Pet Shop Boys-Being Boring

 당신 인생에 있어서 제일 영향을 많이 끼치고, 가장 좋아하는 곡이 무엇입니까, 라고 누군가 물어본다면 내가 자신있게 이곡입니다. 라고 말해줄 수 있는 노래.
 
 이 곡을 처음 들었던게 고1때였나, 도서관 가는 길에 라디오에서 펫 샵 보이즈의 You're always on my mind를 듣고 펫 샵 보이즈란 듀오에 꽃혀서 앨범도 다운받고 이것저것 찾아보고, 그러다가 Popart라는, 나름의 베스트 앨범을 사서 들었던 곡들중 하나. 그때 같이 꽃혔던 곡이 14번 트랙이었던 Paninaro '95 였는데(덕택에 내 왠만한 아이디는 거진 paninaro95다; 뭐 덴키그루브 좋아할때야 ishinotakkyu, 혹은 denkigroove로 아이디 통일했지만.)그 곡은 요새 잘 안듣지만 이곡은 참 열심히 듣는다.

 개인적으로는 음악 혼자 듣는것보단 뮤비랑 같이 보고 들어야 더 좋다고 생각하는 곡. Bruce Weber인가, 구미권의 유명한 CF감독으로 알고 있는데, 정말 가사랑 잘 맞는 영상을 보여줬다고 생각한다. 아마 내 사춘기에 끼친 영향이 많았으리라 싶기도 하고. (왠지 이걸 본 이후로 이런 모델같은 여자들을 더 좋아했다고 봐야되나?=_=)원 가사가 자기의 인생을 회고하는 내용인데, 그 내용에 맞게 파티의 시작-절정-결말을 보여주며 마지막을 아름답게 마무리 하는 이 뮤직비디오는 정말..내 인생에서 이것만한 뮤직비디오를 못봤다고 감히 자부할 정도로 좋다.
 
 가사도 괜찮다. 스콧 피츠제럴드의 아내인 젤더 피츠제럴드인가, 여튼 이 여자가 했던말-[She] bobbed her hair, put on her choicest pair of earrings and a great deal of audacity and rouge and went into battle. She flirted because it was fun to flirt... she covered her face with powder and paint because she didn’t need it and she refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring. She was conscious that the things she did were the things she had always wanted to do.-에서 감명을 얻어서한 사람의 인생에 대해서 이래 저래 썼다는데,뭐, 나도 사실인지 아닌지는잘 모르겠지만, 여튼 가사는 정말 탁월하다. 한사람의 인생을 파티와 이것저것, 그때의 떨리는 설레임, 등등으로잘 묘사한 모습은 정말..출력해서 질질 외우고 다닌 적도 있으니.


 여튼,내 인생 최고의 명곡.

가사,

I came across a cache of old photos
and invitations to teenage parties.
“Dress in white,” one said with quotations
from someone’s wife, a famous writer
in the nineteen-twenties.

When you’re young you find inspiration
in anyone who’s ever gone
and opened up a closing door.
She said we were never feeling bored.

‘Cause we were never being boring,
we had too much time to find for ourselves.
And we were never being boring,
we dressed up and fought, then thought “make amends.”
And we were never holding back, or worried that
time would come to an end.

When I went, I left from the station
with a haversack and some trepidation.
Someone said “If you’re not careful,
you’ll have nothing left and nothing to care for
in the nineteen-seventies.”

But I sat back, and looking forward,
my shoes were high, and I had scored.
I’d bolted through a closing door,
and I would never find myself feeling bored.

‘Cause we were never being boring,
we had too much time to find for ourselves.
And we were never being boring,
we dressed up and fought, then thought “make amends.”
And we were never holding back, or worried that
time would come to an end.
We were always hoping that, looking back
you could always rely on a friend.

Now I sit with different faces
in rented rooms and foreign places.
All the people I was kissing,
some are here and some are missing
in the nineteen-nineties.

I never dreamt that I would get to be
the creature that I always meant to be.
But I thought, in spite of dreams,
you’d be sitting somewhere here with me.

‘Cause we were never being boring,
we had too much time to find for ourselves.
And we were never being boring,
we dressed up and fought, then thought “make amends.”
And we were never holding back, or worried that
time would come to an end.
We were always hoping that, looking back
you could always rely on a friend.

‘Cause we were never being boring,
we had too much time to find for ourselves.
And we were never being boring,
we dressed up and fought, then thought “make amends.”
And we were never being boring,
we were never being bored,
‘cause we were never being boring,
we were never being bored.

 덧. 제일 좋아하는 부분은 바로
"But I thought, in spite of dreams,
you’d be sitting somewhere here with me."
 이부분.  꿈이랑 상관 없이,넌 나랑 어딘가에서 같이 앉아 있을줄 알았다고 홀로 탄식하는 이부분이 제일 좋다.