Famous Blue Raincoat

上星期好友e來王文華的「我是中年人」文末寫到 歲月最狡猾的一點 它讓你的身體和心態都老了 卻讓你的渴望依然年輕 接著又聽到Leonard Cohen 作詞作曲 由Jennifer Warnes唱的 Famous Blue Raincoat 春天真的是憂鬱症好發的季節

It's four in the morning, the end of December

I'm writing you now just to see if you're better

New York is cold, but I like where I'm living

There's music on Clinton Street all through the evening

I hear that you're building your house deep in the desert

Are you living for nothing now ?

Hope you're keeping some kind of record

Yes, and Jane came by with a lock of your hair

She said that you gave it to her

That night when you planned to go clear

Did you ever go clear ?

The last time we saw you, you looked so much older

Your famous blue raincoat was torn at the shoulder

You'd been to the station to meet every train

But she never turned up, I mean Lili Marlene

So you treated some woman to a flake of your life

And when she got home she was nobody's wife

I see you there with a rose in your teeth

One more thin gypsy thief

Well, I see Jane's awake

She sends her regards

What can I tell you ?

Oh what can I tell you ?

What can I possibly say ?

I guess that I miss you

I guess I forgive you

I'm glad that you stood in my way

And if you ever come by here

Be it for Jane or for me

I want you to know your enemy's sleeping

I want you to know your woman is free

Thanks for the trouble you took from her eyes

I thought it was there for good

So I never really tried

And Jane came by with a lock of your hair

She said that you gave it to her

That night when you planned to go clear

Sincerely, a friend