经验总是会犯错误。就好像Gnarls Barkley中的小黑胖子，谁能料到满脸横肉的他居然原配一副尖细脆弱的嗓子？再回头瞅瞅我们的主角，Iron and Wine 主唱Sam Beam，拥有一嘴恩格斯式大胡子的他，唱起歌来居然温柔得像一只小猫。
因此，人不可貌相，男人和有男人味道是两码事。
我在北京呆了7年，习惯了那里的粗糙和大气，如今到了杭州，非常的不适应。当最高气温足足还有15度的时候，这里的男人已经早早穿上了秋裤。白天哄这些敏感体开心，晚上继续被Maximilian Hecker等"只怕我柔情得不够彻底"之流狂轰滥炸。谁说杭州上海是音乐的沙漠？拥有中国最细腻的男人，indie音乐将在长三角生根发芽，遍地开花。
我不得不承认，唱indie的男人呐，你们的心是水做的。
A positive possible take on first song: it's not about dissatisfaction and longing for the past, it's about young love that's grown old. his wife is the same girl who he meets beyond the ridge. in the last stanza, "our newborn love" is actually a newborn, their child. "time has bridled us both", meaning we're old now but we're still in love, i remember how it was when we were young.
but that interpretation is pretty much ruined by "i met my wife at a party when i drank too much". how could he have met her at a party if he knew her from the ridge?
i didn't really find this disappointing; in fact, it's an older song from a home recording session that i think was improved upon in the new ep. this is actually one of the more upsetting iron and wine songs for me, because the themes of dissatisfaction with life and longing for the past are pretty big downers, especially in the stanza with the line: "call it predictable, yesterday my dream was of you." i like it a lot.
————引用songmeanings.net里网友对第一首歌的评价
此专辑由 老人 于2006-11-22分享
