イギリスのロックバンド
ご存知の方も多く今更と言われるかもしれませんがマニック・ストリート・プリーチャーズというイギリスのバンドは素晴らしい。単なるパンク系ロックバンドかと思いきや、思いっきりリリックな歌詞とメローな曲も演れる、万能型。またボーカルの独特の節回しと心地よく、ロックといえどもしっとりと聴ける。
そんなMANICS(バンドの愛称)の曲で最初に気に入ったのが「OCEAN SPRAY」。TUTAYAの視聴コーナーのヘッドフォンを通して耳に入ってきた語りかけるような最初のフレーズにびっくり。「目、とても美しいです。とても美しい目をしています」。日本語だったんです。その後に続く、シンプルなメロディーライン。「こいつら只者ではない」。一気にファンになった次第です。
さて、1990年代にデビューした彼らですが、昨年も来日し今でも底力を見せ付けてくれています。最後にもうひとつ大好きな曲がありますのでご紹介しておきます。
Title: The Everlasting
The gap that grows between our lives
The gap our parents never had
Stop those thoughts control your mind
Replace the things that you despise
Oh you're old I hear you say
It doesn't mean that I don't care
I don't believe in it anymore
Pathetic acts for a worthless cause
In the beginning when we were winning
When our smiles were genuine
In the beginning when we were winning
When our smiles were genuine
But now unforgiven the everlasting
Everlasting
The world is full of refugees
They're just like you and just like me
But as people we have a choice
To end the void with all its force
So don't forget or don't pretend
It's all the same now in the end
It was set in a different life
Destroys my days and haunts my nights?
In the beginning when we were winning
When our smiles were genuine
In the beginning when we were winning
When our smiles were genuine
But now unforgiving the everlasting
Everlasting
In the beginning when we were winning
When our smiles were genuine
In the beginning when we were winning
When our smiles were genuine
Now unforgiving, the everlasting
Everlasting
But now unforgiving, the everlasting
Everlasting
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