原本完全没留意到这首"To Venus and Back"的收尾曲， 等到留意的时候，已经是在看没有声音的这首歌的MV时了。说是唱给她那个在流产中逝去的骨肉(她到底要“伤口”到什么时候？！)，但MV里她却像个躲在金鱼缸里的救世主，在美利坚的大街上，见证诸种纷扰世事，并独自缪斯着。说起来在"Boys For Pele"里火山烈女一般的她固然剧力万钧，但到头来我却发现自己更是喜欢她这种独舐自伤的、“纷纷的岁月已过去，瓜子仁一粒粒咽了下去，滋味各人自己知道，留给大家看的惟有那狼藉的黑白的瓜子壳”般的细水长流。小资？也许吧，但我想如果这首歌响在安妮宝贝作品改编的电影（假想的）里某对紧拥在冷风号啸的街头电话亭里的多舛情人怀里的话，——上帝亚，可以吗，可能吗？徒然搞笑。
她唱的是女儿，我们却听出一个面孔模糊的情人。
These tears I've cried
我泣
I've cried 1000 oceans
泪淹一千片洋
And if it seems
好像自身
I'm floating in the darkness
孑孑漂于暗夜
Well, I can't believe that I would keep
这竟是真的——
Keep you from flying
我不能再牵回你翅膀
And I would cry 1000 more
我愿再泣一千洋
If that's what it takes
倘若这能
To sail you home
引你归家
Sail you home
引你归家……
Sail you home
I'm aware what the rules are
不是不明瞭羁绊
But you know that I will run
但我仍要疾跑
You know that I will follow you
永远跟住你
Over silbury hill
无论翻过希伯利山
Through the solar field
无论穿越烈阳之地
You know that I will follow you
永远 跟住你
And if I find you
若果终觅到你
Will you still remeber
你是否会记起
Playing at trains
??????
Or does this litte blue ball
??????‮
Just fade away
Over silbury hill
无论翻过希伯利山
Through the solar field
无论穿越烈阳之地
You know that I will follow you
永远 跟住你
I'm aware what the rules are
不是不明瞭羁绊
But you know that I will run
但我仍要疾跑
You know that I will follow you
永远跟住你
These tears I've cried
我泣
I've cried 1000 oceans
泪淹一千片洋
And if it seems
好像自身
I'm floating in the darkness
孑孑漂于暗夜
Well, I can't believe that I would keep
这竟是真的——
Keep you from flying
我不能再牵回你翅膀
And I would cry 1000 more
我愿再泣一千洋
If that's what it takes
倘若这能
To sail you home
引你归家
Sail you home
Sail you home
Sail
Sail you home
引你归家……
"Some months ago, as I was working on my new double album in Bude in Cornwall, I had a really important dream. A voice appeared in my head. I call her my dark angel. She was a soulsister, who sang in my head. She was humming a melody to me. It was about half past five or six o'clock in the morning. I got out of bed and went over to the studio. In the country, the people there leave everything unlocked. So the studio was open. I went in and recorded the melody. From this melody the song A Thousand Oceans developed. I worked very long on it until it was finished.
Sometimes it takes an incredible amount of time for me to understand a song I have recorded. Because I am so much in it and I can't distance myself from it. Sometimes I don't really understand my songs until I go on tour and live with them. They are like girls for me that keep me accompanied. But sometimes I only understand my songs through the reactions of other people. This was the case with A Thousand Oceans. Mark had just lost his father. The two were very close, because Mark was an only-son. Before the death of my father-in-law they talked on the phone everyday. His father fooled us into believing he was getting better. He had cancer and one day he was just dead. It was a shock for Mark, because he had really believed it got better. They had already made plans for his father to come to visit us in the USA. He had never been there. After the old man had died my relationship with Mark got very difficult. He was inconsolable. You can't do much for somebody who has lost the most important person in his life. I often held him in my arms and took long walks with him. I was just there for him a lot. But I never really got through to him. I still have my mother and my father so I didn't have the experience. I only reached him with A Thousand Oceans.
After Mark heard the song, he always came to me, sat down next to the piano and said: "Please, play that song again." And I played it to him. Through that we got in contact once again. I took him back from that other galaxy he was in a million miles away from me. So that dream was very special to me. It renewed the connection between Mark and me."
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