이제 제이콥 딜런의 월플라워스는 아버지 밥 딜런의 그늘을 완전히 벗어났다. 전 세계적으로 600만장의 판매고를 기록한 2집 는 그 시작이자 마지막이었다. 전작 부터는 밴드 멤버들의 얼굴을 전면으로 내세우며 월플라워스의 공간이 확보됐음을 만천하에 선언했다. 음반은 비록 미국에서 오십 만장이라는 저조한 실적을 가져다 줬지만, 멤버들은 전혀 위축됨이 없었다. 오히려 자신감이 넘쳐났다. “나는 판매량의 사로잡히지 않는다. 우리가 최선을 다했다는 것을 팬들이 이해하면 그것으로 족하다”는 제이콥의 말이 대변한다.
이런 마음가짐은 이번 신보 에도 고스란히 나타난다. 지난해 10월 오랫동안 동고동락해온 리드 기타리스트 마이클 워드(Michael Ward)가 팀을 떠나 불안정한 모습을 보여주지 않을까 걱정했지만 그것은 기우에 불과했다. 마이클 워드를 대신에 제이콥이 리드 기타리스트의 보직을 직접 담당했고, 키보디스트 래미 제피(Rami Jeffee), 베이시스트 그렉 리칠링(Greg Richling), 드러머 마리오 컬리르(Mario Calire)의 견고한 팀워크는 여전하다. 그리고 펄 잼의 기타리스트 마이크 맥크레디(Mike McCready)와 셰릴 크로우 밴드에서 활동하는 기타리스트 발 백컬럼(Val McCallum)이 게스트로 참여하여 마이클 워드의 공백을 메우고 있다. 여기에 밴드의 오리지널 기타리스트였던 토비 밀러(Toby Miller)와 그의 오랜 파트너인 빌 애플베리(Bill Appleberry)가 프로듀서를 맡아 사운드를 책임졌다. 제이콥은 토비와의 작업에 대해 “나는 우리의 음악을 이해하는 사람과 작업을 하길 원했는데, 토비는 나와 10년이 넘게 아는 친구이다”며 만족해했다. 이는 월플라워스가 토비 밀러와의 파트너십을 통해 관록과 여유를 찾아내려는 의도로 풀이된다. 자신들의 음악을 변형이나 훼손하지 않고, 더욱 더 진한 맛을 풍기는 루츠 록 사운드로 만들려는 의지이다.
밴드의 이 같은 꿈★은 이루어졌다. 우선 이번 4집 앨범은 3집에서 거의 찾아보기 힘들었던 'One headlight'같은 '노래'들을 포획하는데 성공했다. 흡인력 강한 멜로디를 품고 있는 아메리칸 로큰롤이다. 물론 이들의 '미국성'이 국내 팬들의 정서와 만족할 정도로 교신될 지는 미지수이지만 말이다. 격정적인 로큰롤 넘버 'How good can it get', 피아노의 아름다움이 리드하는 'Closer 2 u', 루츠 록의 전형을 보여주는 'Everything i need'에서의 뜨거운 열정은 쉽게 가슴에서 내려놓지 못한다. 또한 월플라워스의 사운드는 수 십 년 캐리어를 쌓아온 노장 밴드 못지 않게 능수 능란하다. 이제 30대 중반에 접어들고 있다고 믿기 힘들 정도의 완숙한 제이콥 딜런의 보컬과 먼 곳을 응시하며 편안하게 연주하는 듯한 소리샘은 음악의 진정한 목표를 아는 이들만의 소유물이다. 마크 노플러를 연상시키는 'Pleasantville', 힘찬 기타 리프가 인상적인 'Everybody out of the water' 등이 그것이다. 이제 더 이상 제이콥 딜런과 그의 동료들은 구석에서 천대받던 월플라워가 아니다. 오히려 장미보다 더욱 잘 팔리는 꽃이 되었다. 이들은 구석 자리도 중앙 못지 않은 VIP지역이라는 것을 증명했고, 남들이 불러주지 않아도 스스로 자력갱생할 수 있음을 보여줬다. 그것은 단지 제이콥이 아버지에 대해 가지고 있는 복잡 미묘한 감정의 선(線)들이 작용해서만은 아니다. 트렌드에 밀려 위로 솟구치지 못하고 있는 아메리칸 록과 루츠 록이 오랫동안 참고 지내왔던 눈물의 씨앗이 자라났기 때문이기도 하다. 월플라워스와 루츠 록은 그렇게 참고 살아왔고, 결국에 비상했다. -수록곡- 1. When You're on Top 2. How Good It Can Get 3. Closer to You 4. Everybody Out of the Water 5. Three Ways 6. Too Late to Quit 7. If You Never Got Sick 8. Health and Happiness 9. See You When I Get There 10. Feels Like Summer Again 11. Everything I Need 12. Here in Pleasantville .... ....
Here comes your drunken marionette Dragging his mess of threads There at the bar pulling smoke to his lungs He says, "Who will ignore me when you're gone?"
Now come on lift me up I wanna dance by your tin cup A tower of beauty with a split in your tongue "Who will ignore me when you're gone" He says, "who will ignore me when you're gone?"
Here he comes Here he comes Be still the wooden heart that wouldn't ever part, with the drunken marionette
Been mainlining bad thoughts Been drinking things I wish I'd not Intoxicated with sad songs "Who will forgive you when I'm gone?"
They sing Auld Lang Syne I've got mutiny on my mind A guilty conscience means at least you've got one "Who will forgive you when I'm gone?" He says, "who will forgive you when I'm gone?"
Here he comes Here he comes Be still the wooden heart, that wouldn't ever part Who's waiting on a spark that hasn't happened yet For the drunken marionette
carry on and turn the lights low when you go in the hours left I hope you feel the things that I know I won't
what you give is what you get These days I worry about your debt Who carries evil out, evil will come "Who will defend you when I'm gone" He says, "who will defend you when I'm gone?"
here he comes here he comes Be still the wooden heart, that wouldn't ever part Who's waiting on a spark that hasn't happened yet Here he comes here he comes Be still the wooden heart, that wouldn't ever part Who's waiting on a spark That hasn't happened yet for the drunken marionette
One, two boys by the river Down by the water Tellin' riddles in the dark With fireflies under the moonlight Carvin' the insides of a tree with a knife Ever hear the one about the boy's big sister His best friend come along He tried to kiss her
(CHORUS): The only difference That I see Is you are exactly the same As you used to be One boy lives in a tower With bow and arrow And the artificial heart With his girl Late in the summer He loaded the cannon With a jealous appetite They say that children now They come in all ages And maybe sometimes old men die With little boy faces
(CHORUS)
You always said that you needed some But you always had more, more than anyone
Alone tonight in somebody's bed She gone and dyed her hair red She only went and did what she did 'Cause he would drive her home then There's lipstick on her new dress She hadn't even paid yet But it doesn't matter where the money went It wasn't how she paid her rent
One, two, three Marlenas There's got to be someone we can trust Out here among us
Now lookin' out across the city lights She thought they'd be a good pair Now he could make a living sellin' cars Maybe she could work there She's gonna pick a star in the night And pray to make it all right She tried so hard not to pick a kite She always prayed to heaven lights
One, two, three Marlenas There's got to be someone we can trust Out here among us One, two, three Marlenas It's see no, speak no, hear no evil about us The three Marlenas
Man, I think I'm gonna buy myself a Rolls Maybe a Chevrolet One where I can pull that top down Just let my radio play Now I'm headin' out on that highway I'm goin' right out of state Now I ain't lookin' back until I'm gone Right through heaven's gates
One, two, three Marlenas There's got to be someone we can trust Out here among us One, two, three Marlenas Ya see no, speak no, hear no evil among us The three Marlenas Three Marlenas Three Marlenas
So long ago I don't remember when That's when they say I lost my only friend Well they said she died easy of a broken heart disease As I listened through the cemetery trees
I seen the sun comin up at the funeral at dawn long broken arm of human law Now it always seemed such a waste She always had a pretty face So I wondered how she hung around this place
Hey come on try a little Nothing is forever There's got to be something better than In the middle But me n Cinderella We put it all together We can drive it home With one headlight
She said it's cold It feels like Independence Day And I can't break away from this parade But there's got to be an opening Somewhere here in front of me Through this maze of ugliness and greed I seen the sun up ahead At the county line bridge Sayin all there's good and nothingness is dead We'll run until she's out of breath She ran until there's nothin left She hit the end it's just her window ledge
Hey come on try a little Nothing is forever There's got to be something better than In the middle But me n Cinderella We put it all together We can drive it home With one headlight
Well this place is old It feels just like a beat up truck I turn the engine but the engine doesn't turn Well it smells of cheap wine n cigarettes This place is always such a mess Sometimes I think I'd like to watch it burn I'm so alone and I feel just like somebody else Man I ain't changed but I know I ain't the same But somewhere here in between the city walls of dyin dreams I think of death it must be killin me
Hey Hey Hey come on try a little Nothing is forever There's got to be something better than In the middle But me n Cinderella We put it all together We can drive it home With one headlight
New heaven over a brand new sky New breed of wonder on the vine Among the living There is new promise in this night
New arms to hold back the revolution New eyes to recognize what you've become New blood to recover A new will to honor all God's creations
All things are new again Within and without All things are new again
New shepherd roaming through the tall grass A new temple rising through the falling ash That buries the tracks Of millions of boots marching in packs
Clear water rolling through the dam's collapse Out to the harbor where they're sailing back New flag on the mast Without any secrets, without any past
All things are new again Within and without Sooner or later the ending begins Just then it can be said that all things are new again
New ghost returning to the earth beneath the haze New poets burning through the lines of every page I'm an unpainted portrait I am staring at a new sunset Without any memories yet
All things are new again Within and without Sooner or later the ending begins Just then it can be said that all things are new again Within and without Sooner or later every season ends Then forever it can be said that all things are new again
You'd have a wonderful day If you could see how lucky you are Now don't get carried away with your heart You're better where you are
You're not the only one Who's failed to hang on to a moving star Now don't be sorry, what's done now is done And this is who you are
These days feel numbered and long There's no one to speak of There's no one at all But you're not the reason that everyone's gone That's not how they are
There's no system to change No conditions are made No permissions to start Now don't go drawing lines in the sand That's not who you are
Sometimes a high wall, is just a wall Sometimes it's only there to make sure you feel small Or may be there to save you from the depths of a much deeper fall
The truth will not set you free It's okay to believe that you're not good enough God is not angry, not blind, deaf or dumb He knows how far you've come
Last night I dreamt one thousand lies I could see the dawn through a different set of eyes There in my slumber passing time Long live the world resting on its side
I walked the orchard with you Your hand in mine In the evergreens drinking wine I saw the snow fall in black and white From the auburn sky Last night I lived more than one thousand lives Not one of them survived
Up through the earth and at dawn I came I crossed the kingdom through venom pouring rain In the vacuum of my own brigade Resurrected to make you mine again
Orpheus looked back once She sailed the underworld No second chances will be earned I have returned as a phantom now To walk the bow and stern Last night I lived more than one thousand lives Not one of them survived
If we could do better I know that we would Maybe admit it now, we're not that good We keep the needle between zero and one You play your fiddle, baby, I'll play dumb
Into the pastures of our minds Goes my nearly beloved and I Blazing two parallel white lines Through this broken heart split open wide
Time may be on my side But it's mostly far behind I was the apple of your eye Now I'm the boy spinning on a wheel there Stuck with knives Last night I lived more than one thousand lives Not one of them survived
Fire on the porch on a summer's night All of my things are there inside Black smoke rise up, burn on burn higher I smell leaves and burning tires Dogs in the meadows barking wild Blackbird rise up, tell me what have you done
I'm not drunk and I'm not sad There's nothing inside that I want back Let me touch your lips, let me see where you're at Do you wonder how I am tonight Then don't lose time looking in my eyes Not every tear means you're gonna cry
From the bottom of my heart Comes a cold dark feeling There is nothing but dust In the layers I'm peeling
From the bottom of my heart Beats a rattling drum Marching back up the steps Into the rays of the sun
Under crushing skies of grays Paralyzed with phantom pains Before this room became just a place Where I just sleep through endless days Spinning webs and carving names Where thoughts break up, exploding in space
But I once crossed a quarter mile Through black pools of razor wire And cut through steel With the edge of a file While singing rhapsodies in stride Hellbent and dignified Now my time has come Who you fooling and why?
From the bottom of my heart Comes a cold dark feeling There is eminent death To the promise I'm keeping
From the bottom of my heart Comes an army of one Marching back up the steps Into the rays of the sun
Pale-faced and hollowed eyes Buried under ruptured skies Not every smile Means I'm laughing inside Two-faced and compromised I've enraptured you with lies Everything means nothing And tonight everything is mine
From the bottom of my heart Comes a cold dark feeling I have buried so much In the layers I'm peeling
From the bottom of my heart A battle will come Coming up from the depths Into the rays of the sun
From the bottom of my heart Comes a cold dark feeling Wrapped around tight With no sign of leaving
From the bottom of my heart A ballad is sung Through a whisper she comes Into the rays of the sun
I'm here by my window I am waiting for your parade I will salute you From above the crowd As you make your way You won the battle baby You've won the war I admit it now I could not give any more My condition is your reward I am a building Here without doors
The altitude is now Getting to me As they applaud you On the boulevard The whole valley looks like Someone's body All the people look like Little scars This day is taking Forever I will never say Never say never again The flesh around me Is only pretend Return to sender Every letter That is yours I am sure That I am a building Here without doors
Fire blazing On the overpass Cattle grazing In field of dead grass Last summer was earthquake weather By November This too should have passed I am not moving I am landlocked I am looking through A thousand windows spread across A thousand floors There in a landfill Where Eden was before But not anymore I am a building Here without doors
Did you see me waving to you from above Things are looking clear now My eyes are wide enough to see the way a sniper does Behind the barrel of a good gun
For worse or better I surrender It may not matter But I'm sadder than you'll ever know I am your inferno Here all in yellow With embers blowing north No sense in returning I'm not worried anymore I am a building that is here without doors
Feels like a ghost here in this room Well not the kind that rides a saddle in a costume All around me, all around you In from the window for a drag of your perfume
Let's move back to California Let's make a promise, baby let's both be there Put our feet deep in the sand This garden's only got four corners Back to your trenches back to California
The days keep coming and the years overlap Been crawling all over each other like wet cats Hear the rebels yelling out in the dunes I don't think it's half as a funny as I used to
Lets move back to CA Lets make a promise, baby let's both be there Put our feet deep in the sand Let's leave behind these maps and handguns We're on our way back to California We've got California in our eyes Come on catch us if you can with California in our eyes
Passing down through a valley full of lost sheep Straight is the gate, narrow is the walkway Mercury rising and poppies in bloom This is the kind of thing that I can get used to
Lets move back to California Lets make a promise, baby let's both be there Put our feet deep in the sand There's still no shortage in creating bad blood We're on our way back to California We've got California in our eyes Come on and catch us if you can with California in our eyes As fast as we can Back to California, Come on catch us if you can, back to California fast as we can Back to California
Seems like the world's gone underground No gods or heroes Dare to go down Tear drops from a hole in heaven come Overhead like ravens Dropping down like bombs Through the mornings silver frosted glow God says nothing back But I told you so I told you so God bless the void Of my daydreams Back in the snow Making angel wings Slow motion dancing lights have gone Sail beneath the burning yellow sun I'm calling out to the deep ends of my bones Time says nothing back But I told you so I told you so Still waters rising in my mind Black and deep Smoke behind my eyes Last night I could not sleep at all I hallucinated that you were in my arms To be in your heart I filled my own Love says nothing back But I told you so I told you so I'm still here And climbing every rung If someone saw something Now Someone speak up Back over the rotted bridge I cross Open up these graves Let these bodies talk I'm Burried under leaves blood red and gold Death says nothing back But I told you so I told you so....
Quarter moon on a city grown thick With good advice that won't stick From the ballrooms to the suburbs And the abandoned mines Atlantis may be rising but we're all out of time
Colored lights on the fire escape bodies move behind drapes And the light is uneven and we're safer in pairs And we're no match for what is waiting For each of us out there
Whistle, baby while we walk don't say anything, do not talk The journey is over, it is time to exhale Wherever we were going We're already there
It's over the turnstiles and through the guardrails and into Washington Square Cause no amount of nightmares would ever compare To the thought of only silence in this ghost-filled air
Whistle, baby while we walk Now don't say anything, do not talk The journey is over, it's too late to prepare Why can't you see that, baby We're already there
Here comes your silhouette and more pillow talk Here comes the ticking of these clocks They say the quickest way to end a war is just to lose Another chamber locks and I already withdrew
Here comes the booming and the hunger of each night Here comes the burden of might this day was not divinely made to leave you impressed We may become someone someday, but we haven't yet
Whistle, baby, while we walk Now don't say anything, do not talk The journey is over, it is time to repair Whatever we were building Baby, we're already there
Tomorrow is gonna make you cry It's gonna to make you kneel Before it breaks you from inside Still pressing on Arm over arm Still trying to get both feet back onto the ground They are harvesting these fields in autumn. We're different now than when we started
I am ready to wake up There in the exodus On the beautiful side of somewhere baby
There on the pavement Underneath the yellow moon I think of you And just how easily we bruise The folded address in my pocket i have stuffed Trying to believe for you That the bottom didn't drop I am on the platform Covered with dust I pray they take the both of us
I am ready to wake up There in the exodus On the beautiful side of somewhere baby I am ready to come down To see us both somehow On the beautiful side of somewhere someday
> Permission now to let this thing land I'm too far gone to know where I am Conditions are worse than we planned Permission now to let this thing land Heading straight into the blackness Beyond the point of ever turning back Slipping off the radar through a hole in space Goes the passenger sitting backwards Adam took the apple, I was not involved I'm not responsible for how lost we are Batten down the hatches, extinction calls But Adam took the apple, I was not involved Heading straight into the blackness Way beyond the point of ever turning back Slipping off the radar through a hole in space Goes the passenger sitting backwards Maybe a rumble Maybe nothing more Maybe a thunder There before she blows Maybe not a big bang But just a little white noise Into the furnace of red twilight Threading like a needle through searchlights Fading further and spinning right Into the furnace of red twilight Heading straight into the blackness Too far gone, now there's no turning back Slipping off the radar through a hole in space Goes the passenger sitting backwards
Cherry picking through the stars And falling cannonballs Waiting for the break of dawn To start its morning crawl Polluted rays of filtered light Tropical and warm Making shadows through The snow white resin covered skulls
Happy birthday to the war
Standing by the wall A rainbow made of stars Under seven different shades of grey Spreading out across the arc Days of wonder spent Out there killing time Now this may not leave a mark on me But I sure as hell was there
Caravanning on the moonlit Locust covered trail we came out like a stream of bats exploding from the well slipping through the whirlpools of trees and floating cars behind a winter coated mule down record breaking falls
Into oblivion's open jaws standing by the wall a rainbow made of stars under seven different shades of grey spreading out across the arc days of wonder spent out there killing time now this may not leave a mark on me but I sure as hell was there
Happy birthday to the war
Days of wonder spent by a rainbow made of stars under seven different shades of grey spreading out across the arc standing by the wall out there killing time now this may not leave a mark on me but I sure as hell was there
Educated under God to walk a neutral line give me neither poverty nor riches in my time take my body and my mind my heart is far behind with one dozen poems in my ear ricocheting wild
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