EPの1曲目の”It’s a Wise Child”は大きく分けて4つのバージョンがあって、その4つ目が”イッツ・ア・ワイズ・チャイルド”、3つ目が最後のトラックの”Because the Yellow Line Fades Away in the Evening Darkness”です。
この2曲は同じ歌詞だけど、言葉の意味が違うことに気が付きましたか？
自分は最近まで気が付きませんでした。曲が揃って、並べて、最初と最後に配置して、初めてEPを聴きとおした時に「同じ言葉なのに全然違う」と思いました。
今まで、セルフカヴァーとか他人のカヴァーとかにかかわらないけど、ある曲のカヴァーバージョンなんかを聴いて「同じ言葉なのに違った意味に聴こえるなー」と思ったりしてたわけですが、自分の事となると新鮮どころか驚きでした。
1年以上かかって何度もやり直したのって、もしかしたら、このためだったのかも…ってことはないけど、結果的にはこのためだったのかもしれないです。
始め、子供たちは記憶や想像の中に居たけど、ギターを弾きなおして、歌を歌いなおすことで実在になって、同じ空間で光を見たり話しをしたり走り回ったりした…のでしょうか。
過去に書いた歌詞の、同じ言葉の意味が変わるのって奇跡みたいだなっと思いました。
Track1. It’s a Wise Child
Track6. Because the Yellow Line Fades Away in the Evening Darkness
The first track on the EP, “It’s a Wise Child,” has four versions, the fourth of which is “It’s a Wise Child,” and the third is the last track, “Because the Yellow Line Fades Away in the Evening Darkness”.
Did you notice that the lyrics of these two songs are the same, but the meanings of the words are different?
I didn’t until recently. When I listened to the EP for the first time, I thought, “They are the same words, but they are completely different.
I had heard cover versions of certain songs before and thought, “It’s the same word, but it sounds different,” but when I heard it for myself, it was not only new, but surprising.
Maybe it was for this reason that I had to redo the process over and over for more than a year…not really, but maybe it was for this reason in the end.
In the beginning, the children were in my memory and imagination, but by playing the guitar again and singing the song again, they became real and saw the light, talked and ran around in the same space…or was it?
I thought it was like a miracle that the meaning of the same words could change, of the lyrics I had written in the past.
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