소피 헝거(Sophie Hunger)는 1983년 3월 31일 취리히에서 태어난 독일계 스위스인으로 이후 런던에서 성장한다. 그녀는 자신의 노래를 대부분 작사, 작곡하는 싱어송/라이터로서 독특한 성장환경에 영향을 받아 영어, 독일어 그리고 스위스어로 노래한다. 그녀의 음악 스타일은 포크와 블루스를 바탕으로 한 인디팝으로, 특히 그녀가 노래하는 알라만(Aleman)지역 특유의 독일식 억양의 스위스어는 듣는 이로 하여금 음유시인의 노래를 듣는 듯 묘한 매력으로 다가온다. .... ....
They said : "Lady or gentleman You're either or It's morning, it's evening It's once or it's more" What's that name? Eh, what's that name? What's my name again?
Shadow boxing, monologue and we talk and we talk and we talk Shadow boxing, monologue and we walk and we walk and we walk
Scribbling aand coughing a line in the winds So busy with oiling your sandcastle's hinges What's that name yeah what's that name yeah what's my name again? Stamp on the ground and ceiling falls in
Shadow boxing, monologue and we talk and we talk and we talk Shadow boxing, monologue and we walk and we walk and we walk Shadow boxing, monologue and we clean and we clean and we clean Shadow boxing, monologue and we dream and we dream and we dream
And we go down to the beggar, to reach for the queen And it's now and forever, and we are and we seem And we sculpture a statue to worship and bear The chaos that's behind the glass of who and what and who and what we are
School boy heroes a speech in every lip you copy kingdom Newspaper army that pretends to collect the truth Dog in a trap and you try to forget why it's whining While you just decide for your self
Alien neighbor my house doesn't burn if you don't see it Should I wait for a prophet, for a lesson to learn for the good Alien neighbor there's ash on your lawn, you were the savior You would have been at mercy when the winds didn't turn Around, around Round, around
Look at it, don't look at it now Look at it, don't look at it now Look at it, don't look at it now
"The boat is full" I hear us warning as we order french champagne "The boat is full" I hear us yearning "let`s build a fence against the rain" "The boat is full" I hear us turning on a highway made of gold "The boat is full" we`re so concerned and pass a law against the cold
There is someone out there breathing On the top of all our lungs Do you really think we`re easy Because of what we`ve done?
If this is full, then what is empty, Other than our will to live? It this Is full, then what exactly, Have we possibly achieved?
So, is this it? Where we begin they end, they end? So, is this it? Where we begin, They end, they end?
You are the answer, you never talk You have no question, you are a thought You are the answer, you`re shaped and emblazed Through the holes in my cover, you`re something I made You are the answer, my truthful response My final saying when everyone`s gone
You`re my illusion, my pattern of wrong A hollow idol on the tip of my tongue You`re my disgrace, my self-made war And I don`t want to remember faith anymore I`m wasting myself in the name of a fake You were made for me by mistake
I had nothing before, then I had you I was denying, now I refuse I`ve never been young, you`ll never grow old My life`s In my words and my hands they are cold I never made sense but now I disturb I`m bashing my goods against the door of the world
Oh wash away Oh wash away You had nothing to say You were made for me by mistake
My brother is a farmer so you ask him what to do The rain about to harm you, "build a fence" he says to you So build a fence and wonder while you're slowly sinking in About the chief commander suggesting you should swim And that's the very moment when you sto and start to fear: "It's strange in here"
Now the whole place around you is drowing in a flood While the military's aiming at the sky that wouldn't stop My sister is a lawyer so you ask her what to do Your boy's drowned right before you "let me sue" she says to you And that's the very moment when you stop and start to fear: "It's strange in here"
Now the whole city's floating gently towards the sea You're turning to the President "Ah Sir, don't let this be" He chuckles once and chuckles twice and then begins to shout: "Lets bring them clouds to justice, track em down and smoke em out" And that's the very moment when you stop and start to fear: "It's strange in here"
When I was born i felt a tremble in my hand And in short time it started to expend It travelled up my arm and settled in my shoulder From there it filled my chest and scared my heart and took it over Ever since I'm far from sleep I walk the roads at night and weep: "Please, please"
Soon after I would shake from head to toe I left my cardboard house in spite of not knowing where to go I thought I might find silence if I'd move at such fast pace So the shaking would sort of discharge somewhere along the race But the more I walked the more I ran the more things got out of hand God damn!
Under these circumstances it was hard to find a job Let alone to touch someone so I'd given up the thought But then one day I pointed out a figure in the dark Shaking just as much as me so I offered him my heart And now guess what happened, there was an earthquake And the world fell apart
Once she had a dream from which she would awake She feared that if she'd touch the ground her hand would start to shake Nothing ever fades away her kingdom knows no time The kick of any given kick is perfectly designed And she can pull it out any time (that's a bit like singing)
The city that she's living in never would insist On anything of everything, it costs her nothing to exist Freedom, freedom, free - chains are in demand When there is no necessity in using your own hands Well, maybe that's the reason why they're shaking
Now you're banging on her door asking her to step outside "Come on girl, you must awake, go get yoursefl a life!" After enless minutes she answers finally: "maybe you know who you are But still you search for me, craving for the miracles of my uncertainty"
"You have so much, I miss so much, but what you miss is what you have", she says From the outside it's you yelling back: " Oh, don't make me laugh!" When in fact you know she's true. Everything you need out there you need "cause it's not you"
"I'll let you be part of my dream, if I can be part of yours" Bob Dylan said that "I'll let you be part of my dream, if I can be part of your reality"
In the backyard you say Let's have a family In the frontyard, you know Oh don't you, away from me In the papers you saw I'm as free as free can be In your footprints, oh You left no legacy
Round and round and round and round you go Over you are nobod-nobody knew Cause round and round and round and round you go Funny aha Blow-up and blow-and blow-up and blow-up A-yeah-ha-i, to run away-ha Follow and follow and follow i-yeah-yeah, ha-i funny aha Blow-up and blow-and blow-up and blow-up A-yeah-ha-i, to run away-ha Follow and follow and follow i-yeah-yeah, ha-i
In the backyard i saw I saw the family In the front yard, i wrote I wrote on diary In the papers my notes I will i will for eternity Now my footprints, a-oh You are my legacy
Round and round and round and round you go Over you are nobod-nobody-no Cause round and round and round and round you go
You were shot in the head When i thought i was home And i keep throwing you up So i won't feel alone I still hate you around played it all night And i wake you make you make you yeah
You were shot in the head When i thought i was home And i keep throwing you up So i won't be alone I still hate you around played it all nights And i wake you and make you and brake you again
Born on top of a cedar You can't see me But I see whatever You are moving
Can't you put up a ladder Can't you free me? I'm on top of the cedar Waving, screaming
Aaaaaaah
Born on top of a cedar You can't see me But I feel the shiver When you are moving
Can't you put up a ladder Can't you meet me? I'm not holding a treasure I'm waving, screaming
Aaaaaaah
Can I wear your gloves before my hands break off? Can I wear your gloves and then come down? Can I wear your gloves before my hands break off? Can I wear your gloves and then calm down?
Born on top of a cedar I'm watching my breathing It's been almost forever Since I've been feeling
I can't touch you however I can't lean out Stuck on top of this cedar That I have brought up
Let them measure out the room The dimension, the effect Let them formulate the state Of each and every bit Let them price and calculate What and what is not Let them choose and demonstrate What they have and haven’t got
And I say “Oh, woah, I don’t know” “Oh, woah, I don’t know”
If I could open up my chest Pour out of myself And in a corner I should rest Rain there in the shelf Then I’d be soaked up By words of mountaintops To finally have spoken out A line that someone dropped
And I say “Oh, woah, I can know” "Oh, woah, I can know”
xxx xxx xxx xxx Things that I could do See the pawn has the long way home Go
Let them measure out the room The dimension, the effect Let them formulate the state Of each and every bit Let them price and calculate What and what is not Let them choose and demonstrate What they have and haven’t got
And I say “Oh, woah, I don’t know”
Might I then will come right next to you Without the fear of running after Might I talk when I’m talking through Then I'll be faster I'm just supposed to stand with you Ask you for my clothes No more shall I sing for you But no, but no, but no, no, no, no
xxx xxx xxx xxx Things that I could do And the pawn had a long way home 'Cause the pawn wouldn't need to know
In the land with no drainpipes there's a girl with a flute in her throat She's only in bloom whispering by the command of a ghost She dares not to speak knowing tahat this would unfold The lack of a voice, genuinely hers all alone
In the land with no drainpipes again they are switching their seats A new order to what has bored them enough, where's the news?
So she, Sophie, buys herself a skeleton to simply believe That there once was a shape underneath our infinite possibilities
Bring her snowstorms Bring her back to the chain Bring the dictator who is now sleeping in vain
In your distant city lights I tried to read your time at night I tried to find your roof your floor The corners of your mind, the four
And I'll return down to the mines Where you are safe from me And I will stop to burn your house and keep you safe from me
The red flags on your dear facade Wouldn't break the secret to my guards Told me not with which wind to come Refused to tell how and when
I'll return down to the mines Where you are safe from me And I will stop to burn your house and keep you safe from me
How could I so clearly find And have no chance to read your signs Bring me back to your front door And me pretend that I waited for
I wish that you would search the mines And keep them safe from me I wish that you would stop the fire And keep it safe from me - will ich will bi Dir sie
Oh, geschter hasch plotzlech nut meh gseh (Oh, gestern hast du plotzlich nichts mehr gesehen) Und sithar gseht dich au niemmert meh (Und seither sieht dich auch niemand mehr) Oh, geschter isch dr Schpiegel verbroche (Oh, gestern ist der Spiegel zerbrochen) Und sithar bricht dis Gsicht usenand (Und seither bricht dein Gesicht auseinander) ? Ich ? bi nur e Idee vo dir (Ich ? bin nur eine Idee von dir) So wie du sie willsch (So wie du sie willst) Und du ? bisch nur e Idee vo mir (Und du ? bist nur eine Idee von mir) So wie n ich sie bruuch (So wie ich sie brauche) ? Wanns das gabti, hai, wanns das gabti, ware mir immer gliich (Wenn's das gabe, ach, wenn'S das gabe, waren wir immer gleich) Min Dokter seit: Chumm, leg dr Mantel ab (Mein Arzt sagt: Komm, leg den Mantel ab) Und ich sag: Aber drunder han i nut (Und ich sag': Aber drunter habe ich nichts) Min Dokter seit: Chumm, leg dr Mantel ab (Mein Arzt sagt: Komm, leg den Mantel ab) Und ich sag: Aber drunder bin i nut (Und ich sag': Aber drunter bin ich nicht) ? Ich ? bi nur e Idee vo dir So wie du sie willsch Und du ? bisch nur e Idee vo mir So wie n ich sie bruuch ? Wanns das gabti, hai, wanns das gabti, ware mir immer ? allei (Wenn es das gabe, ach, waren wir immer ? allein)
Niemand kommt rein und setzt sich hin Den Fuβ auf'n Tisch, Hand unter's Kinn Niemand ist hungrig, mein Fruhstucksmenu Niemand kommt immer zu fruh Niemand, ich habe Geschenke fur dich Was war ich geworden, gab es dich nicht Meine gesammelten Werke - bitte sehr Alles gehort dir Niemand, niemand kennt mich wie du Unbedingt, ich geb alles zu Keine Enttauschung, kein einziges Mal Aber dir ist eh alles egal Niemand, siehst du's, ich wachse nicht mehr Meine Hande sind Fuβe, Niemand, schau her Bald bin ich nichts und das, was dann Bleibt Ist deine Wenigkeit Niemand, was, was willst du? Immer bist du hier Niemand, was, was willst du? Von mir? Von mir? Von mir?
소피 헝거의 2008년도 데뷔 앨범. 무슨 디카 CF에도 삽입이 되었다는데 그 곡은 내겐 별 감흥이 없었고
대체 어떻게 알게 된 건지 그 기원이 불분명함. 어쨌든 요즘 많이 듣고 있는
여성 싱어송라이터의 앨범 중 하나다. 이 사람 말고도 카리나 라운드, 돈 키너드 등등
이런 스타일의 여성 싱어송라이터들의 음악이 넘 좋다. 가을이라 그런가?
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