Rupert

【Daughtry--Waiting for Superman】

        Daughtry主唱的嗓音有種無法形容的磁性，不論是抒情歌唱或是盡情嘶時，都不失他的個人風格。而這首歌既有抒情也有高亢，更像是在夢裡、在現實中，期待著那個人拯救自己。歌詞中有許多的比喻和用詞讓人莞爾，像是：超人或許晚一點到，還被困在洗衣店洗他的披風；或是他還在某間小商店裡賺錢度日，但仍是期待著那個人一定會到來。

        仔細想想，我們這輩子是不是都在等著一個人，能夠在失落的時候接住自己，在傷心的時候陪在你身邊安慰著你，那個人是不是你夢寐以求的英雄超人呢？

She's talking to angels

【The Cascades--Rhythm of the rain】

        每當下雨的時候，我總是會想起這首歌，因為這首歌最一開始的打雷聲，跟下雨的氣氛搭配得很完美，若是將下雨的節奏比喻成歌，雷聲就像是當頭棒喝的重拍，搭配清脆響亮的鈴響，讓人更想要聆聽。

        下雨的天氣，時常跟失戀時的淚水相應和，像是老天也替你流淚的感覺，但說來奇怪，明明是個失戀的歌曲，卻有著輕快的節奏和感覺，歌詞後面也訴說著期許女孩能夠找到她心愛的人。當真正愛著一個人時，最希望的是她也能獲得幸福，不論那個給她幸福的人是不是自己。

Listen to the rhythm of the falling rain

Telling me just what a fool I've been

【Linkin Park--Numb】

        我可以毫不猶豫地說，國高中壓迫的讀書生涯，是聯合公園的歌曲讓我有發洩情緒的管道，當我與歌曲中的歌詞有所共鳴時，會讓我覺得有被同理的感受。Linkin Park的歌曲眾多，共有七塊專輯，甚至有些歌曲是變形金剛的主題曲，因此被更多人熟知，而所有歌曲中，最膾炙人口的應該就是這首Numb。

        我對Numb這首相當有感觸的原因，除了是最初認識的入坑曲之外，歌詞也相當切合自己當時的心態，像是：厭倦了努力成為你們要我成為的人，對我期待的過多反而窒息了我，甚至我做的任何事情在你們眼中都是錯誤的，所以我選擇麻木自己，不想再接受任何事物。

        然而最後一句韻味很深刻，像是知道自己這些只是情緒，我總有一天會獲得救贖，但我知道，你也是過來人，你也是在如此的折磨和壓力下活著的人，那為何不放下一切，讓我們都獲得解脫呢？

【Boyzone--All that I Need】

        BoyZone是1990年代著名的男子樂團，甚至這首歌是我的出生年1998年發行的歌曲，然而對我來說，過了這麼多年，這首歌打動心底的溫暖，單純卻又充滿愛的歌詞，是許多現代歌曲無法匹及的程度。同期的男團樂團還有Westlife, Backstreet Boys等，許許多多的歌曲都有聽了讓人身心舒暢的感覺，希望未來有機會介紹到，而在BoyZone的歌曲中，我最想先介紹的就是這首All That I Need，這首歌除了歌詞簡單容易理解，最重要的是可以用來學英文文法！至於是哪一個文法，歌名都告訴你囉！

You're the air that I breathe

Girl, you're all that I need

【Air Supply--Two Less Lonely People in The World】

        第二首我想介紹著名的Air Supply，他們的特色大概就是甜得要死的歌詞和曲風，絕大部分的歌都是跟愛情有關，其中最有名的應該就是Making Love Out Of Nothing At All，此外，他們的巡迴演唱也常常來台灣表演。但在我熟知的他們的歌曲，我還是最喜歡今天介紹的這首，基本上也沒什麼生僻字，然而副歌的描述相當有趣：當我的人生全都是錯的時候，只有你的出現是對的！

Two less lonely people in the world

【Owl City--If My House Was a House】

        第一首我想先介紹Owl City，最有名的歌曲大概就是Fireflies和Good Time為人所知，但其實他的歌曲用詞非常的華麗和夢幻。今天介紹的這首If My House Was a House就是一首例子，我很喜歡他用比喻和意象來表達心之所向的愛情。

Circle me and the needle moves gracefully, 

back and forth,

I can still remember the scene: dark classroom filled with depression, and me alone. It has been a nightmare since I passed the first test of high-intermediate level of GEPT. However, I could not forget first day when that nightmare came to my dream.

I passed that test when I was fifteen, and was recognized as one of the English pros in our school. Being young and innocent, I was satisfied with the thought of becoming the best. Instead of staying humble all the time, I began to show off and have my ego inflated, thinking that nobody would be better than me. I started to teach others hard and unfamiliar words and gorgeous grammar to make them stunned. I grew to look down on others, and ignore how they feel. 

However, that nightmare in the middle of the night really sobered me up, I waking up with screaming, tears and sweat. 

There was me, sitting and still teaching classmates. Suddenly, our English teacher rushed into our classroom, talking breathlessly, and declared that half of our classmates passed the first test of high-intermediate level of GEPT, just like I was. At that moment, the whole classroom was roaring with joy. Before long they saw me standing there speechless. What happened at the very next day was that they all watched me with complicated and elusive expressions, telling me something I could not understand. I could not even read their faces when all of them turned away, walked out of the classroom and left me in the world falling black. Long I stood. Every part of my body shivered up and down. Every disc in my spine quivered with grief. There were faces beneath my skin whispering, "You're no longer a pro but a nobody with everyone ignoring you." Sounds echoed even when I screamed and woke up with fear. 

Maybe it was a blessing in disguise, and passing the test was a nightmare dressed like a daydream. I finally woke up and found that I should not be so proud of being such a pro. Arrogance would finally swallow me up if I kept falling. Now I know I should also be more friendly to classmates!

Lately I have been listening to rock and violent songs and can't get these rhythm out of my head. Undoubtly the loudest voices are from Muse, a popular band that probably won't feed any of my parents' appetite. The vocal of this band is known by his high pitched falsetto to express the songs. With strong sounds of drums and electric guitar, those songs are not so welcomed. 

Other voices are from a band mentioned before called Daughtry. I remember that you once asked me about the origin of the name, then I got the information that the vocal is named Chris Daughtry. It is self-evident to know he has a bit smokey voice from his songs. Truly, I enjoy listening to this kind of voices singing as they are shouting with their deep and low sounds. Well, maybe I was drenching myself in songs to run away from the pressure of the final exams.

lyric everyday:

I was writing this correspondence book when my mom asked me whether we need to do this in senior 3. She looked at my correspondence book, which is ragged and thicken by untidy papers, smiled with a sigh of awe and said to me that this must be a treasure for me. Then, she kept on talking about keeping it as a heirloom. Furthermore, she mentioned that type those reflection to turn them into a series of "Dear Diary" and contribute to the magazines.

Dear Diary? Come on! Those are just murmuring and grumbling over trivial daily events. Whether they are really worth reading remains a mystery. But I do like the feel of writing diaries in English and getting reaction from the dead book. Sometimes I really wonder how I had done these things that I regarded them impossible. Making this book a heirloom sounds good, but the idea of contributing to the magazines or newspaper seems a little bit too good for me.

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