Starship - We Built This City 1985

　
　私にとってサンフランシスコという街はあまり印象が良くない。それまで長年愛用していたニューヨークのヴィレッジで買ったレザーのハンドメイドのショルダーバックをゴールデンゲートブリッジ近くで置き引きされてしまった経験がある。カギのかかった車内に置いてあったんだけどなぁ。

　この曲は朝のフジテレビのテーマ曲だが、これを聴くといつもそのことを思い出しちゃうんです。６０年代後半のフラワー・ムーブメントを懐かしんだ唄だろうか。

We built this city we built this city on rock an' roll
Built this city we built this city on rock an' roll

Say you don't know me or recognize my face
Say you don't care who goes to that kind of place
Knee deep in the hoopla sinking in your fight
Too many runaways eating up the night

(*)
Marconi plays the mamba listen to the radio
Don't you remember we built this city
We built this city on rock an' roll
We built this city we built this city on rock an' roll
Built this city we built this city on rock an' roll

Someone's always playing corporation games
Who cares they're always changing corporation names
We just want to dance here someone stole the stage
They call us irresponsible write us off the page

(REPEAT *)

It's just another Sunday in a tired old street
Police have got the choke hold oh and we just lost the beat

Who counts the money underneath the bar
Who rides the wrecking ball into our guitars
Don't tell us you need us cause we're just simple fools
Looking for America crawling through your schools

(I'm looking out over that Golden Gate bridge
Out on a gorgeous sunny Saturday I've seen that bumper-to-bumper traffic)

Don't you remember (remember)

(Here's your favorite radio station in your favorite radio city
The city by the bay the city that rocks the city that never sleeps)

(REPEAT *)

hoopla = 大騒ぎ
Marconi plays the mamba = ラジオを発明したGuglielmo Marconiのことを唄ったものと解釈されているようだ。