【Tamas Wells】Valder Fields

Valder Fields by Tamas Wells

幾個月前，在我為旅行做準備的時候，偶遇了這首歌，Tamas Wells的'Valder Fields'。
雖然它的旋律確實溫柔動聽，但真正kill我的是它背後的意義。
眾人對這首歌的歌詞各執歧見，最後作者在他的部落格裡表達了這首歌的真正意義。

Thursday, December 06, 2007

Valder Fields Lyrics

Thanks to everyone who has sent messages etc for your interest in the song Valder Fields and its lyrics. I received a friend request last week from someone whose profile was called "Valder Fields"- so I felt obliged to offer some explanation of the song....

Please feel free to add any thoughts, comments or questions and I will do my best to answer whatever questions you pose about the song (or other songs).

As a quick disclaimer, with all lyric writing there is a conscious level and a subconscious level. I don't say that in a pretentious way but simply to say that when you write a melody, the things that you sing are often complete nonsense. But.... sometimes in between the nonsense and stream of consciousness there is something that is you desperately want to express. So in a song like Valder Fields there is a stitching together of some of these moments within a broader stream of potential nonsense.

Some people would disagree and say that good song writing is about clear narrative or analogy but I prefer to stick to a method that is based in a degree of chaos. So for that reason I am not going to proceed to surgically dissect every word in the song and explain how it fits into some jigsaw puzzle esque coherent whole, but rather give you some ideas about what the song may be about.
  

So.... after that long preface and disclaimer, the song Valder Fields is about the tension between our life of responsibility and the life of chaos.

There are many times that I feel like lying down and falling asleep on the warm concrete next to a fountain in the city square but I dont do that because I am late for a job interview or worrying about getting back to work in a department store (btw I dont actually work in a department store but i do know many fine people who do !) .

On the other side there are some people do live that life of complete abandon and irresponsibility but unfortunately they often find themselves locked up in psych wards after they get found lying asleep outside someones door in a bizarre gown or start crying uncontrollably when they say that they love their life.

So many of us end up living a life partway between responsibility and the chaos of complete abandon. I read a book by a Dutch economist who said that the "modern" man (or woman) is beset by the twin thrusts of modernity: one toward "progress" and a desperate striving for success (as we see in the way our global markets are structured with an absolute need for growth) and the other toward an ideal of individual freedom where we have the liberty to choose not to succeed or "progress".

So as I said people end up with a life partway between these.....Perhaps I am straying off the topic a little but hopefully that gives you a little more background to the song- or perhaps if you are reading this blog you may be more confused.

anyway I look forward to hearing your thoughts

--Tamas Wells

作者的話，發人省思。
我不知道原來有人對於人思想的分裂有研究。
大多數的人都活在這樣的困境裡---在責任（社會的、家庭的）與個人的自由之間掙扎。
大多數人都在努力的履行責任，為能達標而奮鬥。

累了的時候，渴望回歸自由。

雖然分裂的時候感覺痛苦，但讀了這篇卻覺得舒服了，因為感覺被了解。
我也想躺在泉水旁躺個天荒地老。
不用再趕時間（雖然我常常也沒在趕）。
。。。。




p.s.在youtube搜尋著這首歌時，竟發現這首歌被大量的和電影‘Bridge to Terabithia’連結，但搜尋電影的原聲帶，卻發現其實兩者沒有關聯，這不是電影的歌曲。但是意境真的很相符。