Kozmic Blues - 제니스 조플린(Janis Joplin )

 

 

Janis Joplin

 

 

 

제니스 조플린(Janis Joplin )는 1960년대 최고의 블루스 싱어로 흔히 날 것으로 노래하는 듯이 그 명성을 구가하며 전설적인 존재로 남아있지만, 과도한 헤로인 복용으로 27세의 젊은 나이에 세상을 떠나 팝계에 안타까움을 남긴 스타이기도 하다. 영혼을 찢어 놓을 듯한 목소리, 술과 마약, 그리고 노래 블루스 라커의 대명사이던 제니스 조플린이 많은 사람들의 가슴에 가장 솔직한 노래를 남기고 그들의 사랑을 받으면서도 그러나, 제니스는 고독했다. 존재의 가장 근원적인 부분에서부터 고독감을 느끼던 제니스는 20대초반부터 그녀를 사로잡고 놓아주지 않았던 술과 마약과 결별하지 못했다. 제니스가 유명세를 타면 탈수록 그녀의 주변에서 멀어져 가는 인간관계속에서 그녀는 고통스러워 했다.  제니스의 죽음 후 그녀는 락의 전설이 되었다. 그것은 그녀가 남성 중심의 락 세계에서 몇 안되는 여성 라커였기 때문이기도 하였고, 그녀가 삶 속에서 길러낸 노래의 깊이 때문이기도 했다. 제니스 이후 모든 여성 라커의 모범은 제니스가 되었다.

Kozmic Blues

 

 

 

 

Time keeps movin’ on, Friends they turn away. I keep movin’ on But I never found out why I keep pushing so hard the dream, I keep tryin’ to make it right Through another lonely day, whoaa. Dawn has come at last, Twenty-five years, honey just in one night, oh yeah. Well, I’m twenty-five years older now So I know we can’t be right And I’m no better, baby, And I can’t help you no more Than I did when just a girl. Aww, but it don’t make no difference, baby, no, no, And I know that I could always try. It don’t make no difference, baby, yeah, I better hold it now, I better need it, yeah, I better use it till the day I die, whoa. Don’t expect any answers, dear, For I know that they don’t come with age, no, no. Well, ain’t never gonna love you any better, babe. And I’m never gonna love you right, So you’d better take it now, right now. Oh! but it don’t make no difference, babe, hey, And I know that I could always try. There’s a fire inside everyone of us, You’d better need it now, I got to hold it, yeah, I better use it till the day I die. Don’t make no difference, babe, no, no, no, And it never ever will, hey, I wanna talk about a little bit of loving, yeah, I got to hold it, baby, I’m gonna need it now, I’m gonna use it, say, aaaah, Don’t make no difference, babe, yeah, Ah honey, I’d hate to be the one. I said you’re gonna live your life And you’re gonna love your life Or babe, someday you’re gonna have to cry. Yes indeed, yes indeed, yes indeed, Ah, baby, yes indeed. I said you, you’re always gonna hurt me, I said you’re always gonna let me down, I said everywhere, every day, every day And every way, every way. Ah honey won’t you hold on to what’s gonna move. I said it’s gonna disappear when you turn your back. I said you know it ain’t gonna be there When you wanna reach out and grab on. Whoa babe, Whoa babe, Whoa babe, Oh but keep truckin’ on.