Working Class Hero
如果約翰連儂尚在人世,他會寫出更憤怒的歌,另一方面,他卻可能再也負荷不了更多的失望,隨歌老去。
最近一直在听Green Day翻唱連儂的《Working Class Hero》,昨天才醒覺自己有連儂唱這首歌的acoustic版。連儂唱得比青澀歲月隨意,不過,卻異常沉重。
這首歌,是他第一首談到自己工人階級根源的歌曲。連儂小時家境不好,父親是船員,母親則遺棄他們,而他成長的利物普是一個典型的工人城市。他後來在訪問中說,那樣的勞動階級文化環境使他本能上就是一個社會主義者。
40年就快過去了,為何這道歌依然是如此貼近我們今天所面對的一切?
他曾經用兩句話寫下馬克思的剩餘價值論:「百萬工人辛勤工作卻什麼也得不到/你最好給予他們真正擁有的!」
Working Class Hero
by John Lennon
As soon as you're born they make you feel small
By giving you no time instead of it all
Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
They hurt you at home and they hit you at school
They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool
Till you're so fucking crazy you can't follow their rules
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
When they've tortured and scared you for twenty odd years
Then they expect you to pick a career
When you can't really function you're so full of fear
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV
And you think you're so clever and class less and free
But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
There's room at the top they are telling you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want to be like the folks on the hill
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
If you want to be a hero well just follow me
If you want to be a hero well just follow me

















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