Mike & The Mechanics的創始人Mike Rutherford原本是英國藝術搖滾樂團Genesis的吉他手,


和隊友Phil Collins一樣,他老兄經常利用閒暇之餘發發個人專輯,


1979 1982年分別發表了「Smallcreep’s Day」和「Acting Very Strange」兩張專輯。


 


1985年,Mike Rutherford以實驗的玩票性質另組Mike & The Mechanics樂團,


首張同名專輯,「Silent Running( On Dangerous Ground ) 」和 All I Need Is a Miracle」成為暢銷單曲,


分別拿下了Billboard排行榜的第6及第5名,成績斐然。


 


1988年的第二張專輯中,


標題歌「The Living Years」由B.A Robertson 填詞、Mike Rutherford譜曲,


是兩位詞曲創作人在經歷喪父之痛後的嘔心力作。


 


這首歌內容深刻動人,描述親子之間的代溝問題,


刻劃了「樹欲靜而風不止,子欲養而親不待」的別離哀情與深深遺憾。


Paul Carrack真摯的歌聲加上蕩氣迴腸的大合唱,


Mike & The Mechanics奪下了第一次和唯一一次的排行冠軍寶座。


 


1989年「The Living Years」也獲得提名角逐該年度葛萊美獎的「最佳年度歌曲」,


雖然最後輸給了Bette Midler的「Wind Beneath My Wings


但這首歌儼然已成為Mike & The Mechanics的代表作,


也是近代音樂史上最感人的經典佳作之一。



 

The Living Years - Mike and the Mechanics

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Every generation blames the one before
And all of their frustrations
Come beating on your door
I know that I'm a prisoner to all my father held so dear
I know that I'm a hostage to all his hopes and fears
I just wish I could have told him
In the living years

More crumpled bits of paper
Filled with imperfect thought
Stilted conversations
I'm afraid that's all we've got
You say you just don't see it
He says it's perfect sense
You just can't get agreement in this present tense
We all talk a different language
Talking in defense

Say it loud, say it clear
You can listen as well as you hear
It's too late when we die
To admit we don't see eye to eye

So we open up a quarrel
Between the present and the past
We only sacrifice the future
It's the bitterness that lasts
So don't yield to the fortunes
You sometimes see as fate
It may have a new perspective on a different day
And if you don't give up and don't give in
You may just be O.K.

I wasn't there that morning when my father passed away
I didn't get to tell him all the things I had to say
I think I caught his spirit later that same year
I'm sure I heard his echo
In my baby's new born tears
I just wish I could have told him
In the living years


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