歲月洪通

( 洪通 / 台南縣 北門鄉 南鯤鯓 / 1976 / C.T )


每次看到洪通的照片
就彷彿聽到柯恩正唱著 : Bird on the Wire ...

1976年,我曾在中視的"新聞集錦"中放過這首歌
當時的洪通孤獨地坐在門外悶悶抽菸
然後拖着疲憊的身體在村中行走
喃喃自語 ...

洪通是一隻鳥
他的畫有許多鳥和鳥人
他的孤傲與失落就像這首歌 :





Bird on the Wire (Live) / Leonard Cohen
































































































































































































Like a bird on the wire,
Like a drunk in an old midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free.
Like a worm on a hook,
Like a knight bend down in some old fashioned book
It was the shape of our love that twisted me .
If I have been unkind,
I hope you can find a way to let it all go right on by.
If I have been untrue
it's just that I thought a lover had to be some kind of liar too.

Like a baby, stillborn,
Like a beast with his horn
I have torn everyone who reached out for me.
But I swear by this song
And by all that I have done wrong
I will make it all up to thee.

Don't cry, don't cry, don't cry no more. It's over now, it's over babe, don't cry no more. I say don't cry, don't cry, don't cry anymore. It's over. It's finished. It's completed. It has been paid for.

Like a bird on the wire,
Like a drunk in some old midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free.


" Bird on the Wire " (Live)-- Leonard Cohen