熟悉的陌生人
《somebody I used to know》
這首歌旋律相當上口,一下子就抓住了我的耳朵,MV也有創意,白色的畫麵上一條不算筆直的線延伸再延伸,漸漸無數細小的脈絡匯集進來,單一的線條分叉成枝枝蔓蔓,縞素的紙麵瞬間碎裂成一麵鏡子。不規則的幾何圖形被快速填充著,從潔白到灰色,從褐色到暗紅,斑駁黯淡雜亂無章,裂片從背景攀延到人體,他被鑲嵌在嘈雜的三角,棱形,多邊形中,他的臉變得殘破,帶著怨恨和猙獰,他呐喊著,尖叫著,申述著...不甘心和憤憤不平,心碎和怒氣匆匆,指向背棄了他的女人。這時,畫麵轉向了同樣被不規則圖案覆蓋著的女人,她赤裸光滑的後背埋藏在同樣一片抽象的裂片中,她和他如此相似,她對著他控訴著,咆哮著,指責著....他和她曾經是赤裸相見的親密愛人,但是現在的他們,彼此對抗,用尖利的刀片切割彼此,因愛之名。
我喜歡這個充滿象征意義的MV,大塊大塊的幾何圖形勾畫出人們靈魂的不規則狀。不同的色彩或許代表著過去的經曆和記憶:那些心動那些快樂那些歡笑那些傷害那些爭吵那些患得患失那些若即若離那些痛並快樂著的時光....愛情總是這樣,一開始男人和女人因為某種熟悉和相通而彼此吸引,認為自己在萬千人海中找到了遺失的另一半,捍衛自我的疆界坍塌,他們放下了壁壘,那是一種獲救的希望,一種脫離孤獨的興奮,一種獲得認同和共鳴的喜悅。
但是,時間如同那條冷冰冰的切割線,一些細小的變化,一些不斷注入的潛流,光滑的外表逐層剝落,兩個靈魂,如同漂移的大陸板塊越靠越近,撞擊,大陸和大陸之間縫隙越來越小,撞擊,距離不斷縮短,撞擊..撞擊..撞擊,當兩人最終重合,卻發現已經身處在一片殘破的碎裂之中。那是和諧的結束,爭端的漩渦。靈魂中凸凹不平的地方都如此刺痛,曾經因為愛而收縮的尖刺如今鋒利而殘酷吐出閃閃寒光,那些本以為契合的棱角相互撞擊相互磨損顯得如此突兀而無解....熟悉的陌生人,我們真的因為熟悉而更加相愛麽?穿過愛的迷霧看到的是一片懸崖峭壁,無路可走的愛情才是這首歌要描繪的局麵。
男主對女友的離開感到痛苦,他恨她絕情,怎麽能走得如此幹脆呢?不過我覺得他更生氣的是自己沒有先采取這個舉動,其實愛要結束,誰下手都是一樣,但是先下手的那一個總是有麵子一些吧?他生氣的是自己沒有她的果斷,他們確實是愛過,不過不夠兼容,如此而已。
愛是前進中的包容,愛是擁抱後的退讓,眼裏容不得沙子的終究是因為愛得不夠吧?如果是真愛那麽無可選擇的就是要為了彼此改變,真愛就是你收回一根尖刺,我磨平一片棱角的過程,知道哪裏是她的隱痛,哪裏是他的禁區,慢慢回避那些不必要的碰撞,讓距離是距離,讓懸崖是懸崖,讓他是他,讓她是她,讓不規則的裂紋變成可以視而不見的背景...這大概就是傳說中的磨合,相愛的人彼此忍耐,這是人和人的相處之道,超過了情愛的範圍。終於有一天一切都平滑了,碰撞也少之又少,他們終於可以和平相處了,但是他們各自低著頭,開始感到缺了些什麽,好像太平淡,太乏味,太缺乏棱角....愛是這樣的一個dilemma。
要我說呢,嗯,還是熟悉的陌生人比較有意思。
Now and then I think of when we were together
Like when you said you felt so happy you could die
Told myself that you were right for me
But felt so lonely in your company
But that was love and it's an ache I still remember
You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness
Like resignation to the end, always the end
So when we found that we could not make sense
Well you said that we would still be friends
But I'll admit that I was glad that it was over
But you didn't have to cut me off
Make out like it never happened and that we were nothing
And I don't even need your love
But you treat me like a stranger and that feels so rough
No you didn't have to stoop so low
Have your friends collect your records and then change your number
I guess that I don't need that though
Now you're just somebody that I used to know
Now you're just somebody that I used to know
Now you're just somebody that I used to know
Now and then I think of all the times you screwed me over
But had me believing it was always something that I'd done
And I don't wanna live that way
Reading into every word you say
You said that you could let it go
And I wouldn't catch you hung up on somebody that you used to know
But you didn't have to cut me off
Make out like it never happened and that we were nothing
And I don't even need your love
But you treat me like a stranger and that feels so rough
And you didn't have to stoop so low
Have your friends collect your records and then change your number
I guess that I don't need that though
Now you're just somebody that I used to know
Somebody (I used to know)
Somebody (Now you're just somebody that I used to know)