再見了,靈魂女王Aretha Franklin

林貓王
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3 min readAug 17, 2018

再見了,靈魂女王Aretha Franklin!

第一次聽到你的歌是在BJ單身日記的〈Respect〉,喜歡跟著「Just a little bit」一起合唱。

喜歡你翻唱什麼,都可以把它們變成自己的歌。尤其是披頭四的〈Eleanor Rigby〉。

最愛你的歌是〈Angel〉,你唱給失去愛的希望的人:「繼續尋找,你要繼續尋找,千萬別擔心,那個人會出現的。」

今晚要播你的歌,給大家繼續愛著。

(Aretha Franklin, 1942–2018, aged 76)

Aretha唱道,需要找一個天使,出現在我的生命中。我不想要只是孤單的一個人,沒有一種悲慘,比現在沒有愛的樣子更悲慘。

最催淚的是末段的和聲,很像在跟失去愛的希望的人們對話:「繼續尋找,你要繼續尋找」,還有「千萬別擔心,那個人會來的」。

為了這段和聲,我願意再聽一遍又一遍。

Gotta find me an angel in my life (He’ll be there now don’t you worry)
My life (Keep lookin and just keep cookin)
My life (He’ll be there, now don’t you worry)

翻唱披頭四的Eleanor Rigby,給所有寂寞的人。

All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?

我只差一步距離,就可以到你懷中
只是這一步,還是太遠的距離

I’m only one step ahead of your arms
One kiss away from your sweet lips

Seems like I’ll have to take that one step backwards
’Cause one step ahead is a step too far away from you

女權與黑人運動的經典代表:R-E-S-P-E-C-T!

R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Find out what it means to me
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Take care, TCB

Oh (sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me)
A little respect (sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me)

喬治麥可已經在天堂等你了

And the river was deep
I didn’t falter
When the mountain was high
I still believed

When the valley was low
It didn’t stop me, no no
I knew you were waiting
Knew you were waiting for me

請給予掌聲(Clap)愛心(♥)
或用任何形式散播這些歌
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