Suzanne Vega - Fifty-fifty Chance

[days of open hand,A&M,1990]

<img src="http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc300/c369/c369939l27q.jpg" style="float:left">这是我唯一一张suzanne vega的专集，很少很少听。上次朋友给录的一张杂辑（就是他喜欢的歌杂七杂八的录起来）里有这首歌，我听着耳熟，想了好久才想起来原来我自己也有的。有意思的是问了几个非vega迷竟然都一口说这首"fifty-fifty chance"了不得。如何了不得？弦乐了不得。对我们这些外行来说，这就是煸情的代名词。但是这种煸情是自愿上钩的，不是强加的。其实vega的歌基本都是“平淡”的，这首也不例外，但是有了这些弦乐（好像是四重奏），竟然顿时熠熠生辉起来。其实有了这些弦乐这歌就很不“民谣”了，倒是很欧陆艺术电影的味道。——这样说不太准确，这基本是首很抑郁的歌，歌词写的是一个堕胎的女子的故事,"fifty-fifty chance（机会各半）"就指的是一个生命继续或被终止的可能。总之，这是一首直指人心的歌，你有百分之九十九的可能被触动。
顺便提一提，猜得到弦乐的arranger是谁否？竟然是Philip Glass。
by dachy

50-50 Chance
The doctor said
In the cardiac room
As she's lying in bed

There's a pan on the floor
Filled with something black
I need to know
I'm afraid to ask

I hug you
I hum to you
I've come to you
I touch you

I tell you
I love you
I sing to you
Bring to you
Anything

Her little heart
It beats so fast
Her body trembles
With the effort to last

I hug you
I hum to you
I've come to you
I touch you

I tell you
I love you
I sing to you
Bring to you
Anything

She's going home
Tomorrow at ten
The question is
Will she try it again?

55......i never be your maggie may

I'll never be your Maggie May
the one you loved and left behind
the face you see in light of day
and then you cast away
that isn't me in that bed you'll find

I'd rather take myself away
be like those ladies in Japan
rather paint myself a face
conjure up some grace
or be the eyes behind a fan

And so you go
no girl could say no
to you

There's the way we may appear
but that will change from day to night
would you ever see within?
underneath the skin?
could I believe you had that sight?

And so you go
no girl could say no
to you

I'll never be your Maggie May
the one you loved and then forgot
I'll love you first and let you go
because it must be so
and you'll forgive or you will not

And so a woman leaves a man
and so a world turns on it's end
so I'll see your face in dreams
where nothing's what it seems
you still appear some kind of friend

And so you go
no girl could say no
to you

听她的第一首歌是Tom's Dinner