音樂｜Autoheart –– Smalltown Boy

Smalltown Boy（來自小鎮的男孩），原唱是Bronski Beat，以快板節奏的鄉村藍調，將男孩離開家鄉的故事快速推演。

幾年前甫接觸同志電影時，意外地觀賞一部（疑似）學生作品By the sea。電影開頭和結尾採用這首歌的另一個版本，來自Autoheart的改編創作（樂團前身名為The Gadsdens）。

​降了巨幅的語調和速度，鋼琴單音貫穿了整首歌和聆聽者的耳膜；主唱緩緩呢喃，一位哀矜哀憐的男孩彷彿在腦海中出現，站在火車月台上，準備離開家鄉⋯⋯這不屬於他的家鄉。

You leave in the morning with everything you own in a little black case.

Alone on a platform, the wind and the rain on a sad and lonely face.

Mother will never understand why you had to leave?

But the answers you seek will never be found at home.

The love that you needwill never be found at home.

Pushed around and kicked around, always a lonely boy.

You were the one that they’d talk about around town as they put you down.

And as hard as they would try, they’d hurt to make you cry.

But you never cried to them, just to your soul. No, you never cried to them,

just to your soul.

Cry～boy～cry⋯⋯

Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away⋯⋯

Run away, turn away, run away, turn away, run away⋯⋯

那天你在晨曦離去，帶著你所僅有的一只小小的黑色手提箱。

你獨自站在月台，風微微吹拂、細雨前來送行，掩飾了你一臉的哀傷孤憐。

你的母親永遠不會理解為何你必須遠遠離去？

你終生尋覓的解答，在名為家的地方是不會找到的。

你渴求的愛的難題，永遠，不會在家找到答案。

迴繞一圈又一圈，繞了好幾回，你總是孤伶一人。

原來你就是，人們總在談論的那個男孩，而他們卻狠狠地將你擊潰。

他們不斷地努力，直到傷透你心，逼你放聲大哭。

但你的淚不能如此贈予，只能歌詠你聖潔的靈魂。

不！你的淚絕不能輕易餽贈，只能，歌頌著你璀璨的靈魂。

可以哭了～男孩～放心地哭吧⋯⋯

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