宣可音樂管道

網友Kanlen在網誌中提到老樂團Balance，對他的印象是1981年的Breaking Away。宣可的印象則是在大學時從學妹那裡拿到一卷錄音帶上有首 Fallin in love（不是Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds唱的那首） ，隨著時間錄音帶不見了，宣可在前幾年開始在網路上找尋舊歌，終於在去年發現到原來是Balance的歌。

而Balance的歌我熟悉的是另一首 American Dream。在年輕時從自學木吉他到開始摸索電吉他的階段，對於用木吉他交錯電吉他伴奏，所謂的「抒情搖滾」特別鍾愛，這首American Dream也是這樣的歌曲，也難怪後來 Balance 沒紅，音樂訴說這麼強的自省與批判性，對廣大美國人來說應該不討好的。

在今天牛肉要進口臺灣引起我們軒然大波、華爾街貪婪的肥貓啟動世界金融海嘯，以及世界暖化危機湧現時卻不太可能在哥本哈根修正東京議定書所犯的蠻橫錯誤的美國，是否應該聽聽很久以前有良心的人民，早已經在你們內部對自己國家的呼籲？

 

AMERICAN DREAMBy Bob Kulick, Peppy Castro, Doug Katsaros and Barry Levine

It was so long ago you came into the world

To find a home to settle down and live your life

So many years have past

You struggled through it all

And sacrificed everything you had

 

Well, all the promises have fallen by our side,

The world has changed

And now we’re srtipped of all our pride,

There’s thunder in the eyes

For all who know of pain and loss

Of faith I hear the anguish in their cries

 

American dream

You’re not what you seem

American dream

You live in the past

 

Well, this was paradise

Enough to go around for all who came

Freedom found no other place

Well. don’t you think it’s right

For us to find a way to save ourselves

And maybe save the human race

 

Chorus

 

All the lonely people lost in the fight

Too many wrongs trying to be right

American dream

It was so long ago you came into the world

To find a home to settle down and live your life

So many years have past

You struggled through it all

And sacrificed everything you had