original author: Lizzy
http://wildflower.pixnet.net/blog/post/28563774-both-sides-now
The music I want to talk about today is composed by Joni Mitchell (Joni Mitchell) in her twenties Song: Both Sides Now. If you have watched the movie "Love is you, love is me" (Love Actually), you should remember when Emma Thompson (Emma Thompson) found out that her husband gave a gold necklace to someone on Christmas Day, and took Joanie Michelle’s The music that appeared in the movie when the album was given to her. That song is "Both Sides Now".
This song has three paragraphs, mentioning cloud, love, and life respectively. Although the themes are different, the conclusion is the same: we all thought we had seen something through, but after experiencing it, looking back and thinking again, everything is just an illusion, I actually didn't understand anything.
The first time I heard Both Sides Now was when I was in college, and the version I heard was sung by 26-year-old Joni. At that time, I was deeply shocked by the lyrics, and also surprised that the young Joni was so talented and full of insights at the time. Later, I listened to Joni, who was over 50 years old, re-interpreting the song in 2000. At first hearing it didn't feel much. I just felt that the pace was very slow and the voice was very old. Later, because I watched Love Actually, and listened carefully to this old version again, my heart was hit hard again.
Many people say that the 2000 edition is particularly touching because of something like "After nearly 30 years of hardening, Joanie’s singing voice is even more OOXXOOXX." Of course I don't deny that after so many years, Joni's voice has become more emotional, unlike the tender and arrogant voice in his twenties. However, I think this old version can be so shocking, there are other factors.
When I listened to a young girl sing Both Sides Now and listened to her recite "I have seen love from two sides, from giving and getting, but I think it is just an illusion of love, I actually don't understand love at all", In addition to feeling regret and melancholy, I also held hope for her, because she was still young and there were many opportunities. When she said that she didn’t understand love at all, it sounded like a young girl’s anger when she lost her love for the first time. talk.
However, when I heard Joni, who was in her 50s, re-sing this song, I seemed to hear her "confirming" her prediction 30 years ago. Those regrets and melancholy are no longer because of anger, but because they are facts.
Give an example in a simpler way. Emma Thompson in the movie Love Actually, if she is just a young woman who just found her boyfriend cheating, listening to Both Sides Now, the audience will want to comfort her and say that it’s okay, the next man will be better; but Emma Thompson in the play is already She has been married with her husband for many years and has two children. All her beliefs and responsibilities are based on this family. If all this is a lie and an illusion, she will have nothing, and her efforts over the years have been in vain. Like a fool. So later she held back tears and told her husband that she knew about the golden necklace. After her husband regretted saying that she was a "classic fool", she said, "Yes – but you've also made a fool out of me – you've made the life I lead foolish too." At this time, listening to Both Sides Now, she felt even more painful. Thinking of the stories and memories of this life, she endured tears and sighed in her heart: "I really don't understand love at all."
Who is wrong? I want to help her blame someone, but the most helpless thing in life is that many things are right or wrong, it just happened.
Here are the lyrics of Both Sides Now and my poor translation.
Both Sides Now
Rows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air
like angel hair, like a pile of ice cream castles in the air with
And feather canyons everywhere, i've looked at cloud that way.
There are feather-like canyon …I used to look at clouds that way.
But now they only block the sun, they rain and snow on everyone.
But now I see only dark clouds covered the sun, the rain and snow down,
(So) MANY Things Would i have have GOT DONE But Clouds in My Way.
I am so old Many dreams can be realized, but clouds are blocking the way.
I've looked at clouds from both sides now,
I've seen both sides of the clouds,
the From up and Down, and Still somehow
from from bottom, but
It's cloud illusions i recall.
I think it's just a cloud of Mirage,
the I for Really Don ' t know clouds at all.
I actually don't understand clouds at all .
Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels, the dizzy dancing way you feel
like the moon, like June like a Ferris wheel, like a dizzy feeling after the dance,
As every fairy tale comes real; i've looked at love that way
.
But now it's just another show. You leave 'em laughing when you go
, but now it's just a show, you step down a bow in their laughter.
And if you care, don't let them know, don't give yourself away
.
I've looked at love from both sides now,
I have seen love from both sides ,
From give and take, and still somehow
from giving and getting, but
It's love's illusions i recall.
I think that is just an illusion of love,
I really don' t know love at all.
I actually don't know love at all .
Tears and fears and feeling proud to say "i love you" right out loud,
with tears and fear, proudly say "I love you"
Dreams and schemes and circus crowds, i've looked at life that way.
But now old friends are acting strange, they shake their heads, they say I've changed
.
Something's lost but something's gained in living every day
.
I've looked at life from both sides now,
I've seen both sides of life,
the From win and lose, and Still somehow
from victory and defeat, but
It's life's illusions i recall.
I think this is just an illusion of life,
the I for Really Don ' t know life at all.
I actually don't know life at all .
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