这个星期Netflix新推出一批电影,我一下选中一部美国爱情老片《River of no return》。剧情很老套,但我被里面两样东西深深吸引,第一个映入眼帘的是电影海报,我一眼认出来瑪麗蓮夢露,想想还没看过这位50年代的性感女神的电影,没想到竟然还寻到了另一个宝:由玛丽莲·梦露亲自演唱的主题歌曲 RIVER OF NO RETURN。我不讳言,我是个音乐盲,但能听出好歌坏歌。
圣诞节快到了,收音机里循环播放那些经典的圣诞老歌,为往返上下班路途增添了不少乐趣。而这首余音绕梁的怀念金曲 RIVER OF NO RETURN 更是让我想到中国的经典诗句“落花有意,流水无情“,一首英文歌为中国诗词做了另一番解读。
以下就是这首经典歌的歌词:
There is a river
Called the River of no return
Sometimes it's peaceful
And sometimes wild and free
Love is a traveler
On the River of no return
Swept on forever
To be lost in the stormy sea
Wailaree
I can hear the river call
No return no return
Where the roaring waters fall
Wailaree
I can hear my lover call come to me
No return no return
I lost my love on the river
And forever my heart will yearn
Gone gone forever
Down the River of no return
Wailaree Wailaree
He'll never return to me
No return no return