声音简介：原来 Lemon Tree背后的故事那么伤感？

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今天跟你们聊的歌应该绝大部分人都听过，记不住词的听到这旋律应该就想起来了。

Lemon Tree was written by German band Fool's Garden in 1994. It was released in more than 40 countries around the world, and has won a dozen different awards.

《Lemon Tree》是德国的愚人花园乐队在1994年12月4日首唱的乡村歌曲。这首听起来很随意的歌却慢慢在全球火了起来。

很多人听旋律以为这是一首很欢快、慵懒的歌，可其实背后的故事可能并不欢乐。

The singer (Peter Freudenthaler) had a French girlfriend who died in a car accident, in which she crashed against a lemon tree.

So there's a urban legend that Peter wrote the song in memory of his girlfriend.

一个广为流传的说法是唱这首歌的Peter Freudenthaler以前有一个法国女朋友，不幸遭遇车祸去世了，而正是撞上了一颗柠檬树。所以Peter写了这首歌缅怀他的女朋友。

如果这个故事是真实的话，这首歌就不难理解了。

Peter唱的是一直没等到她：

I'm sitting here in a boring room

我呆坐在这毫无生气的房间里

It's just another rainy Sunday afternoon

又是一个阴雨绵绵的周日午后

I'm wasting my time I got nothing to do

我空耗着时间无事可做

I'm hanging around I'm waiting for you

我坐立难安四处徘徊，等待着你的到来

But nothing ever happens and I wonder

但你始终没有出现，我感到诧异郁闷

他深陷痛苦：

I'm sitting here I miss the power

我呆坐在这 感觉浑身乏力

I'd like to go out taking a shower

我想出去淋淋雨

But there's a heavy cloud inside my head

但有一片乌云萦绕在我脑海中挥之不去

I feel so tired put myself into bed

我心力交瘁地躺在床上

Well, nothing ever happens and I wonder

你终究未来，只有我一人，我很郁闷

甚至幻想以后是不是能再找到another toy，另一个爱人：

Isolation is not good for me

自我封闭毫无益处

Isolation, I don't want to sit on a lemon tree

我不想如此孤独地坐在柠檬树前

I'm stepping around in the desert of joy

我漫步在快乐的沙洲上

Baby anyhow I'll get another toy

亲爱的无论如何我都可能另寻到他爱

And everything will happen and you'll wonder

那时我所期待的都将发生，郁闷的或许会是你

他还说，

I wonder how I wonder why

我不知所措 我不明所以

Yesterday you told me about the blue blue sky

分明昨天你还与我谈论美丽的天气

And all that I can see is just a yellow lemon tree

但我眼前所见只有一株金黄的柠檬树

Blue sky是很光明向上的，可能意思是他们昨天还在谈着美好未来。

而现在却只剩下一棵lemon tree.

当时看到这个说法重新去听这首歌的时候都感觉想哭，希望这故事不是真实的。

如果这故事不是真的，这首歌的歌词其实也带着苦涩味道。

Lemon tree usually stands for bitterness and sadness as lemon is sour and bitter, and a lemon tree has lots of lemons.

Lemon is also used to describe sad things in the common expression.

For example, "when life gives you lemons...make lemonade," which means, when something bad happens to you, try to make something good out of it.

Lemon柠檬通常是用来形容伤心的事，就像那句很经典的励志名言——

When life gives you lemons...make lemonade.

当生活给了你柠檬，就榨成柠檬汁吧。

意思就是把不好的境况变成好的。

So maybe what the singer sings about is that their love relationship ended because his girlfriend left him. They broke up.

Now he's all depressed but has decided that he must cheer up and find another love.

That’s why he says,

Baby anyhow I'll get another toy

And everything will happen and you wonder

所以也有可能是女友离开了他。尽管昨天他们还畅想blue blue sky 美好未来，现在也只剩下苦涩的一棵lemon tree。自己唱着欢快的旋律，希望能找到another toy代替她。

当然了，最好的情况就是只是Peter在等女友的时候瞎想的这所有，歌词都是幻想的，不是真实的。

你更愿意相信哪一种说法呢？

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