让我们如此享受的慢性毒药

一切伟大的著作都有令人生厌的章节,一切伟人的生活都有无聊乏味的时候。——罗素《幸福之路》

AMUSED TO DEATH
曲名:Watching TV
艺人:Roger Waters
专辑:AMUSED TO DEATH
年代:1999
风格:迷幻摇滚
介绍:与咱们中国有关的一首歌,不忍细细研究的歌词,我朝威武。李志和老罗也推荐过这首歌。Roger Waters是Pink Floyd最重要的创作主脑。因为Roger Waters的个人偏向,乐队在70年代制作出了摇滚乐史上非常重要的的两张专辑:《The Dark Side of The Moon》(《月之暗面》)和《The Wall》(墙)一套两张的概念唱片《墙》,在舍弃了电子乐成分后,用自传体三部曲的形式,完成了艺术摇滚的现世史诗。从某个角度而言,Roger Waters当然已经不是一个单纯的摇滚乐手,它将摇滚乐队Pink Floyd演变成了心理医生奥尔波特-弗洛伊德(Allport Floyd),用犀利的意象讽喻现存生活环境中的种种困难,且将笔调指向了难以言说的精神层面。
Roger Waters离开Pink Floyd 20多年后陆续发表了近10张个人作品。这首《Watching TV》选自其个人专辑《AMUSED TO DEATH》,《AMUSED TO DEATH》与 Roger Waters 在 Pink Floyd 时期创作的《THE WALL》和《THE FINAL CUT》一起可通称为“迷墙三部曲”,专辑保持了《墙》式的音乐路线和概念唱片形式,在整部唱片里贯穿着其固有的反战意识,同时强烈批判了现世的混沌和污浊,但就其思想深度和境界而言远比《墙》强。


展开歌词


《Watching TV》歌词:
We were watching TV
Watching TV
We were watching TV
Watching TV
In Tiananmen Square
Lost my baby there
My yellow rose
In her bloodstained clothes
She was a short order pastry chef
In a Dim Sum dive on the Yangtze tideway
She had shiny hair
She was the daughter of an engineer
Won't you shed a tear
For my yellow rose
My yellow rose
In her bloodstained clothes
She had perfect breasts
She had high hopes
She had almond eyes
She had yellow thighs
She was a student of philosophy
Won't you grieve with me
For my yellow rose
Shed a tear
For her bloodstained clothes
She had shiny hair
She had perfect breasts
She had high hopes
She had almond eyes
She had yellow thighs
She was the daughter of an engineer
So get out your pistols
Get out your stones
Get out your knives
Cut them to the bone
They are the lackeys of the grocer's machine
They built the dark satanic mills
That manufacture hell on earth
They bought the front row seats on Calvary
They are irrelevant to me
And I grieve for my sister
We were watching TV
Watching TV
We were watching TV
Watching TV
She wore a white bandanna that said
Freedom now
She thought the Great Wall of China
Would come tumbling down
She was a student
Her father was an engineer
Won't you shed a tear
For my yellow rose
My yellow rose
In her bloodstained clothes
Her grandpa fought old Chiang Kai-shek
That no-good, low-down dirty rat
Who used to order his troops
To fire on the women and children
Imagine that; imagine that
And in the spring of '48
Mao Tse-tung got quite irate
And he kicked that old dictator Chiang
Out of the state of China
Chiang Kai-shek came down in Formosa
And they armed the island of Quemoy
And the shells were flying across the China Sea
And they turned Formosa into a shoe factory
Called Taiwan
And she is different from Cro-Magnon man
She's different from Anne Boleyn
She is different from the Rosenbergs
And from the unknown Jew
She's different from the unknown Nicaraguan
Half superstar, half victim
She's a victor star, conceptually new
And she is different from the Dodo
And from the Kankanbono
She's different from the Aztec
And from the Cherokee
She's everybody's sister
She's symbolic of our failure
She's the one in fifty million
Who can help us to be free
Because she died on TV
And I grieve for my sister

watching_TV_by_janaschi
题图:Watching TV by janaschi

【文】让我们如此享受的慢性毒药

大学一毕业,我就到南京找男朋友云了。云的表舅在南京有家公司,他毕业后一直在那里工作,每个月拿1000出头的工资打发日子。我自己找了家小小的文化公司打工,每月1000元的微薄收入,也算高高兴兴上班了。

从此。我和云开始了看似快乐的生活。每天下班后便相拥在租来的小屋里看电视 。从下午6点的新闻一直到晚上十点的黄金剧场再到深夜的午夜剧场。每天持续6~7个小时躺在廉价的充气塑胶沙发上,随着荧屏嬉笑哀乐,全身心地感受着荧屏上他人人生的丰富多采。周末的时候就牵手去逛大卖场,柃回20、30元一件的衣服或者其他的便宜的物品。虽然关掉电视的瞬间也感到空虚,眼见别人买房买车也会一时失落,遭到权贵人士的冷眼也会一时激动感伤,可我们终究是似乎要满足于现状平庸度此生了。

日子无声地流逝了两年。

那天晚上,正当我们深深沉醉于电视剧离奇曲折的情节的时候,那台来自于跳蚤市场的17英寸老式彩电忽然“哧”地喘息一声,然后一圈白光挣扎着晃了晃便寿终正寝了。

我和云四目相觑,屋里难得的沉寂。我突然觉得虚飘飘空落落的,对面的老式三门柜镜中是两张麻木呆滞的面孔。我逃避似的拿起一本旧杂志翻看起来。那天晚上,我读了两篇小说,两篇散文。云则总结了我们两年来的存款:168.6元。

第二天下班后,我读了卡夫卡的两个短篇和张爱玲的三篇散文,写了500字的读书笔记;云看了两份报纸后和我说:从这个月起,我们开始存一个人的工资到银行吧。第五天晚上,我写了一篇小说投稿到晚报,云去图书馆听了一个关于市场营销的讲座。第六天是周末,我们去了图书馆和书城,办了两张卡,买了几本经济和文学方面的书。第七天是周日,我在家看书、写稿;而云则在精读《做一个成功的业务员》。

两个月后,我们的存折上有了3000元,我们没有去买电视,而是买了一辆电动自行车。

接下来,我报考了英语补习班;云找了一份业务员的兼职工作。我在报纸上发表了20多篇文章,云跑成了第一笔业务,拿到了1600元的提成。一年以后,我发表了文章100多篇,跳槽到了议价规模不小的广告公司做了杂志编辑和策划,工资是原先的三倍,云又跑成了6笔业务。两年以后,我做了杂志社的主编,有多家报刊约我写稿;云注册了一家广告公司并开始良好的运转。

今天上午,我们拿到了位于城中理想地带的新房钥匙,下午,我开始构思一个长篇,云计划年底把公司的注册资金从50万元升为500万元。

今天,恰好是我毕业第四年的最后一天。我们的这四年,被分成截然不同的两个两年。转变似乎是因为那台电视机的彻底罢工,可我明白,真正的质变是因为我们的醒悟。

生活中有了太多的暂时诱惑,也许是没完没了的电视剧,也许是刺激过瘾的电脑游戏,又或者是输赢无常的麻将……它们一点点侵蚀我们的时间,以看上去如此享受的方式。 它们让蓬勃朝气的生命一点点走向颓废,如同慢性毒药,渗透麻痹我们的思想。这就需要我们有足够的免疫力来抵抗,而强大抵抗力的获得,来源于清醒的头脑绘制出的美好人生蓝图,并为之扎实而进,从而演绎出充实多彩的生活。

暗藏毒素的诱惑无处不在,请记得随时强化自己的免疫力。

文/王月冰

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