British Modern Rock을 줄여서 브릿팝이라 부르는데, 이 브릿팝의 정의에 대해서는 이런 저런 논란이 많지만 대체로 1990년대에 영국에서 등장한 밝고 경쾌한 영국풍의 얼터너티브 락을 말합니다. 대표적인 밴드로 오아시스 Oasis, 블러 Blur, 스웨이드 Suede, 펄프 Pulp 정도가 있는데, 이 중 1995년에 발표한 오아시스 Oasis의 정규 2집 <(What's the story) Morning Glory?>에 수록된 노래 'Don't Look Back in Anger'가 오늘 포스팅의 주제입니다.
아침에 맞춰 놓은 알람 시계 소리가 울리기 전에 눈을 뜰 때면 어떤 멜로디가 머릿속을 맴돌 때가 있습니다. 오늘은 눈을 뜨는데 'Don't Look Back in Anger'의 기타 리프가 머릿속에 계속 맴돕니다.
마음 속에 억눌러 둔 감정을 끌어내는 노래가 몇 있는데, 이 노래도 스피커에서 흘러 나올때마다 속에서 뭔지 모를 감정이 북받쳐 올라서 제대로 듣지 못하는 노래 중 하나입니다.
Slip inside the eye of your mind
Don't you know you might find
A better place to play
You said that you'd never been
But all the things that you've seen
Will slowly fade away
So I'll start a revolution from my bed
'Cause you said the brains I had went to my head
Step outside, summertime's in bloom
Stand up beside the fireplace
Take that look from off your face
You ain't never gonna burn my heart out
And so Sally can wait, she knows it's too late as we're walking on by
Her soul slides away, "But don't look back in anger," I heard you say
Take me to the place where you go
Where nobody knows if it's night or day
Please don't put your life in the hands
Of a Rock 'n' Roll band
Who'll throw it all away
Gonna start a revolution from my bed
'Cause you said the brains I had went to my head
Step outside 'cause summertime's in bloom
Stand up beside the fireplace, take that look from off your face
'Cause you ain't never gonna burn my heart out
And so Sally can wait
She knows it's too late as she's walking on by
My soul slides away
"But don't look back in anger," I heard you say
So Sally can wait
She knows it's too late as we're walking on by
Her soul slides away
"But don't look back in anger," I heard you say
So Sally can wait
She knows it's too late as she's walking on by
My soul slides away
"But don't look back in anger, don't look back in anger."
I heard you say,
"at least not today."
일은 바쁘고, 갈 길은 멀고, 답답해서 남몰래 실컷 울고 싶은데 울 수 있는 곳이 없어서 더 서러운 기분이 드는 아침입니다.
