Take Me Home Country Road

很多很多年以前，在北京。第一次聽到這首John Denver的Take Me Home Country Road（帶我回家鄉村路），被它感動。當聽到“Country Road, Take Me Home, To The Place I Belong”，就覺得那是為我寫的一首歌。今天偶然翻出自己幾年前刻錄的歌曲集，又聽到了熟悉的旋律，還是覺得那是為我寫的歌。

 

來美國之後，有了很多閑暇的時間，看了很多以往隻聽過名字而沒有時間看的動畫片。其中宮崎駿的《側耳傾聽》就是以這首歌開頭。不知道是因為我愛這首歌，還是我愛劇中的小霽，從此這部劇就是這首歌的代言劇了。

 

如果我有一個恒定如一、簡單樸實的內核，就好了。不過，這裏的空間就會少了一個我。今天我的內核是思念遙遠的家，就讓我盡情表達吧。好像有些傷感，其實我心裏倒沒有。隻有遠遠的風聲輕輕地送進了我的耳朵裏。側耳傾聽，傾聽心靈深處的風聲。

 

Almost heaven, west Virginia
Blue ridge mountains
Shenandoah river -
Life is old there
Older than the trees
Younger than the mountains
Growing like a breeze

Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain momma
Take me home, country roads

All my memories gathered round her
Miners lady, stranger to blue water
Dark and dusty, painted on the sky
Misty taste of moonshine
Teardrops in my eye

Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain momma
Take me home, country roads

I hear her voice
In the morning hour she calls me
The radio reminds me of my home far away
And driving down the road I get a feeling
That I should have been home yesterday, yesterday

Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain momma
Take me home, country roads

Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain momma
Take me home, country roads
Take me home, now country roads
Take me home, now country roads