20240303 Rise Against - Savior

https://youtu.be/e8X3ACToii0?si=sFPKl2vQ6pfKcQKT

 

(가사)

It kills me not to know this
But I've all but just forgotten
What the colour of her eyes were
And her scars or how she got them

 

As the telling signs of age rain down
A single tear is dropping
Through the valleys of an aging face
That this world has forgotten

 

There is no reconciliation
That will put me in my place
And there is no time like the present
To drink these draining seconds

 

But seldom do these words ring true
When I'm constantly failing you
Walls that we just can't break through
Until we disappear

 

So tell me now
If this ain't love then how do we get out?
'Cause I don't know

 

That's when she said
"I don't hate you boy
I just want to save you
While there's still something left to save"
That's when I told her, "I love you girl
But I'm not the answer
For the questions that you still have"

 

And the day pressed on like crushing weights
For no man does it ever wait
Like memories of dying days
That deafen us like hurricanes

 

Bathed in flames we held the brand
Uncurled the fingers in your hand
Pressed into the flesh like sand
Now do you understand?

 

So tell me now
If this ain't love then how do we get out?
'Cause I don't know

 

That's when she said
"I don't hate you boy
I just want to save you
While there's still something left to save"
That's when I told her, "I love you girl
But I'm not the answer
For the questions that you still have"

 

One thousand miles away
There's nothing left to say
But so much left that I don't know
We never had a choice
This world is too much noise
It takes me under
It takes me under once again

 

I don't hate you
I don't hate you, no

 

So tell me now
If this ain't love then how do we get out?
'Cause I don't know

 

That's when she said
"I don't hate you boy
I just want to save you
While there's still something left to save"
That's when I told her, "I love you girl
But I'm not the answer
For the questions that you still have"

 

I don't hate you
I don't hate you
I don't hate you
I don't hate you, no

 

 

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미국의 얼터너티브 락 밴드인 라이즈 어게인스트의 5집, 'Appeal to Reason'의 수록곡이자 명실상부 그들의 최고 히트곡인 'Savior'이다. 미국의 밴드중에서는 그린데이, 오프스프링에 이어 락에 대해서는 거의 찍먹수준인 나도 알정도인 유명한 밴드인데, 유난히 한국에서는 잘 모르는 것같은 밴드라 아쉽다. 음악 외적으로도 소위 바른생활 사나이들로 유명한데, 밴드하면 떠오르는 술, 담배, 마약, 폭력, 문란한 생활들과 거리가 먼 것으로 유명하다.

 

이전에도 한번 언급하였듯, 난 서로다른 노래들을 각기 다른 이유들로 좋아한다.

어떤 노래는 멜로디가, 어떤 노래는 가사의 전체적인 흐름이, 어떤 노래는 가수의 목소리 자체가 좋아서 듣는다

 

이 노래를 내가 좋아하게 된 것은 오직 단 하나의 구절 때문이다. 

 

That's when she said
"I don't hate you boy
I just want to save you
While there's still something left to save"
That's when I told her, "I love you girl
But I'm not the answer
For the questions that you still have"

 

 

이 얼마나 가슴을 울리는 문구란 말인가. 

나를 증오하지 않는, 그러나 그저 나를 구원할뿐인 소녀와

그녀를 사랑하지만, 내가 그녀의 답이 될수 없음을 아는 나의 이야기라니..

 

구구절절히 해석하거나, 나의 구질구질한 경험을 설명하지 않겠다.

언제나 말하듯 모든 경험은 각자에게 다른 것이고, 세상 만물의 가치는 각자가 받아들이기 나름이니.

 

하지만, 적어도 있어서 내겐, 아마 내가 죽는날까지도 잊지 못하는 강한 쐐기돌이 되어 박혀있겠지.

글을 쓰다보니 가슴이 먹먹해진다. 그만 써야겠다.