You're beautiful

My life is brilliant.
My love is pure.
I saw an angel.
Of that I'm sure.
She smiled at me on the subway.
She was with another man.
But I won't lose no sleep on that,
'Cause I've got a plan.

You're beautiful. You're beautiful.
You're beautiful, it's true.
I saw you face in a crowded place,
And I don't know what to do,
'Cause I'll never be with you.

Yeah, she caught my eye,
As we walked on by.
She could see from my face that I was,
Fucking high,
And I don't think that I'll see her again,
But we shared a moment that will last till the end.

You're beautiful. You're beautiful.
You're beautiful, it's true.
I saw you face in a crowded place,
And I don't know what to do,
'Cause I'll never be with you.
You're beautiful. You're beautiful.
You're beautiful, it's true.
There must be an angel with a smile on her face,
When she thought up that I should be with you.
But it's time to face the truth,
I will never be with you

这首歌听了有种说不出的痛楚，很喜欢James Blunt 的嗓音，很独特。想爱却又得不到，这种复杂的心情恐怕只有当事人才能深深体会得到。

下面是有关专辑《Back to Bedlam 》和 James Blunt 的介绍：

艺人：James Blunt
专辑：Back to Bedlam
公司：Atlantic
年代：2005

　摇滚歌手James Blunt是标准的英国本土音乐人，并且不像其他摇滚音乐人一样身世富有传奇色彩，他有一个非常“正统”的少年生涯：上学——读书——成才。在学校，James Blunt学习很好，精于科学和数学，在校期间James Blunt不仅扎实的修读，而且还学会了弹钢琴，并且开始表演钢琴。但是他的音乐生涯并没有从此开启，在他的父亲影响之下，James Blunt参军入伍了，并且在1999年被派往焦点地区科索沃执行维和任务。这些独特的人生体会，一手拿着枪，一手拿着吉他的James Blunt把他们都创作成为了歌曲。作为歌手和歌曲作者，James Blunt的人生轨迹开始转变。《No Bravery》这类的单曲记录了James Blunt在军队，对战争的感悟。当服役期满之后，James Blunt正式以歌手身份步入社会，他组建了一支乐队，并且开始尝试着录制一些作品小样，几个月后他开始着手职业生涯，并在一些音乐演出中引起了关注，其中包括著名音乐制作人Linda Perry。在被签入Linda Perry的个人唱片公司之后，2005年1月，James Blunt的首张个人专辑《Back to Bedlam》正式在英国发行，并逐步引起乐坛的关注，成为了英国乐坛最受欢迎的新兴歌手之一。

英文介绍：

James Blunt’s family have served in one kind of army or another since 995A.D. A long line of warriors. Savages really. Not a musical bone in any one of their bodies. The only music he heard growing up was “Happy Birthday” and “Silent Night”. His father considered all music, even classical, to be unnecessary noise. Although James was not one to rock the family boat, he didn’t really think he was going to join the army – it sort of crept up on him. Plus his family didn’t have a boat. Aged fourteen he just held the teenage conviction that he would have an interesting life – maybe that’s why he picked the guitar? Then again, maybe if he hadn’t, he would have tripped over it. He went to University and studied Aerospace Manufacturing Engineering and Sociology, spending most lectures asleep on the floor at the back. In much the same way, he ended up in the army. In essence, one day he was sleeping off a hangover at the back of a sociology lecture hall and the next thing he knew he was in Kosovo with a gun and a guitar strapped to the side of a tank, wondering who he could possibly sleep with to get out of this war. To break up the super attenuated monotony, James would sometimes stroll through Serb villages wearing an East German cap singing, “All we are saying is give peace a chance”. “We were peace-keepers at that point,” he explained, shrugging helplessly.

So how did the music get into him, you might ask? Well if you were sent to boarding school aged seven, studied Engineering by mistake (“I thought we were going to fly planes, but we just pulled metals apart – the brochure was very misleading.”), joined the army by default, guarded The Queen, buried The Queen Mother and pranced around London like a tit for Japanese tourists to photograph, what you’re going to want to do very much after that, besides getting stoned and laid, is put your gun down, pick up a guitar and make an album in America with Linda Perry. So James came to Los Angeles in September 2003 to record with Tom Rothrock et al. At night he’d go to bars, bringing with him his valuable British accent (in the U.K., too posh for some people – in LA, the best thing she’d heard all night) and the fact that like 50 Cent he’d been shot at numerous times, but unlike the Cent, had dodged the bullets. One song, “Goodbye My Lover”, was recorded in his landladies’ bathroom (“She was a frequenter of mental hospitals and in general, a freak – but pleasant”) where, naturally, she kept a piano.

From birth in a military hospital in Tidworth, to Harrow School, to Aerospace Manufacturing Engineering, to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, to The Household Cavalry, to Kosovo, to Buckingham Palace, to a recording studio in Los Angeles. How did James get from there to here? Only James Blunt’s hairdresser knows for certain, and either he isn’t talking or James cuts his own hair, and it’s up to you to join the dots – there are ten of them on the album.