想起某一年,Jeffy送我這首歌當生日歌。我知道他的用意,自此,我愛上了這歌,也慢慢愛上了Bob Dylan。
今天上完吳叡人老師的課後,在重重車陣裡又聽到這歌。想起這些年繞了一大圈,竟在那些個日子裡讀過的書裡,找到線索。那是個我好憤怒的時候,滿滿的情緒像是炸裂開來一樣毫不避諱。重新打開那些書本,氣味帶我回到過去,卻又靈現出自己當初忽略的。很多東西竟然懂了。
Jeffy說,這首歌是一個人對過去的檢視,有點像是道別。但,重新打開過去,並非索然無味的泡泡糖。很多東西的累積,原來是慢慢才知道。
My Back Pages
by Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan’s 30th anniversary concert celebration, 1992
(Roger McGuinn)
Crimson flames tied through my ears
Rollin’ high and mighty traps
Pounced with fire on flaming roads
Using ideas as my maps
"We’ll meet on edges, soon," said I
Proud ‘neath heated brow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I’m younger than that now.
(Tom Petty)
Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth
"Rip down all hate," I screamed
Lies that life is black and white
Spoke from my skull. I dreamed
Romantic facts of musketeers
Foundationed deep, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I’m younger than that now.
(Neil Young)
Girls’ faces formed the forward path
From phony jealousy
To memorizing politics
Of ancient history
Flung down by corpse evangelists
Unthought of, though, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I’m younger than that now.
(Eric Clapton)
A self-ordained professor’s tongue
Too serious to fool
Spouted out that liberty
Is just equality in school
"Equality," I spoke the word
As if a wedding vow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I’m younger than that now.
(Bob Dylan)
In a soldier’s stance, I aimed my hand
At the mongrel dogs who teach
Fearing not that I’d become my enemy
In the instant that I preach
My existance led by confusion boats
Mutiny from stern to bow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I’m younger than that now.
(George Harrison)
Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats
Too noble to neglect
Deceived me into thinking
I had something to protect
Good and bad, I define these terms
Quite clear, no doubt, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I’m younger than that now.






真的很巧,晚上睡不著(我大概失眠半年了,再繼續半年可能就要掛了= =)突然想到你的網站逛,就看到這篇文章。
好~~~久不見了:D
To Jeffy:
我真的沒想到你會過來看。你怎麼失眠的老毛病一直跟著你阿,這樣真的很難受耶,有沒有考慮看看中醫調養一下阿。
的確好久不見,你快點畢業拉!
畢業了啦@@
拿到畢業證書那課超感動的,「幹,我終於能離開東吳了」是我從註冊組那拿到證書時的OS。
To Jeffy:
那那那,那你現在在幹嘛?有空找我阿~我二三四下午有課,週五早上和老師meeting。其實很常到台北的。只是你這個沒手機人,我很難找你阿:p