路维的吧台

    我目前好象正处在热爱Light Jazz的阶段。不久前一天在音像店看到了FRANK SINATRA歌曲精选，就让店伙计放来听听。第一首歌就是这首My Way，一下子勾起多年前的回忆。

    上初中的时候，很喜欢收听中央人民广播电台申葆青教授主讲的《星期日英语》。不仅有许多深入浅出的文章，老太太亲和又娓娓动听的讲解，还有许多很经典的英文歌曲。有一次葆青教授就播放了这首My Way，并做了详细讲解。当年我的英语很烂，听不懂讲解，也没记住歌唱家的名字。然而说来奇怪，这首歌旋律乍听再普通不过，我此后也再没有听过，然而它却深深印在脑海里，时常涌出来绕梁，从此就有了挥之不去的My Way 情节。

    不久前一天，在汽车里偶然听到FM广播里法语和阿拉伯语翻唱的My Way，心中立刻兴奋起来。久违了，老朋友，看来你已经飞到世界角角落落了，不知是否已经有了中文版。听说有个日本电影《黄尾蝶》也拿这首歌作插曲，不过我并没有看过。

    夜里，躺在床上反复听着SINATRA的这首歌，细细品味。现在才明白，这原来是歌者在他人生之路将尽时的一次总结。当我们即将告别人生，回首前路，如果欣慰多多，遗憾寥寥，不论是贫富贵贱，只要曾经如自己所愿去做过，生活过，行走过，爱过，笑过，哭过，奋斗过，失败过，不论是否最终如愿以偿，只要不曾委屈自己的性情，就应算是不枉此生了。我忽然明白这曲普通的旋律为何如此让人难以忘怀——因为它恰好地描绘了普通人的理想和生活目的，这就是在一生结束的时候拥有欣慰和安宁，告诉世人：我一生随心所欲，没有窝囊地生活。

    每个人，每天都应该 I do it my way，这样在生命行将划上句号的时候，就可以平静地说：I did it my way.

（写于2005年10月7日。因受垃圾跟贴骚扰，故删掉重贴）

MY WAY

Co-written by Paul Anka & Frank Sinatra
As performed by Frank Sinatra

And now, the end is near, and so I face, the final curtain.
My friend, I'll say it clear,
I'll state my case, of which I'm certain.
I've lived, a life that's full, I've traveled each and every highway.
And more, much more than this,
I did it my way.

Regrets, I've had a few, but then again, too few to mention.
I did, what I had to do, and saw it through, without exemption.
I planned, each charted course, each careful step, along the byway,
and more, much more than this,
I did it my way.

Yes, there were times, I'm sure you knew,
When I bit off, more than I could chew.
But through it all, when there was doubt,
I ate it up, and spit it out.
I faced it all, and I stood tall,
and did it my way.

I've loved, I've laughed and cried,
I've had my fill; my share of losing.
And now, as tears subside, I find it all so amusing.
To think, I did all that, and may I say --- not in a shy way,
"Oh no, oh no not me,
I did it my way".

For what is a man, what has he got?
If not himself, then he has naught.
To say the things, he truly feels,
And not the words, of one who kneels.
The record shows, I took the blows ---
And did it my way!

I did it my way.