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She put him out like the burnin' end of a midnight cigarette
She broke his heart he spent his whole life tryin' to forget
We watched him drink his pain away a little at a time
But he never could get drunk enough to get her off his mind
Until the night
He put that bottle to his head and pulled the trigger
And finally drank away her memory
Life is short but this time it was bigger
Than the strength he had to get up off his knees
We found him with his face down in the pillow
With a note that said I'll love her till I die
And when we buried him beneath the willow
The angels sang a whiskey lullaby
The rumors flew but nobody knew how much she blamed herself
For years and years she tried to hide the whiskey on her breath
She finally drank her pain away a little at a time
But she never could get drunk enough to get him off her mind
Until the night
She put that bottle to her head and pulled the trigger
And finally drank away his memory
Life is short but this time it was bigger
Than the strength she had to get up off her knees
We found her with her face down in the pillow
Clinging to his picture for dear life
We laid her next to him beneath the willow
While the angels sang a whiskey lullaby...
我曾经承诺过要好好推荐一下Rascal Flatts这个乐队,但实在一拖再拖。他们来自田纳西州纳什维尔,其音乐乡村风味和流行元素结合得精彩绝妙。
相比起JoJo和Bellefire演绎的《What Hurts The Most》,我更喜欢Rascal Flatts的这个版本。主唱的嗓音熏着经典的味道,高声呼唱中揣挟着一种心碎的力量。即使隔着音响和喇叭,你也能从他们的演绎里仿佛看见一个男人以哀叹悲切的口吻,皱缩眉头的神情在怀恋一段逝去的感情。Rascal Flatts很好地将“hurt the most”的感觉透过声音表达出来,最后的收尾也让人觉得意犹未尽。