Too Little, Too Late - 릭 에밋 (Rik Emmett )

 

 

    

Rik Emmett

 

 

릭 에밋 (Rik Emmett)은 1953년 캐나다의 토론토 출생으로 록 기타리스트이다. 어릴 때부터 음악수업을 쌓은 그는 액트 쓰리(Act Three)라는 그룹에서 활동하다 건반주자 마이크 레바인, 드러머 길 무어 등과 함께 트리오 메틀그룹 트라이엄프를 결성했다. 그룹 트라이엄프에서 그는 실로 많은 명반들을 제작했는데 그 중에서도 'Allied Force' 앨범은 캐나다의 헤비메틀사 및 록 역사를 통틀어 빛나는 대작으로 평가받고 있다. 그의 연주는 클래식의 정교함과 우아함에서 비롯되는 풍부한 멜로디, 그리고 록의 강렬한 어법이 함께 끈적끈적한 록 블루스와 슬라이드 기타도 연주한다. 그러나 그룹을 탈퇴한 후 솔로로 돌아선 현재에는 록적이라기 보다는 멜로디의 아름다움과 팝적인 센스를 받아들여 듣기 쉬운 음악을 연주하고 있다.
   

Too Little, Too Late 

  

 

Heard you've been calling

comin' around and trying to make nice

well, I still recall my history lesson

when I bouht in to the dream

and I paid out your full asking price

 

now you say just wanna be friendsbut why would

 I went to go making the same mistake twice?

no way to go back

no way to make right all those things that went wrong

 

you wrote the book

it was you who engeaved all those lines that got drawn

well now how can you ask for a show of good faith.

                                    when you know you abused it was all bead and gone?

 

 

don't you recall how you,

                                                         you burned all the bridges

you stood there so proud in the glowing fire

cause -your truth is convenient

 

your memory serves you to twist it

and turn it to feed your desire

now as for me,

I say only a fool

would open the door once again for a thief and a liar

I gotta work my way through this one

 

meanwhile life keeps rollin' on

it's a constant struggle just dealing with fate

so many things taste better than those bitter ashes

that you want to put back on my plate

 

  well, you can just take back all you've

                                                     attached to that fake olive branch

go file it away somewhere under

too little, too late

that's right

 

now hey, just in case you're not getting this straight

don't go preaching forgive and forget

cause all your talk is so cheap

your timing always was weak

on these points there can be no debate

your offer is simply too little, too late