Ordinary World

    歌曲介绍：成军于英国伯明翰的Duran Duran，是80年代红遍大西洋两岸的超级乐团。团名取自Roger Vadim畅销科幻小说『Barbarella』的他们，不仅以融合后庞克与迪斯科的流行乐风叱咤乐坛，其媲美模特儿的俊俏外貌与风格化的音乐录影带，更令他们成为大量曝光的媒体宠儿，并以当时乐坛的头号偶像之姿，稳居新浪漫乐派掌门人的宝座。在沉寂多年后，他们又于93年以备受好评的第二张同名专辑『Duran Duran』同步登上英美排行的前10名，单曲如《Ordinary World》、《Come Undone》等更是再度跻身Top 10，证明Duran Duran的音乐魅力丝毫不因时间而褪色。

    Came in from a rainy Thursday
    on the avenue
    thought I heard you talking softly

    I turned on the lights, the TV
    and the radio
    still I can't escape the ghost of you

    What has happened to it all?
    Crazy, some'd say
    Where is the life that I recognize?
    gone away

    [chorus]:

    But I won't cry for yesterday
    there's an ordinary world
    Somehow I have to find
    and as I try to make my way
    to the ordinary world
    I will learn to survive

    [verse2]:

    Passion or coincidence
    once prompted you to say
    "Pride will tear us both apart"
    Well now pride's gone out the window
    cross the rooftops
    run away
    left me in the vacuum of my heart

    What is happening to me?
    Crazy, some'd say
    Where is my friend when I need you most?
    Gone away

    [chorus]:

    And I don't cry for yesterday
    there's an ordinary world
    Somehow I have to find
    and as I try to make my way
    to the ordinary world
    I will learn to survive

    [verse3]:

    Papers in the roadside
    tell of suffering and greed
    here today, forgot tomorrow
    ooh, here besides the news
    of holy war and holy need
    ours is just a little sorrowed talk

    [chorus]:

    And I don't cry for yesterday
    there's an ordinary world
    Somehow I have to find
    and as I try to make my way
    to the ordinary world
    I will learn to survive

    every one
    is my world, I will learn to survive
    any one
    is my world, I will learn to survive
    any one
    is my world
    every one
    is my world

    备注："Passion or coincidenceonce prompted you to say"Pride will tear us both apart"意思是“你一时激动曾脱口而出：“自尊只会让我们彼此分手”。

    “besides the news of holy war and holy need ours is just a little sorrowed talk"意思是”比起在新闻里为了信仰和生活而战的人们，我们的故事只不过是一段不值得一提的伤心往事。“

    “And I don't cry for yesterdaythere's an ordinary worldSomehow I have to findand as I try to make my wayto the ordinary worldI will learn to survive”意思是“但我不会为昨天哭泣，那只不过是一个平凡的世界；然而我依然要去追寻，当我在这个平凡的世界中开始踏上属于自己的道路，我将学会如何生存，（即使面对受难或者是充满偶然的命运”。这段话正是这首歌的题眼所在。

    这是一首励志的老歌。每次听到这首歌，总会让我联想万千：路遥《平凡的世界》里的物是人非，让我辛酸不已，可人生的真缔也就在于这平凡的世界中。平凡的世界里藏的到底是什么呢？想起了英国诗人William Blake的诗《A Grain of Sand》：“To see a world in a grain of sand,And a heaven in a wild fllower,Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,And eternity in an hour.”翻译成中文，就是大家耳熟能详的：“一沙一世界，一花一天堂。双手握无限，刹那是永恒。”我想这就是世界吧？它藏在细若尘微的沙砾中，躲在千娇百媚里，隐到世人的不甘中，潜在白驹过隙间。

    Duran Duran低吟浅唱之下其实也有着和常人一样的无奈，可只要我们勇敢的面对这平凡的世界，生命不息，行走不止，相信阳光总在风雨后。想起了《沧海一声笑》，或许只要这冲天豪气，世事沧桑，尽在拈花一笑中……