"Heal The World"

There's A Place In
Your Heart
And I Know That It Is Love
And This Place Could
Be Much
Brighter Than Tomorrow
And If You Really Try
You'll Find There's No Need 
To Cry
In This Place You'll Feel
There's No Hurt Or Sorrow

There Are Ways
To Get There
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Little Space
Make A Better Place...

Heal The World
Make It A Better Place
For You And For Me
And The Entire Human Race
There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

If You Want To Know Why
There's A Love That
Cannot Lie
Love Is Strong
It Only Cares For
Joyful Giving
If We Try
We Shall See
In This Bliss
We Cannot Feel
Fear Or Dread
We Stop Existing And
Start Living

Then It Feels That Always
Love's Enough For
Us Growing
So Make A Better World
Make A Better World...

Heal The World
Make It A Better Place
For You And For Me
And The Entire Human Race
There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

And The Dream We Were
Conceived In
Will Reveal A Joyful Face
And The World We
Once Believed In
Will Shine Again In Grace
Then Why Do We Keep
Strangling Life
Wound This Earth
Crucify Its Soul
Though It's Plain To See
This World Is Heavenly
Be God's Glow

We Could Fly So High
Let Our Spirits Never Die
In My Heart
I Feel You Are All
My Brothers
Create A World With
No Fear
Together We'll Cry
Happy Tears
See The Nations Turn
Their Swords
Into Plowshares

We Could Really Get There
If You Cared Enough
For The Living
Make A Little Space
To Make A Better Place...

Heal The World
Make It A Better Place
For You And For Me
And The Entire Human Race
There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

Heal The World
Make It A Better Place
For You And For Me
And The Entire Human Race
There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

Heal The World
Make It A Better Place
For You And For Me
And The Entire Human Race
There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

You And For Me
You And For Me
You And For Me
You And For Me
You And For Me
You And For Me
You And For Me
You And For Me
You And For Me
You And For Me
You And For Me

終於買了 Pet Shop Boys 的新碟 "Yes" ，實在太高興，因為是喜出望外，除了 "Love etc." 是十分一流之外，其他都真的是精彩，不過可惜的是找不到 "Love etc." 的 Single。

其中 "All Over the World" 的 Intro 真的正，當然還有歌詞︰

it's something
that look in your eyes tonight
like magic
it's changing everything in sight
I hear it
all around me everyday
in the music that you play

"More than a dream" 確實令我一聽再聽︰

driving through the night
just you and me
faster than the pale moonlight
something's calling
calling us away
do you believe
Heaven is a better place?
we'll be there in a heartbeat
I believe
we can change
we can make it more than a dream
and I believe
we can change
it's not as strange as it might seem

The iTunes preview of the new album, Yes, by Pet Shop Boys.

1. Love etc.
2. All Over the World
3. Beautiful People
4. Did You See Me Coming?
5. Vulnerable
6. More Than a Dream
7. Building a Wall
8. King of Rome
9. Pandemonium
10. The Way It Used To Be
11. Legacy

Love etc.

期待已久的 Pet Shop Boys 新碟即將推出，最新主打的 Love etc. 已經可以收聽，真的十分 Pet Shop Boys…正。

Love etc.

Boy, it's tough
getting on in the world
when the sun doesn't shine
and a boy needs a girl
It's about getting out of a rut
you need luck
but you're stuck
and you don't know how

Don't have to be
a big bucks Hollywood star
Don't have to drive
a super car to get far
Don't have to live
a life of power and wealth
Don't have to be
beautiful but it helps
Don't have to buy
a house in Beverly Hills
Don't have to have
your daddy paying the bills
Don't have to live
a life of power and wealth
Don't have to be
beautiful but it helps

You need more than a big blank cheque to be a lover or
a Gulfstream jet to fly you door to door
somewhere chic on another shore
You need more, you need more, you need more
You need more, you need more, you need more, you need love

Too much of anything
is never enough
Too much of everything
is never enough

Boy, it's tough
getting on in the world
when the sun doesn't shine
and a boy needs a girl
It's about getting out of a rut
you need luck
Boy, you're stuck
and you don't know how

Don't have to be
a big bucks Hollywood star
Don't have to drive
a super car to get far
Don't have to wear
a smile much colder than ice
Don't have to be
beautiful but it's nice

You need more than
the Gerhard Richter hanging on your wall
a chauffeur-driven limousine on call
to drive your wife and lover to a white tie ball
You need more, you need more, you need more
You need more, you need love

I believe
that we can achieve
the love that we need
I believe
call me naive
that love is for free

Don't have to be
a big bucks Hollywood star
Don't have to drive
a super car to get far
Don't have to live
a life of power and wealth
Don't have to be
beautiful but it helps
beautiful but it helps
beautiful but it helps

自從聽了 MISIA 後，有點著魔的感覺，每日總要聽聽她的音樂才安樂，今晚便看了這 "DECIMO X ANIVERSARIO DE MISIA"  DVD，沒有華麗的服飾，沒有壯觀舞台，只需她一人的演唱，便已是嘆為觀止。

To Be In Love

已有一段日子在這有趣的音樂網站 http://www.jango.com 找尋喜愛的音樂，而這網站特別的地方是，只要輸入某個歌手的名字，便會幫你找出相同風格的，及其互相影響、啟發的音樂人，Erasure 便是從這處認識的。

第一次聽了這 Oh L'Amour 便知道這是自己喜愛的音樂，但在香港好像找不到他們的蹤影，他們的 CD 真的難尋，幸好今天偶然間找到了其中一隻 Live DVD ，不算得上是十分精彩，畢竟對他們的認識還淺，下年將會推出精選碟，是一次認識的好機會。

Oh L'Amour

Oh lamour
Broke my heart
Now Im aching for you
Mon amour
Whats a boy in love
Supposed to do

Looking for you
You were looking for me
Always reaching for you
You were too blind to see
Oh love of my heart
Why leave me alone
Im falling apart
No good on my own

Oh lamour
Broke my heart
Now Im aching for you
Mon amour
Whats a boy in love
Supposed to do

Why throw it away
Why walk out on me
I just live for the day
For the way it should be
There once was a time
Had you here by my side
You said I wasnt your kind
Only here for the ride

Oh lamour
Broke my heart
Now Im aching for you
Mon amour
Whats a boy in love
Supposed to do

No emotional ties
You dont remember my name
I lay down and die
Im only to blame
Oh love of my heart
Its up to you now
You tore me apart
I heard inside-out

Oh lamour
Broke my heart
Now Im aching for you
Mon amour
Whats a boy in love
Supposed to do

Oh lamour
Broke my heart
Now Im aching for you
Mon amour
Whats a boy in love
Supposed to do

http://www.brits.co.uk/

Pet Shop Boys honoured with the Outstanding Contribution To Music Award

PET SHOP BOYS GO WEST TO EARLS COURT IN FEBRUARY TO PICK UP OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO MUSIC.

Neil Tennant and Chrls Lowe to be honoured with the Outstanding Contribution To Music Award and perform at The BRIT Awards 2009 with MasterCard.

Press information – Monday, 3 November 2008.
The UK’s recorded music association, The BPI, today unveiled the recipient of the prestigious Outstanding Contribution to Music Award. Pioneering British Dance duo, Pet Shop Boys, will be awarded with the revered trophy at The BRIT Awards with MasterCard 2009 on Wednesday 18 February.

A packed audience at Earls Court plus millions of viewers watching live on ITV1 will witness an iconic performance from the Pet Shop Boys when they take to The BRITs stage.

Ged Doherty, Chairman of The BRITs Committee said, “Since their first BRIT Award over 20 years ago, Neil and Chris have produced a fantastic body of work with songs that truly were the soundtrack to a whole generation’s lives. The Pet Shop Boys have since become one of the most influential groups of the modern era and are deserving recipients of the award.”

Pet Shop Boys Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe have sold 50 million records since they signed to Parlophone in 1985 with four No 1 singles, 22 top 10 hits and a staggering 39 top 30 singles making them one of the most successful pop duos ever.

In 1986 their first hit single, the anthemic “West End Girls”, topped the charts all over the world and the following year their single “What Have I Done To Deserve This?” relaunched the career of Dusty Springfield.
Pet Shop Boys have also worked as producers or remixers with artists including Robbie Williams, Liza Minnelli, David Bowie, Madonna, Kylie, Yoko Ono, The Killers and, as part of the group Electronic with Johnny Marr and Bernard Sumner.

This is a welcome return to The BRITs for the Pet Shop Boys who were awarded their first BRIT in 1987 winning Best British Single for ‘West End Girls’. The duo went on to pick up the coveted Best British Group Award in 1988 and performed their hit single Go West with the accompaniment of a 200 piece Welsh male choir in 1994 while being lowered onto the stage by two huge cranes.

Pet Shop Boys will receive the prestigious award, a gift from the council of the BPI, and perform live at The BRITs 2009 with MasterCard. Previous recipients of the Outstanding Contribution To Music Award include Paul McCartney, Oasis, U2, Paul Weller, Tom Jones, Sting. David Bowie, Eurythmics, The Beatles and The Who.

得知這消息後，不得不播隻經典之作 West End Girls。

West End Girls

Sometimes you're better off dead
There's a gun in your hand and it's pointing at your head
You think you're mad, too unstable
kicking in chairs and knocking down tables
in a restaurant in a West End town
Call the police! There's a madman around
Running down underground
to a dive bar in a West End town

In a West End town, a dead end world
the East End boys and West End girls
In a West End town, a dead end world
the East End boys and West End girls
West End girls

Too many shadows, whispering voices
faces on posters, too many choices
If? When? Why? What?
How much have you got?
Have you got it? Do you get it?
If so, how often?
Which do you choose
a hard or soft option?
(How much do you need?)

In a West End town, a dead end world
the East End boys and West End girls
In a West End town, a dead end world
the East End boys and West End girls
West End girls
West End girls

(How much do you need?)

In a West End town, a dead end world
the East End boys and West End girls
A West End town, a dead end world
East End boys, West End girls
West End girls

You got a heart of glass or a heart of stone?
Just you wait 'til I get you home
We've got no future, we've got no past
Here today, built to last
In every city, in every nation
from Lake Geneva to the Finland station
(How far have you been?)

And a West End town, a dead end world
the East End boys and West End girls
A West End town, a dead end world
East End Boys, West End girls
West End girls

如果要在眾多 Soundtrack 中選出最正的，自己會首選同名電影的 The Crying Game  《哭泣的遊戲》，由 Boy George 主唱，這電影是十分令人感動，當中的 twist 肯定是一絕，道出一段青蛙與蠍子的故事，配上這怨曲，在腦中又是停不了的哼著。

http://hk.myblog.yahoo.com/season-blog/article?mid=131

The Crying Game

I know all there is to know about the crying game
Ive had my share of the crying game

First there are kisses, then there are sighs
And then before you know where you are
Youre sayin goodbye

One day soon Im gonna tell the moon about the crying game
And if he knows maybe hell explain

Why there are heartaches, why there are tears
And what to do to stop feeling blue
When love disappears

I know all there is to know about the crying game
Ive had my share of the crying game

First there are kisses, then there are sighs
And then before you know where you are
Youre sayin goodbye

Dont want no more of the crying game
Dont want no more of the crying game
Dont want no more of the crying game
Dont want no more of the crying game

Love & Ballads The Best Ballade Collection

沒想到自己聽了一整晚 MISIA 的音樂，確實太吸引，雖然這 Album 的所有歌詞也是日文，連一個字也聽不懂，但她的聲線及唱腔好像有股莫明的吸引力，與音樂一起協調出來，根本就沒必要聽懂也十分有感覺，竟然有點衝動想聽她明日的演唱會…

這《難忘的日子》真的聽出耳油，特別是後段…

難忘的日子

夜不成眠都為你

而現實的感覺大多是有點枯燥，而且不時會隱隱作痛，相信只有音樂及電影才能刺激自己，帶來一些不一樣的感覺，給自己一點生存的動力，不過有時也真的想變得麻木。

I wanna be numb
I don't wanna feel this pain no more
Wanna lose touch
I just wanna go and lock the door

而 Pet Shop Boys 的 MV 永遠都是這樣令人著迷，儘管是如此傷感。

Numb

Don't wanna hear the news
What's going on
What's coming through
I don't wanna know
don't wanna know
Just wanna hide away
make my my escape
I want the world
to leave me alone
Feels like I feel too much
I've seen too much
For a little while
I want to forget

I wanna be numb
I don't wanna feel this pain no more
Wanna lose touch
I just wanna go and lock the door
I don't wanna think
I don't wanna feel nothing
I wanna be numb
I just wanna be
wanna be numb

Can't find no space to breathe
World's closing in
right on me now
Well that's how it feels
that's how it feels
Too much light
There's too much sound
Wanna turn it off
Wanna shut it out
I need some relief
Think that I think too much
I've seen too much
There is just too much
thought in my head

I wanna be numb
I don't wanna feel this pain no more
Wanna lose touch
I just wanna go and lock the door
I don't wanna think
I don't wanna feel nothing
I wanna be numb
I just wanna be
wanna be
taken away from all the madness
Need to escape
escape from the pain
I’m out on the edge
about to lose my mind
For a little while
For a little while
I wanna be numb

I don't wanna think
I don't wanna feel nothing
I wanna be numb
I don't wanna feel this pain no more
Wanna lose touch
I just wanna go and lock the door
I don't wanna think
I don't wanna feel nothing
I wanna be numb
I just wanna be
wanna be numb
I just wanna be
wanna be numb

All the madness
I wanna be numb

Before

The telephone's not answered
So many times you'll call
For many different reasons
so many tears will fall
before you find your love
before it comes knocking at your door
before you know for sure
this is what you were waiting for

So many fears will haunt you
deny them or regret
Some men will make you want to
and you will not forget
before you find your love
before it comes knocking at your door
before you know for sure
this is what you were waiting for

There's a story of a man who loved too much
He ended up inside a prison cell
You've got to want to give to get it
or you could land up in the same suspicious hell
It's happened before
It's happened before

Coincidence and patience
will mend this fatal flaw
Though it may seem a long wait
others have been here
before you find your love
before it comes knocking at your door
before you know for sure
this is what you were waiting for

One day when the phone starts ringing
you'll answer to the words you're longing for
No tears, no trade, no prison cell
Whatever you need, he will return more
It's happened before
It's happened before

剛買了 Six Feet Under 的 SoundTrack 回家細聽後，除了自己喜愛的 Title Theme 外，想不到還有意外驚喜，可能就是發現了 Lamb 這組合，聽了 "heaven" 後有點欲罷不能。

"heaven"

soon come soon
sweet so sweet
falling soft
between the sheets

this could be heaven right here on earth
this could be heaven
this could be heaven right here on earth
this could be heaven

please you please
mine be mine
forever
and all time

this could be heaven right here on earth
this could be heaven
this could be heaven right here on earth
this could be heaven

sleep to sleep
sigh on sigh
on a lovers
lullaby

this could be heaven right here on earth
this could be heaven
this could be heaven right here on earth
this could be heaven

this could be heaven
this could be heaven
this could be heaven
this could be
heaven

In deinal

Father:
In denial, no
my life's a trial
I'm not denying
that every little bit hurts
It's a problem
that I'm not solving
Don't mind admitting
I feel like quitting this job
for a while, getting away
before it gets any worse today

Daughter:
You're in denial
and that is final
You're not admitting
you should be quitting all these
queens and fairies
and muscle Marys
the rough trade boyfriend
who in his pathetic own way
denies he's gay
Why can't you see?
This is a fantasy world

Father:
Think I'm going mad
How d'you know if you're going mad?

Daughter:
Look at me I'm lonely

Father:
Look at me I'm sad

I'm not denying
I could be trying
a little harder
to deal with some of this stuff

Daughter:
Know what I'm thinking?
Less drugs and drinking
No cigarettes and you'd feel
a little less rough

Father:
Is that enough?
My life is absurd, I'm living it upside down
like a vampire, working at night, sleeping all day
A dad with a girl who knows he's gay

Daughter:
Can you love me anyway?

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