I Must Leave London
Piano Magic
Disaffected
2005

我得離開倫敦
神奇鋼琴
不服
2005年


I must leave London
It is bad for my soul
It’s making a hole
that will erode me
I cannot subscribe
I cannot tow the line
And Robert Elms
you’re selectively blind

She shall not miss me
and I care not
Cos she’s doing me in
and she’s wearing me thin
She shall not miss me
and I care not
Cos she’s doing me in
and she’s wearing me thin

I must leave London
It is bad for my soul
It’s burning a hole
that will erode me
I cannot subscribe
I cannot tow the line
And Robert Elms
you’re selectively blind

A last goodbye
to the Boundary Estate
you stole my heart
in Summer rain
A last goodbye
to the Boundary Estate
you stole my nerve
but never again

I must leave London
It is bad for my soul
It’s burning a hole
that will erode me
I cannot subscribe
I cannot tow the line
And Robert Elms
you’re selectively blind

She shall not miss me
and I care not
Cos she’s doing me in
and she’s wearing me thin
Where the Queen makes way
for the Burger King
Goodbye to the stench
Goodbye to the din


今年過年比較晚
我把所有假都囤積在一月
幾乎放了一個月
讓自己靜靜沉澱
我們需要太多的敏銳
一年總要有點時間讓觸角重新直立

聽說房東要請辭
她不想繼續待在倫敦了
倫敦是個髒亂擁擠的都市
陰雨昏晦憂鬱感傷的天氣真令人窒息
我前幾年去愛丁堡參加研討會
趁著空閒到倫敦晃晃
察覺空氣中有種霉味
倫敦很臭
不知是否空氣中真的瀰漫硫化物
亦或環境因素影響嗅覺認知

Piano Magic
就是在這樣的氛圍成立於1996夏天的倫敦
「旋轉門」式的選擇團員創作專輯
使樂團風格創新多變
”Piano Magic‚s trajectory has never been textbook.”
神奇鋼琴的官網這樣寫著
2005
十年
他們迎接頭上長樹枝的第六位團員Cedric Pin

I Must Leave London
簡單的人聲
輕撥吉他和弦
默默用遙遠的提琴作底襯
組合成一首飽和憂傷的民謠
我心血來潮想把這首曲子燒送給房東
也算拜個早年
不過
這其實是非常不合時宜的伴手禮


I must leave London
It is bad for my soul
It’s making a hole
that will erode me
......
Goodbye to the stench
Goodbye to the din