エクセルシオール・カフェにて

いつものように近所のエクセルシオール・カフェでお勉強。

店内に流れるＢＧＭもクリスマス・ムードあふれる曲になってきた。なつかしい曲が聴こえてきたので、いい曲だなと思いながらページをめくっているうちに無意識にハミングしていたようだ。

あっ！と思ったときはもう遅く、少し離れた席で本を読んでいた人がけげんそうな顔をしていた。

印象的だった２曲を紹介する。（といっても有名な曲だ。）YouTubeとDailymotionのサイトに２曲ともアップされていた。再生状態のよいほうでお聴きください。

こんなふうに美しいメロディで歌えるようになりたいものだ。

Bette Midler - From a Distance



Mariah Carey - My All



Bette Midler - From a Distance
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x20nyu_bette-midler-from-a-distance_music

Mariah Carey - My All
http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/My+All/video/x9bez_mariah-carey-my-all_music

練習用動画：

From a Distance カラオケ



My Allカラオケ



歌詞：

Bette Midler "From a Distance" (はるか彼方より)

From a distance the world looks blue and green,
and the snow-capped mountains white.
From a distance the ocean meets the stream,
and the eagle takes to flight.

From a distance, there is harmony,
and it echoes through the land.
It's the voice of hope, it's the voice of peace,
it's the voice of every man.

From a distance we all have enough,
and no one is in need.
And there are no guns, no bombs, and no disease,
no hungry mouths to feed.

From a distance we are instruments
marching in a common band.
Playing songs of hope, playing songs of peace.
They're the songs of every man.
God is watching us. God is watching us.
God is watching us from a distance.

From a distance you look like my friend,
even though we are at war.
From a distance I just cannot comprehend
what all this fighting is for.

From a distance there is harmony,
and it echoes through the land.
And it's the hope of hopes, it's the love of loves,
it's the heart of every man.

It's the hope of hopes, it's the love of loves.
This is the song of every man.
And God is watching us, God is watching us,
God is watching us from a distance.
Oh, God is watching us, God is watching.
God is watching us from a distance.

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Artist: Mariah Carey
Album: Ones
Song: My All

I am thinking of you
In my sleepless solitude tonight
If it´s wrong to love you
Then my heart just won´t let me be right
´Cause I´ve drowned in you
And I won´t pull through
Without you by my side

[Chorus:]
I´d give my all to have
Just one more night with you
I´d risk my life to feel
Your body next to mine
´Cause I can´t go on
Living in the memory of our song
I´d give my all for your love tonight

Baby can you feel me
Imagining I´m looking in your eyes
I can see you clearly
Vividly emblazoned in my mind
And yet you´re so far
Like a distant star
I´m wishing on tonight

[Chorus]

Give my all for your love
Tonight