私が選んだクリスマスソング二題
♪It Must Have Been Love(Christmas For The Broken Hearted) | Roxette
1990年の映画「プリティ・ウーマン」の挿入歌として世界的にヒットした「It Must Have Been Love(邦題：愛のぬくもり)」として知られているが、それは、再リリースのバージョン。原曲は、1987年12月リリースのクリスマスソングで、目立ったチャートアクションは、母国スウェーデンでのヒット(4位)のみである。5つの異なるバージョンがあり、「プリティ・ウーマン」のサウンドトラック用の再録音では、歌詞中の "and it's a hard Christmas day" のフレーズが "and it's a hard winter's day" に変更されている。
Lay a whisper on my pillow
leave the winter on the ground
I wake up lonely, there's air of silence
in the bedroom and all around
Touch me now
I close my eyes and dream away
It must have been love
but it's over now
It must have been good
but I lost it somehow
It must have been love
but it's over now
From the moment we touched
'til the time had run out
Make-believing we're together
that I'm sheltered by your heart
But in and outside I've turned to water
like a teardrop in your palm
And it's a hard Christmas day
I dream away
It must have been love
but it's over now
it was all that I wanted
now I'm living without
It must have been love
but it's over now
it's where the water flows
it's where the wind blows
it's where the wind blows
It must have been love
but it's over now
it was all that I wanted
now I'm living without.
It must have been love
but it's over now
it's where the water flows ...
♪Fairytale Of New York | The Pogues feat.Kirsty MacColl
邦題：「ニューヨークの夢」。1987年UKチャート最高2位。
成功を夢見てニューヨークへやってきたアイルランド移民の男女の話。一時は成功したが、共に夢破れ、年老いて相手を罵りながらも、実は互いに相手を愛しているという、Shane MacGowanとKirsty MacCollのデュエットによるクリスマスソング。Kirsty MacCollは2000年12月、Shane MacGowanは2023年11月に帰らぬ人となっている。
ある学術サイトの2017年の調査だと、Twitter(現X)上のアンケート「イギリスで一番愛されているクリスマスソング」では、Wham!を抑えて1位になったという。
It was Christmas Eve babe
In the drunk tank
An old man said to me, won't see another one
And then he sang a song
The Rare Old Mountain Dew
I turned my face away
And dreamed about you
Got on a lucky one
Came in eighteen to one
I've got a feeling
This year's for me and you
So happy Christmas
I love you baby
I can see a better time
When all our dreams come true
They've got cars big as bars
They've got rivers of gold
But the wind goes right through you
It's no place for the old
When you first took my hand
On a cold Christmas Eve
You promised me
Broadway was waiting for me
You were handsome
You were pretty
Queen of New York City
When the band finished playing
They howled out for more
Sinatra was swinging,
All the drunks they were singing
We kissed on a corner
Then danced through the night
The boys of the NYPD choir
Were singing "Galway Bay"
And the bells were ringing out
For Christmas day
You're a bum
You're a punk
You're an old slut on junk
Lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed
You scumbag, you maggot
You cheap lousy faggot
Happy Christmas your arse
I pray God it's our last
The boys of the NYPD choir
Still singing "Galway Bay"
And the bells were ringing out
For Christmas day
I could have been someone
Well so could anyone
You took my dreams from me
When I first found you
I kept them with me babe
I put them with my own
Can't make it all alone
I've built my dreams around you
The boys of the NYPD choir
Still singing "Galway Bay"
And the bells are ringing out
For Christmas day
最後に、私が作った80'sクリスマスソングのプレイリストを・・・
1989年はクリスマス用のカセットテープを作ったのですが、大失恋しまして・・・そのテープを元にブラッシュアップしたプレイリスト。
