大碟: No More Shall We Part
歌手: Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
发行: EMI 出版日期: 2001-04
曲目:
01. As I Sat Sadly By Her Side
02. And No More Shall We Part
03. Hallelujah
04. Love Letter
05. Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow
06. God Is IN The House
07. Oh My Lord
08. Sweetheart Come
09. The Sorrowful Wife
10. We Came Along This Road
11. Gates To The Garden
12. Darker With The Day

试听：http://fifseason.51.net/music/nickcave/nickcave.htm

    骤看起来，NickCave就像足一个准备向你家门大闸泼油或在外墙写大字的‘收数佬’，但只要你听过他的音乐，心和神都会突然被摄住。他是一个真真正正的音乐诗人，或许，只有美国的Bob Dylan和加拿大的Leonard Cohen可与这个来自澳洲的才子相提并论。

     经历过十一张大碟之后，NickCave和他的大乐队TheBadSeeds依然维持一种大城市小人物的伤感。这种伤感，遍布在《NoMoreShallWePart》十二首作品，由悠扬的钢琴和诗意的歌词浪漫化。

     四十四岁的NickCave或多或少有着点点的中年危机，戾气变成怨气，但他的怨，还是美不胜收的。

   ‘ As I Sat Sadly By Her Side, At The Window, Through The Glass, - She Stroked A Kitten In Her Lap, And We Watched The World As It Fell Past …… ’ (〈 As I Sat Sadly By Her Side 〉 ) 。 阅历只有令NickCave的文字更具感情也更加感染。

     96年推出的《MurderBallads》，令到NickCave进入主流，也令到KylieMinogue碱鱼翻生，但继翌年的《TheBoatman'sCall》之后，他只一口气推出两张SpokenWord作品，一别五年，《NoMoreShallWePart》几乎可跟《MurderBallads》分庭抗礼，实在是一个惊喜。难得的是，此碟除了是一张Album-oriented的唱片，还有突出的单曲，〈AsISatSadlyByHerSide〉令你心痛了吗？〈DarkerWithTheDay〉更会叫你彻底溶掉。

      王家卫若不是只搜集旧歌，这张唱片实在是个不俗的选择。

All beauty must die

Where The Wild Roses Grow
They call me The Wild Rose
But my name was Elisa Day
Why they call me it I do not know
For my name was Elisa Day
From the first day I saw her I knew she was the one
She stared in my eyes and smiled
For her lips were the colour of the roses
That grew down the river, all bloody and wild
When he knocked on my door and entered the room
My trembling subsided in his sure embrace
He would be my first man, and with a careful hand
He wiped at the tears that ran down my face
Chorus
On the second day I brought her a flower
She was more beautiful than any woman I'd seen
I said, "Do you know where the wild roses grow
So sweet and scarlet and free?"
On the second day he came with a single red rose
Said: "Will you give me your loss and your sorrow"
I nodded my head, as I lay on the bed
He said, "If I show you the roses, will you follow?"
Chorus
On the third day he took me to the river
He showed me the roses and we kissed
And the last thing I heard was a muttered word
As he knelt (stood smiling) above me with a rock in his fist
On the last day I took her where the wild roses grow
And she lay on the bank, the wind light as a thief
And I kissed her goodbye, said, "All beauty must die"
And lent down and planted a rose between her teeth
Chorus