Last Morning

夏の楽園でぼくが本当に求めていたのは、そこにいること、だったかもしれない。他には何も必要なかった。お金も実績も、感動も記録も。ただそこにいられることだけを願って１年に一度、あの場所をめざした。

-Masaru Tosaki / 楽園通信2000 (Jan.2000)

More Than This

I could feel at the time
There was no way of knowing
Fallen leaves in the night
Who can say where they're blowing
As free as the wind
And hopefully learning
Why the sea on the tide
Has no way of turning

More than this - there is nothing
More than this - tell me one thing
More than this - there is nothing

-Roxy Music / Avalon (1982)
-Bill Murray sings in "Lost in Translation"(2003)

２６６６

　ドイツに戻って３か月たったころのある晩、アルチンボルディが姿を現わした。
　ロッテはもう寝ようとしていたところで、寝間着を着ているときにブザーが鳴った。インターホンで、どなたですか？　と訊いた。
　「僕だよ」とアルチンボルディは言った。「君の兄貴だ」
　その晩、二人は夜が明けるまで話し込んだ。

-ロベルト・ボラーニョ / ２６６６ (2004) 852ページ

あなたの船

坂を下りれば潮風が私の髪を梳かして
遠く見えるは幻かあなたの船とあの歌

あれから三年過ぎたわ町は回る風車
汚れた指輪見つけたわあの日のあなたと私
自転車に乗って坂を下りれば
あなたの船が待ってる
今日まで今日まで私は生きてたわ

ハイウェイの風は私を町へ町へと急がせる
あなたは私の体に染みこんではこない

-斎藤哲夫 / 僕の古い友達 (1975)
-written by 渡辺勝

左：渡辺勝 / シルバラード (2000) CD
中：渡辺勝バンド　ライブのチラシ (1979・岐阜) drawing by Akemi T.
右：斎藤哲夫 / ダータファブラ (1992) CD

Bell Bottom Blues

Bell bottom blues, you made me cry.
I don't want to lose this feeling.
And if I could choose a place to die
It would be in your arms.

Do you want to see me crawl across the floor to you?
Do you want to hear me beg you to take me back?
I'd gladly do it because
I don't want to fade away.
Give me one more day, please.
I don't want to fade away.
In your heart I want to stay.

-Derek and the Dominos / Layla (1970)

Is This Love

I wanna love you and treat you right
I wanna love you every day and every night
We'll be together with a roof right over our heads
We'll share the shelter of my single bed
We'll share the same room, yeah! - for Jah provide the bread

Is this love - is this love - is this love
Is this love that I'm feelin'?
Is this love - is this love - is this love
Is this love that I'm feelin'?
I wanna know - wanna know - wanna know now!
I got to know - got to know - got to know now!

-Bob Marley and the Wailers / Kaya (1978)

Lipstick Sunset

Well, a radio was playing
And that ol' summer heat was on the rise
I just had to get away
Before some sad old song
Brought tears to my eyes

And Lord I couldn't tell her
That her love was only killing me
By the end of the day
All her sweet dreams would fade
To a lipstick sunset

-John Hiatt  / Bring the family (1987)