The Facts Of Life是同名专辑中最悦耳的一曲。Sarah懒洋洋的半讲半唱,用悲观的角度来形容人生:"No one gets through life without being hurt "。歌曲在以平时的语言讲述一个男孩的成长过程的同时,也在歌曲的最后一节关注到了青少年学生的性话题,而这首歌的主题,却是她的题目“生命之真实”。每个人都是这样过来的,幻想和恋爱,勇气和灰心……,我们排除各种道德戒律和社会观念来看待这些事,发现它就像白水一样似乎毫无意义却又无处不在。
整首音乐是标准的两段式,冷漠的说唱和优美的和声巧妙地结合起来,流行的同时也具有另类的启发。
The Facts Of Life Black Box Recorder
Do do do, do do do
Do do do, do do do
When boys are just eleven and begin to grow in height at a fast rate that they have done before
They develop curiosity and start to fantasize about the things
They have never thought of doing before
His dreams are no more harmful than the usual thoughts
The boys have been becoming football stars and millionaires
As long as their distinction between fantasy and fiction remains
It’s just a nature
It’s just the facts of life
It’s your master plan
What me hopeful of school
I let you hold my hands
You’re getting ideas
And when you sleep at night
They develop into sweet dreams
It’s just the facts of life
A boy expected the telephone, wanted to call a girl
But not daring to because she might say no
At last that someone suck up courage phone
And discover that someone else ask her first
That she said yes
Now it’s time to deal with fear of being rejected
No one gets through life without being hurt
At this point the boy who is listening to the songs
Probably saying it’s easy said than done and it’s true
It’s just the facts of life
It’s your master plan
What me hopeful of school
I let you hold my hands
You’re getting ideas
And when you sleep at night
They develop into sweet dreams
It’s just the facts of life
Do do do, do do do
Do do do, do do do
Small town detain defects from more urban situation
Small house dating differs from more urban situations in particular
If there are few places to go
Adolescents normally gather in a café or an archaic
If they have to almost anywhere would do
A family car and tissues to call mine
A rolling boat or a shed
Experimentation so familiarization and school natural work
It’s just the facts of life
It’s your master plan
What me hopeful of school
I let you hold my hands
You’re getting ideas
And when you sleep at night
They develop into sweet dreams
It’s just the facts of life
Black Box Recorder乐队队员包括Luke Haines,曾当过Jesus And Mary Chain鼓手的John Moore与及女歌手Sarah Nixey。歌曲创作全部出自Luke及John的手笔。
喜欢Black Box Recorder可能是因为他们的那份黑色幽默及对流行乐坛的讽刺。糖衣般的调子、懒洋洋的配乐、美丽性感的女歌声,唱着的竟是一些关于失落、悲观、自杀、甚至乎变态的歌词,对比就像地狱与天堂。无论商业上成功与否,最自得其乐的相信就是Luke Haines这个天使与魔鬼的混合体。
Luke Haines的黑色噪音让人不知不觉地陷入一种微妙、细腻、蜜糖般沉着文静的情趣中去,John Moore唯美而保守的和谐吉他点弦,女歌手Sarah Nixeysarah沉闷疲倦、冷静得有些骇人并固袭默守的嗓音所赋予的特性,标准英式的对于沉着从容而易使人心迷神乱的情节的酿造。