Sally Potter: Tango Lesson

Sally Potter的Tango Lesson是我極喜歡的電影。每當我需要pick up我的心情時， Tango Lesson的音樂就是我的選擇之一。我鼓勵每個人都要有意識的找到一首歌，一曲音樂，成為自己心情的守護者。您可以跟我分享能pick up您的心情的音樂嗎？

19 thoughts on “Sally Potter: Tango Lesson”

  1. Thank you, Monita, for your vote of confidence.

    Please treat this place as your playground for your intellectural discussion and sharing.

    Thank you for choosing Canmeng Aveda service.

    Live, love, learn and laugh

    Ping

  3. Dear Carrie:

    Thank you for being so supportive to Sylvie in Da An. I really appreciate for your vote with what you buy. However, I challenge you to try another haristylist so when Sylvie is on vacation or not available, you will have another good friend to take care of you. I want to start this new awareness of helping young stylists to grow by giving your vote to them, instead of requesting the same stylists. Sylvie will be proud of you if you want to try another stylist. This is the culture I want to build. This is why I think commission based reward system breed the negative energy from us.

    I will consider to take a look on the B & B next time I visit Taitung. It looks fabulous.

    I did experience Kundalini 10 years ago when I was in India. Frankly speaking, I am over the guru chasing phase, especially the organized institution that charge enormous amount of money for their program. It is an industy now.

    I am happy to know that you like Kundalini.

    Ping

  4. Dear Pinky:

    Thank you for sharing your life and death experience. I knew you have a serious head injury. All bicycle riders need to wear protective head gear. I have a relative who works at emergency room in the States. He told me that head injury is the number one threat to bicycle rider.

    I love to read your writing with so much inner search. I also love the movie that you mentioned.

    Music is the magic power that can capture our emotion and our memory.

    You and Vicky are the lucky few who can see the world with two wheels.

    What a life.

    Ping

  5. Dear Ping,

    When I read your reply, I am smiling.

    I love Dulan where is my stay in Taitung. I only lived in one hotel called “來吹涼風”. What they provide is the basic function & simple thing, the natural which is the priceless.

    Here is the website and I believe you’ll like it as well.
    http://wind.e089.com.tw

    If you have interest, you can visit my blog. I took some photos in the album of Taitung. It may remind you the good memory there.

    I love Norah Jones recently especially when I am aloneness. Her voice seems can reach my soul. Not too light, not too heavy.

    Have you heard about Kundalini yoga? The master is Yogi Bhajan. I’ve studied it for 3 months. It’s not like the normal yoga focusing on the position & body extension. It puts lots of elements, such as meditation and mantra. Kundalini brings the different experience than other yogas.

    This is my teacher in True Yoga, Grace’s website, for your reference. http://iloveky.wordpress.com/

    BTW, I’m keeping the 1% action. I had the great time with Sylvie in Aveda (Da-An). She is not only the stylist but also a good friend. Every environment you create is sharing. That’s really nice.

    Have a great weekend & Happy Halloween!

    Luv,

    Carrie

  6. Dear Ping:

    從大雪封山的地方回家,把家和出版社全部都依新生活重整後,躺在書房的紫檀地板–有一種幸福的感覺~

    最近陸續見到好久不見的朋友,唉聲歎氣是共同的語言,很高興看到您依然充滿能量在經營一方美麗的花園…….

    附上舊作,與您分享我很喜歡的一部電影,一首歌~

    心靜

    *沙漠的潮聲

    一向不喜歡沙漠。

    在大自然的元素中最喜歡水，不論是河流、瀑布、湖泊、海洋、雨水、閃電、溫泉、冰山，只要和水有關，就充滿無法言喻的熱愛，至於缺水的沙漠，避之唯恐不及。

    在澳洲紅土沙漠的中心( Red Center )─愛麗斯泉，爬到綠洲小鎮的最高點─安立丘(Anzac Hill)，舉目所望，四周一片紅土，點綴著貧瘠乾枯的矮灌木叢，無論是往北到達爾文，或是往南到阿德雷得，都必須走一千五百公里才能看到海，如果開車時速一百公里，必須連開十五個小時，如果一天走三十公里，必須走將近兩個月，Vicky利用清晨及黃昏騎單車，避開正午將近攝氏五十度的高溫，花了一個多月，到達愛麗斯泉，這段計劃已久的縱貫沙漠之旅，我因為意外缺席了。

    在南十字星的星空下，回想這幾個月的人生際遇，離開阿波羅灣的第三天，接近沙漠的起點，我從單車上摔下來，昏迷不醒，在生與死的邊緣徘徊，接下來的日子，彷彿是電影的快轉帶，搭直昇機回墨爾本、開刀、復健、回台灣、復健、開刀取出鋼釘，因為腦震盪的後遺症，一直昏昏沉沉，在日常生活裡行禮如儀，走路搖搖晃晃，一轉眼就忘了，記憶非常脆弱，真實世界與我隔著一大段距離。

    等待開刀的那段時間，一個人躺在父母家二樓後面一個悶熱的小房間，反覆地聽三張電影原聲帶「碧海藍天」(A BIG BLUE)「巴黎野玫瑰」( BETTY BLUE 37°2)「藍色情挑」( BLEU )，這三部是我最喜歡的藍色電影，後來，專心聽藍色情挑，震撼的音樂深深觸及一些無法解釋的心情。

    當初看電影，很多無言的畫面，深受震撼，卻不了解原因，女主角茱莉(茱麗葉畢諾許飾演)在一場車輛中失去先生及女兒，她自己也身受重傷，當她可以站起來，第一個反應是企圖自殺，失敗以後，她選擇遺忘過去，帶著先生未完成的樂譜，脫離原來的生活，搬到一個新的公寓，不和任何人往來，常常半夜到泳池游泳，掩飾她無法抑止的眼淚。
    有一幕是茱莉把手放在粗糙的牆面上，一路磨擦著牆面向前走，卻一點也不感覺痛，現在才明白，身體的痛苦可以忍受，內心的傷痛難以痊癒。

    兩種主題的配樂交織出現，敘述她出生入死的心理掙扎，從一開始的遺忘和拒絕，終於面對傷痛，寬恕，重新獲得愛與平靜，有了面對生活的勇氣，完成先生最後的樂曲─歐洲共同市場的會歌。

    在她掙扎的過程中，會歌和葬歌反覆出現，愛與死的雙人舞。

    會歌表達歐洲各國從愛出發，希望超越歷史的仇恨，以歐洲最早的希臘語合唱聖經的「愛」，以壯烈的音樂烘托祈禱文的神聖感，然後用一段女聲吟詠，不同在她先生用女低音，寧靜平和，她改成女高音，不斷發出悲劇的吶喊，最後八小節，他先生遺留的部份，她一個音符不改，只是用了很多樂器，來增加戲劇感，一開始是低沉鼓聲，接著人聲詠嘆，配合打擊樂帶進尾聲的高潮，最後響起孤寂的單簧管，寧靜地結束，留下無窮的韻味。

    反覆聽這一段，為什麼愛除了美好，也包含了衝突、傷害、嫉妒、獨佔、背叛那麼多的情緒呢？

    當茱莉想要用遺忘來面對死亡，悲愴嚴肅的葬歌卻一再響起，強迫她回憶過去，她為了保護自己，一再封閉真實的感覺，卻無法拒絕鄰居─一個妓女的真摯友誼，最後，也因為幫助鄰居，開啟了她改變的契機。

    這一段音樂牽涉到生命的扣問，如果人一定要死，到底活著有什麼意義，在繁忙的生活中，不會想起這種哲學問題，當我幾乎失去一切，這卻是無法迴避的課題。

    想起一些臉孔，從小到大曾經交會的人，去世已久的奶奶，永遠長不大的爸爸，堅毅任性的媽媽，疏於往來的親戚，曾經相知的朋友，曾經相愛的情人……也許是因為放不下的個性，總是緊緊抓住美好的回憶，不能接受時空轉換，感情也會改變，一再苛責自己，只因自己沒有好好珍惜，感覺才會變。

    此時此刻，在生命的扣問下，曾經那麼在乎的人，似乎一點也不重要了，第一次從「別人的眼光」跳出來，就像脫下一件重如盔甲的衣服，好輕鬆。

    帶著這種疲憊卻輕鬆的心情，飛向南方大陸的墨爾本，走過大洋路，從南往北穿越沙漠，千里迢迢，再次見到Vicky。

    發現她也改變了，歷經大自然的淬煉，還有認識許多徒手開墾家園的澳洲人，在一個四面都可看到地平線的地方，她看到了自己，自己的脆弱，因為面對脆弱，可以真正地堅強。

    「你復原了嗎？」
    「復原了，你呢？」
    「我也復原了。」

    經過一週以後，道別，她繼續往南騎，我一個人留在愛麗斯泉。

    一般人該去的景點都已去過，沒有時間的壓力，只是閒晃，一件濕淋淋的衣服放在曬衣繩上，一小時就會乾透，沙漠真的不一樣，乾熱的白天，最舒服的就是在青年旅館附設的泳池游泳，沒錯，沙漠的中心可以游泳，而且水還是冰涼的，真不知道他們怎麼辦到的，從無可遁逃的酷熱，潛入藍色的水光中，自由自在地伸展四肢，洗去一路的塵土，這種極致的享受，就像巴黎香榭里大道的噴水池忽然湧出香奈兒香水一樣，非常奢侈的浪漫。

    夜晚，望著一方微微發出幽光的泳池，在沙漠中想起對海洋的迷戀，反而更加清晰。

    輕聲吟唱「藍色空間」，只有自己了解的音樂語言，徘徊不定。

    為什麼一直把海洋當作心靈的故鄉呢？因為不夠社會化，無法適應現實生活嗎？還是在人群中習慣壓抑自己去討好別人，覺得無法呼吸。想要逃到一個永恆的世界。

    為什麼是海洋呢？因為不熟悉可以有很多幻想，還是嚮往豐富的海底世界，如果有天堂，應該是像小美人魚居住的海底王國，那麼，小美人魚又為什麼要忍受失去聲音和雙腳如刀割的痛苦上岸呢？人總是嚮往遠方，追求自己沒有的東西，失敗以後，小美人魚寧願化成泡沫，也不願意傷害所愛的人，當她獲得永生的靈魂後，現在快樂嗎？

    一連串的問題沒有解答，在紅色裡思索藍色的無限、神秘及空靈。

    日復一日，探索沙漠的瑰麗，發現沙漠並不是一無所有，豐富的生命在這裡自由地繁衍，吃了原住民小孩從沙漠摘的野莓 ( Bush Berry)，也吃過澳洲白人醃的野杏( Bush Apricot )，在路邊發現紅袋鼠的乾屍，在愛爾斯岩發現一大群頭上像戴了皇冠的鳥，充滿貴族氣質，比駝鳥還大的鴯苗，笨拙地移動龐大的身驅，發出難聽的叫聲。

    最驚奇的一次經驗是，在曬衣場的牆邊，發現一隻褶鰓蜥。

    第一次看見褶鰓蜥，是在探索地理頻道上，牠的頸部有一層薄膜，看來就像是侏羅紀時代的恐龍，古怪又有趣，頸膜除了可嚇退敵人，並兼有接收聲波、散熱和吸熱的功能，接著，牠站起來，用後腳瘋狂地向前跑，像是默片時代的卓別林，據說，牠可以連跑兩個小時，除了人以外，一般生物很少會做這個動作。

    這麼珍稀的褶鰓蜥，竟然就在眼前，不敢隨便移動腳步，怕驚動了牠。

    在澳洲火紅的太陽下，牠一身斑斕的大地色彩，就像是澳洲原住民的點畫，生動樸拙，在造物者的眼睛裡，是不是所有的生物都是美麗的？即使是沙漠中一隻身長不到一尺的蜥蝪，也值得給牠最特別的色彩，最神奇的生存本能，地球上的風景，不論是沙漠或是海洋，都有豐富的生物在其中生活，為什麼離開水面已經五百萬年的人類，想要回到海底？

    在寂靜的沙漠裡，我聽見一波波的潮聲……

  7. Dear Carrie:

    Reading your email, everyone here is like reading a beautiful mind from an old friend.

    I also just got back from Taitung’s Dulan bay. Unfortunately, I only spent two days there. I vowed to myself that I will be back there whenver I want to get to close to sea and nauture. I used to go to Haulian only. Please share with us more about your Taitung’s retreat and contemplation.

    I am so happy that you googled the huckleberry friend and found out the answer. Thank you for your engagement and the homework. You got yourself an A+ for this homework.

    Actually, I know we are less than six degree of seperation. You will realize that we have a lot of common friends.

    Isn’t this a great feeling that we can share our thoughts and feeling without actually knowing each other. We know we are never lonely, even we seek aloneness sometime.

    I will take care of myself. You too.

    Love,

    Ping

  8. Dear Ping,

    I went to Taitung for 10 days recently.

    What I did there is just like why you went to Hualian, I guess.

    I put myself in the nature, to sense the environment, to see the sunrise up from the cloud and the sunset down to the sea. I breathe the fresh air and the smell of the planets. I step my feet in the sea to feel the flow of the tides, fade-in & fade-out….

    What a great moment to be with myself, the aloneness. I hope you can enjoy it from my short words above.

    As for the question of ” huckleberry friend”, to be honestly, I don’t know what it means in the first beginning. But after googling, I know it.

    This is from the famous book of Mark Twain, ” Hucklyberry Fin”. We all read the book when very young.

    The writer of ” Moon river”, Johnny Mercer, who missed the time & his friend when was in childhood. So I totally understand your story.

    Like you said, songs always remind us some special people, memory or moment in our life. That’s beautiful.

    Everytime when I read your reply and writing, I always feel very warm. Hope I can meet you up someday.

    Actually, you and my friend, Cheryl Chou were going to have a dinner in Sept at Nonzero when you were back from US. But you felt uncomfortable so you stayed at home. Remember it? That’s one of the connection between you and me. As for this, thanks for your treat at Nonzero. I enjoyed the food & time very much there. Thanks.

    That’s one of the connection between us. The second connection is another friend of mine, who is your close friend. (Mr. Lee) What a small world, right?

    I do really like this platform to know your thought about the life. And we can share something even we don’t know about each other in the real world. But for me, you just like an old friend, sincere and truly.

    Thanks for your inspiration, encouragement, positive thinking, and good feeling.

    It’s getting cold. Pls. take care of yourself.

    All the best.

    Carrie, TPE

  9. Dear Piying:

    讀人會 is a wonderful group with top notch members who want to learn together so they can grow together and stay together. I have great admiration to all of you.

    Thank you for your kind words on me. Thank you for giving me opportunity to show off too. I also learned a few things from the talk.

    Yes, please practice the 1% and vote with what you buy, especially when people revert to the scarcity mindset in the economic downturn. As I told you, it is always priority, not affordability. Only when time is tough, we will see the true color of one person.

    Please continue the path to get to know yourself. How you treat money is the good way to start. Are you like everyone else with the same value system or are you for real to have your own value system and principle? Only you will find out who you really are.

    “We vote with what we buy” requires a deep understanding of what you make of. It is not a slogan or a catch words. You are challenging yourself constantly with this activist mindset.

    Thank you for joining the conversation. Welcome to Mr. Chu’s 讀人會. 🙂

    Love,

    Ping

  10. Dear Carrie:

    Yes, Moonriver is a classic love song. I remember the one sang by Andy Williams. Have you actually seen a real moon river when the moon rises from the horizon? It is like a gold and silver river that lead us to the bright full moon. I recently saw this magic golden moonriver at a river bank on Luang Probang in Laos.

    I will devote this song to my secret lover when I was only a teenage. I was too shy to show my affection. I remember this song well when I was in that inconvenient youth.

    Here is the lyrics:
    Moon river, wider than a mile
    I’m crossing you in style some day
    Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker
    Wherever you’re going, I’m going your way

    Two drifters, off to see the world
    There’s such a lot of world to see
    We’re after the same rainbow’s end, waiting ,round the bend
    My Huckleberry Friend, Moon River, and me

    Moon river, wider than a mile
    I’m crossing you in style some day
    Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker
    Wherever you’re going, I’m going your way

    Two drifters, off to see the world
    There’s such a lot of world to see
    We’re after that same rainbow’s end, waiting ,round the bend
    My Huckleberry Friend, Moon River, and me

    Do anyone know what a Huckleberry Friend means?

    Please share with me your answer.

    You see, the song and music can denote a memory so well. This is why I always try to imprint my travel with a CD I listen during the traveling. Everytime, I listen this CD, all the memories are back. It is a great way to have a CD or a song as your magic key to unlock our fun momeries.

    I am so happy for you to have Moonriver with you whenever you need a pick up in your emotional state.

    Love,

    Ping

  11. Dear Willy:

    Here is the lyrics. I have to read the lyrics so I can get into the emotional state. Music and performance is not enough for me. I need the deeper meaning of their song. Thanks for your sharing. I guess this is a live concert that we all want to go. I hope I am not the oldest one in the concert though. They are the most talented indeed.

    Desert Rose
    Why do you live alone
    If you are sad
    I’ll make you leave this life
    Are you white, blue or bloody red
    All I can see is drowning in cold grey sand

    The winds of time
    You knock me to the ground
    I’m dying of thirst
    I wanna run away
    I don’t know how to set me free to live
    My mind cries out feeling pain

    I’ve been roaming to find myself
    How long have I been feeling endless hurt
    Falling down, rain flows into my heart
    In the pain I’m waiting for you
    Can’t go back
    No place to go back to
    Life is lost, Flowers fall
    If it’s all dreams
    Now wake me up
    If it’s all real
    Just kill me

    I’m making the wall inside my heart
    I don’t wanna let my emotions get out
    It scares me to look at the world
    Don’t want to find myself lost in your eyes
    I tried to drown my past in grey
    I never wanna feel more pain
    Ran away from you without saying any words
    What I don’t wanna lose is love

    Through my eyes
    Time goes by like tears
    My emotion’s losing the color of life
    Kill my heart
    Release all my pain
    I’m shouting out loud
    Insanity takes hold over me

    Turning away from the wall
    Nothing I can see
    The scream deep inside
    reflecting another person in my heart
    He calls me from within
    “All existence you see before you
    must be wiped out :
    Dream, Reality, Memories,
    and Yourself”

    I begin to lose control of myself
    My lust is so blind, destroys my mind
    Nobody can stop my turning to madness
    No matter how you try to hold me in your heart
    Why do you wanna raise these walls
    I don’t know the meaning of hatred
    My brain gets blown away hearing words of lies
    I only want to hold your love

    Stab the dolls filled with hate
    Wash yourself with their blood
    Drive into the raging current of time
    Swing your murderous weapon into the belly
    “the earth”
    Shout and start creating confusion
    Shed your blood for pleasure
    And what? For love?
    What am I supposed to do?

    I believe in the madness called “Now”
    Past and future prison my heart
    Time is blind
    But I wanna trace my love
    on the wall of time, over pain in my heart
    Art of life
    Insane blade stabbing dreams
    Try to break all truth now
    But I can’t heal this broken heart in pain
    Cannot start to live, Cannot end my life
    Keep on crying

    Close my eyes
    Time breathes I can hear
    All love and sadness
    melt in my heart

    Dry my tears
    Wipe my bloody face
    I wanna feel me living my life
    outside my walls

    You can’t draw a picture of yesterday, so
    You’re painting your heart with your blood
    You can’t say “No”
    Only turning the wheel of time
    with a rope around your neck
    You build a wall of morality and take a breath
    from between the bricks
    You make up imaginary enemies and are chased by them
    You’re trying to commit suicide
    You’re satisfied with your prologue
    Now you’re painting your first chapter black
    You are putting the scraps of life together
    and trying to make an asylum for yourself
    You’re hitting a bell at the edge of the stage
    and
    You are trying to kill me

    I believe in the madness called “Now”
    Time goes flowing, breaking my heart
    Wanna live
    Can’t let my heart kill myself
    Still I haven’t found what I’m looking for
    Art of life
    I try to stop myself
    But my heart goes to destroy the truth
    Tell me why
    I want the meaning of my life
    Do I try to live, Do I try to love
    in my dream

    I’m breaking the wall inside my heart
    I just wanna let my emotions get out
    Nobody can stop
    I’m running to freedom
    No matter how you try to hold me in your world
    Like a doll carried by the flow of time
    I sacrificed the present moment for the future
    I was in chains of memory half-blinded
    Losing my heart, walking in the sea of dreams

    Close my eyes
    Rose breathes I can hear
    All love and sadness melt in my heart
    Dry my tears
    Wipe my bloody face
    I wanna feel me living my life
    outside my mind

    Dreams can make me mad
    I can’t leave my dream
    I can’t stop myself
    Don’t know what I am
    What lies are truth?
    What truths are lies?

    I believe in the madness called “Now”
    Time goes flowing, breaking my heart
    Wanna live
    Can’t let my heart kill myself
    Still I haven’t found what I’m looking for
    Art of life
    I try to stop myself
    But my heart goes to destroy the truth
    Tell me why
    I want the meaning of my life
    Do I try to live? Do I try to love?

    Art of life
    An Eternal Bleeding heart
    You never wanna breathe your last
    Wanna live
    Can’t let my heart kill myself
    Still I’m feeling for
    A Rose is breathing love
    in my life

  12. Thanks for your recommendations of what to read, I will definitely follow your suggestions and practicie it. I have read Monocle magazine for half an year already,it is really useful for expanding my global view….

    Best regards Darren

  14. 一直想要寫個MAIL謝謝您給讀人會許多啟發，但是我不想只說謝謝，我也想寫一篇很長的文章，所以很抱歉花了點時間，希望您不要介意這個遲來的感謝。以下文章我也PO在我的部落格裡。

    八月三十日那天我主辦讀人會，請到朱平做為主講貴賓，他說了很多都是觀念或他體會的一些人生哲理，老實講有點像長輩在尊尊教誨，以他如此豐富的人生閱歷想要在一個小時或一個半小時告訴我們這麼多事，或說我們要從與他面對面的這點時間，汲取到能夠改變我們的人生或思想的觀念真的很困難，老實講當天的聚會真的很精采，我只是後悔那天沒有勤做筆記，也後悔沒有錄音或錄影做紀錄，又或許是我也沒想到他會說這麼多讓人生能有啟發的觀念，而不是單純的說故事或給予資訊，他到底說了什麼，我真的沒辦法一一說清楚，但有時候能有一兩個想法留在心中也非常值得了。

    那天朱先生說自己是個生意人，他說生意是生生不息的意思，如果企業不賺錢就該關門，如果你們喜歡AVEDA就要去買它的產品，如果支持NONZERO就要到餐廳用餐，他說1%就好，100次的機會你去超市買洗髮精，去吃夜市或吃到飽，其中有一次你到AVEDA買瓶洗髮精，偶爾一次到NONZERO用餐，用行動去支持好的企業好的產品，這幾句話在我心中烙了印。

    其實每次的購物行為都像是一場選舉，從皮包掏錢付款就像是投票，你是基於什麼理由買A不買B？是因為它便宜幾塊錢？還是因為包裝？品牌？廣告？設計感？我從來沒想過要為了支持企業支持產品去花這個錢，這也許以後會變成我選擇商品的標準之一，以最直接實際的行動支持好的商品好的企業。

    回想今年六月，跟老公在NONAERO用餐，當時朱先生跟一群人坐在大桌子邊用餐，他特別走過來跟我們打招呼，想跟我們說抱歉，說他們有一個小小的PARTY，他請優人神鼓的團員吃晚餐，可能比較吵，那時我抓住機會邀請他做讀人會主講貴賓，他也沒有猶豫很快的答應，還送了我優人神鼓的普洱茶，我不好意思拿想回給他，他說他買了很多也喝不了這麼多，現在回想起來，他真的就像他自己所說的，以實際的行動支持優人神鼓，當他不是個生意人而是一個消費者時，他用錢購買優人神鼓的商品，用最實際的行動支持台灣的藝術團體。

  15. “Moon river” is my favorate song.

    When I was down, it consoles my heart and tells me that there’s is always hope when the sun shines tomorrow morning.

    And it also reminds me that there is some wonderful moment in my mind/life. Don’t focus on what we lose but to cherish what we have/ what we own the great time&memory with someone.

    The life is just like the walts. We are going to dance roll and roll, on and on.Dreams help us to make a meaningful life. Make us willing to take the adventure in the journey.

    Any way, I love this beautiful old song from Frank Sinatra.

    http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=nix_YStjhpU

    Wish you have a great Moon Festival.

    Luv,
    Carrie

  16. Well, I’ll be damned
    Here comes your ghost again
    But that’s not unusual
    It’s just that the moon is full
    And you happened to call
    And here I sit
    Hand on the telephone
    Hearing a voice I’d known
    A couple of light years ago
    Heading straight for a fall

    As I remember your eyes
    Were bluer than robin’s eggs
    My poetry was lousy you said
    Where are you calling from?
    A booth in the Midwest
    Ten years ago I bought you some cufflinks
    You brought me something
    We both know what memories can bring
    They bring diamonds and rust

    Well, you burst on the scene, already a legend
    The unwashed phenomenon
    The original vagabond
    You strayed into my arms
    And there you stayed
    Temporarily lost at sea
    The Madonna was yours for free
    Yes, the girl on the half-shell
    Could keep you unharmed

    Now I see you standing with brown leaves falling around
    And snow in your hair
    Now you’re smiling out the window of that crummy hotel
    Over Washington Square
    Our breath comes out white clouds
    Mingles and hangs in the air
    Speaking strictly for me
    We both could have died then and there

    Now you’re telling me you’re not nostalgic
    Then give me another word for it
    You who are so good with words
    And at keeping things vague
    ‘Cause I need some of that vagueness now
    It’s all come back too clearly
    Yes, I loved you dearly
    And if you’re offering me diamonds and rust
    I’ve already paid

    Dear 路上風景:

    Thank you for sharing this. How old are you, if I may ask? Not many people listen the 70’s song.

    I have been a fan of Joan Baez for over 40 years and must say she just keeps improving.

    “We both know what memories can bring
    They bring diamonds and rust ”

    It is so true….

    Ping

  17. I don’t want to work
    I don’t want to eat
    All I want is to forget
    So I smoke!!

    Her voice reminds me of Edit Piaf. I know how you like this song now. It definitely picks up the mood and makes us seeing the light side of the life. Music is such a powerful medium. Thank you for sharing one of your favorite songs. Please continue your sharing so we can find so many simple pleasures.

    Now, you see we are not just connected with the intellectural discusson but also through music.

    Ping

  18. I would like to share with you one of my most favorite songs “Diamonds and rust”—-wodrs and music by Joan Baez
    http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=bpD5_c2j1OM&feature=related
    The song is said to make a memory about herself and Bob Dylan. Maybe their relationship has no happy ending, however what moves me is that “there is always something left in our life like diamond and rust”. Besides, the voice and melody seem come from heaven.

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