1993年，31岁的Sheryl Crow推出首张个人专辑“Tuesday Night Music Club”，其中的第三首单曲“All I Wanna Do”出人意料取得巨大成功。勿庸置疑，当年那一首歌，对于这位大器晚成的歌手而言，绝对是颗夺目的幸运之星，帮她跻身世界巨星的行列。凭借它的走红，Sheryl Crow获得1994年度第37届格莱美最佳新人(Best New Artist)，最佳流行女歌手(Best Female Pop Vocal Performance)和年度最佳唱片(Record Of The Year)三项大奖。从此，Sheryl Crow就成了格莱美的常客。
十年前的“All I Wanna Do”，是我所听到的第一首Sheryl Crow歌。还记得当时是在Channel V的MTV 音乐电视里看到的，吴大维特别爱放这个。伴随这段记忆的，还有那些女主持人夸张的V字手势，和她们永世不变的问候语： “大家好。这里是MTV天赖村，我是瞿颖”。
第一眼看见这首歌的MTV，我说的话是：我的老天，丫嘴歪得可真够厉害！
而对歌曲本身感觉是：比较讨巧；摇滚里头带点乡气；红得很走运；听多了就习惯了，还不难听；歌词有意思，对于还没有出过国门年纪尚幼的我来讲，是一幅相当生动的画面，里头有我从来没有接触过有很感兴趣的一坨人物、阶层和他们的生活场景。
多年以后再听这首歌，其中描述的场景对我已经不再陌生，而歌手当年的岁数也跟正在重温老歌的自己比较接近，感受当真不同。不论是从理性上还是感性上，都由于真实和密切而产生了多一些的共鸣。就像前些日子在司令的威逼之下，重读一遍海明威的“The Sun Also Rises”，发现它不但不像我小时候读起来感觉那么烂，甚至是挺不错呢，呵呵。这几天正在重读的《简·爱》也是，当中许多没有打动过我的东西今天震撼着我，其中有些来自历炼，有些来自信仰。
十年改变了听众，也改变了歌手。
2005年，Sheryl Crow推出新专辑“Wildflower”，其同名主打歌曲是她写给自己的男友环法自行车大赛冠军 Lance Armstrong的。据Sheryl自己介绍，这首歌是在表达一种无常的生活状态中，像“Wildflower”般无处不在的、平凡而坚强的人。
这一首民谣摇滚风格的Wildflower，第一次被我听到，就深深地打动了我，用它传达的恬静和包容，宽广而平和的爱意。
时间对一个女人的改变（或者不改变），是很有意思的。
常常观察三、四十岁的女人，挑出那些成熟有底蕴的来喜欢。都已不再是十七、八年华，如若依然大呼小叫上窜下跳，那说严肃了是不够稳重，说俏皮了是老黄瓜刷绿漆不嫩装嫩。不是按照什么规定，而是common sense。就好比一位百岁高龄的老太太，成天披一头长至腰际的头发飘来飘去，那是有点儿吓人喔。
所以我比较瞧不上那些饶老了还思想幼稚的家伙。幼稚，其实是个资本，但它是年轻人的资本。如果能用什么换回这个资本，我本人肯定乐意。换句话说，如果让我能年轻回去，就算让我变得相当幼稚，我也愿意，因为我还没有不真诚到非说自己宁可不再年轻也不愿意放弃所谓的成熟和人生阅历的程度。
其实大多数女人都是如此，在年轻而SB与苍老而睿智之间，一定会毫不犹豫地选择前者（只要别SB到芙蓉JJ那种程度），就算嘴上不肯承认。
而另外一种组合，年轻而睿智，虽然最完美不过，在现实生活中可是少得很，因而不在被选择之列，基本可以忽略不计。
最后一种组合，就是又老又SB了。连青春都已经失去，还没想明白一些基本为人的道理，没具备一些起码的幽默感与平和淡定，那脸上的皱纹可真真是白长了。
听Sheryl Crow十年前后这两首歌，听见一个女人变得越来越温暖。这个，虽然是用青春换来的，还是令人无比欣慰。
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All I Wanna Do
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Hit it!
This ain't no disco
It ain't no country club either
This is LA!
"All I wanna do is have a little fun before I die,"
Says the man next to me out of nowhere
It's apropos
Of nothing
He says his name's William but I'm sure,
He's Bill or Billy or Mac or Buddy
And he's plain ugly to me
And I wonder if he's ever had a day of fun in his whole
life
We are drinking beer at noon on Tuesday
In a bar that faces a giant car wash
The good people of the world are washing their cars
On their lunch break, hosing and scrubbing
As best they can in skirts in suits
They drive their shiny Datsuns and Buicks
Back to the phone company, the record store too
Well, they're nothing like Billy and me, cause
[Chorus]
All I wanna do is have some fun
I got a feeling I'm not the only one
All I wanna do is have some fun
I got a feeling I'm not the only one
All I wanna do is have some fun
Until the sun comes up over Santa Monica Boulevard
I like a good beer buzz early in the morning
And Billy likes to peel the labels
From his bottles of Bud
He shreds them on the bar
Then he lights every match in an oversized pack
Letting each one burn down to his thick fingers
before blowing and cursing them out
And he's watching the bottles of Bud as they spin on
the floor
And a happy couple enters the bar
Dangerously close to one another
The bartender looks up from his want ads
Chorus
Otherwise the bar is ours,
The day and the night and the car wash too
The matches and the Buds and the clean and dirty
cars
The sun and the moon but
Chorus
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Wildflower
Quiet hours
You have always been my wildflower
Showing up wherever beauty's lost its way
Your heart must break
I was free
Until I heard the song you sang to me
Pulling me away from everything I knew
To be with you
And everything I know just fades away
And every time you go it hurts me so
I don't know why WHEN I know we're free
Free to fly
Here we are
Burning faster than the CLOSEST star
Falling back down to the Earth
I love you so it sometimes hurts
Closer still
You will find me standing on the hill
Waiting for you with my arms stretched open wide
Now, come inside
And everything I know just fades away
And every time you go it hurts me so
I don't know why WHEN I know we're free
Free to fly
And everything I know just fades away
And when a wildflower grows it picks its space
And that's the way it is when nature plays its lovely hand
You'll understand everything
Everything, everything
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