animal howls
My angel's upset
But I'm not allowed
A trace of regret

For someone will use
What I couldn't be
My heart will be hers
Impersonally

She'll step on the path
She'll see what I mean
My will cut in half
And freedom between

For less than a second
Our lives will collide
The endless suspended
The door open wide

Then she will be born
To someone like you
What no one has done

She'll continue to do
I know she is coming
I know she will look
And that is the longing
And this is the book



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即使很久以前就開始到處看見海報旗幟、書店陳列，有看見了 Leonard Cohen 跟 Philip Glass 的名字，眼睛一亮！然後還是繼續走我的路...
知道音樂廳要上演，知道書，知道cd，不過，並沒有渴望去買...

直到前幾天，看見書中詩句。

然後今天晚上，突然聽見第一首序曲，渴望之書（I can't make the hills），
哇~~
對！這就是菲利普葛拉斯。

配起來真是太對了。

瞬間衝上網，查兩廳院的票賣得怎麼樣了！

日期就是明天，
只是剩下的位子... 嗯... 價格有點高昂..|||

好在萬能的網際網路從不讓人失望，依然讓我聽見全曲。

順便還聽聽cohen以前的音樂。

突然心中湧起感謝，謝謝之前讓我去看電影《菲利普葛拉斯的12樂章》，有一種，好像知道這些音符、這些文字是怎麼來的，的祕密的連結。

音樂很棒，句字也很棒，有一種高原的遼闊。
（不過不曉得是不是因為看過《達賴的一生》跟《時時刻刻》，又知道他們兩個人都跟禪有關係... 我真的很沒有音樂跟詩的領悟力 orz）

然後在Youtube就找到了上面的影片。（其實沒有很喜歡它配的影像耶...用聽的就好了 XD）

無論如何，發現有配樂的詩果然比較好讀 :p