Chip Taylor - Words (Between The Lines Of Age) 2011

　
　英国の音楽雑誌ＭＯＪＯのオマケＣＤにニールヤングの名アルバム『ハーベスト』のカヴァー盤が登場した。このアルバムでラストを飾る曲がコレ。最近ＦＭでこの曲を聴いてぐぐっと昔を想いだしたのだが、これはこれで渋い。 チップ・テイラーはニール・ヤングより一歳年上でカントリーを中心に活躍されている方です。ギターの音色も原曲の変拍子を独自にアレンジしたあたりも秀逸です。

Someone and someone were down by the pond
Looking for something to plant in the lawn.
Out in the fields they were turning the soil
I'm sitting here hoping this water will boil
When I look through the windows and out on the road
They're bringing me presents and saying hello.

Singing words, words between the lines of age.
Words, words between the lines of age.

If I was a junkman selling you cars,
Washing your windows and shining your stars,
Thinking your mind was my own in a dream
What would you wonder and how would it seem?
Living in castles a bit at a time
The King started laughing and talking in rhyme.

Singing words, words between the lines of age.
Singing words, words between the lines of age.

Out in the fields they were turning the soil
I'm sitting here hoping this water will boil
this water will boil, this water will boil
I'm sitting here knowing this water will boil

Singing words, words between the lines of age.
Singing words, words between the lines of age.

　さて"words between the lines of age"とは何か、なかなか難解なところではある。直訳すると歌で何かを語り継ごうということか。なぜ"Singing song"ではないのか"across the line of age"ではないのか、謎の多い曲ではある。