So over the years,
这几年
a lot of people have asked me to sort of describe
有很多人让我描述
my song writing process from beginning to end.
我从开始到完成一首歌的过程、
How long does it take, where do you write,
写一首歌需要多久、在哪里写歌、
what are the circumstances,
写歌的氛围是怎样的、
do you start with music,
是先从旋律开始
do you start with lyrics,
还是先从歌词开始等等
and my answer is always
而我的答案总是
that it happens differently every time,
每一次写歌的过程都不一样
and that's why I'm still so in love with song writing.
这也是我依然如此热爱写歌的原因。
So what I've done here is shown you three different ,
所以我现在做的就是向你们展示一下三个不同的范例
examples of the beginning stages of these songs
它们是关于这些歌的创作
and how they each started
开始阶段并且
different ways.
每一个都不一样。
So I'll explain them to you
我会解释给你们听，
and maybe that will help you understand kind of
或许能帮助你们理解
how I put songs together
我是怎么写歌的。
I sent this voice memo to Ryan Tedder
我把这段语音备忘发给了Ryan Tedder
because I'd always wanted to work with him,
因为我一直很想和他一起工作，
and finally we scheduled some studio time.
然后我们终于安排好了时间。
So I always wanna be prepared.
我总是希望能在去工作室之前准备好，
I wanted to send him the idea that I was working on
我希望能在去之前
before we went into the studio
发给他我正在酝酿的主意
just in case he wrote back and said "I can't stand that,
以免他回复我说他不喜欢、
I wanna work on something else, think of something else".
他想做些别的点子、想些别的东西之类
So I just sat down with the piano,
所以…嗯…我支好了钢琴，
put my phone on top of the piano
把手机放在钢琴上，
and just kind of explained to him
向他描述我想，
where I wanted to go with the song,
通过这首歌表达的意思
how I saw the melody sitting in
我是如何捕捉到这段旋律的…
and we ended up recording the song the next day
结果是我们第二天就录制了这首歌，
and it ended up being on the record called "I Know Places".
并且被放进了专辑中，这首歌叫I know places。
So this was the voice memo
所以这就是录歌的前一天
I sent to him the night before we ended up finishing the song
晚上我发给他的那段语音备忘：
"""Okay so this is kind of this rough idea thing:"
好的…这是一个未完成的粗浅主意…
Uh-uh-uh-oh, oh-oh-oh-i
啊啊啊哦 哦哦哦 我
Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-i
哦哦哦 哦哦哦 我
Oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-i-i-i
哦哦哦 哦哦哦 我我我
Na na na na waiting at the back door
呐呐呐呐 在后门等候
They're around and the vultures come around
看到他们盘旋在乌云旁
And you know that they they won't us
你知道他们不懂我们
Say what they want 'bout, say what they want 'bout us
他们想说什么就说什么 说他们想说的关于我们
And you come and sing
你来唱
and I would not think about it but I'm not done
我不想我不做
Every know that a thing or two about it,
每人都知道的事儿，
thing or two about it, I
关于我的事
Cause they got the cages, they got the boxes
因为他们有笼子 盒子
And guns
还有枪
They are the hunters we are the foxes
他们是猎人 我们是狐狸
And we run
我们逃跑
Baby, I know places we won't be found
宝贝 我知道一些不会被找到的地方
And they'll be chasing their tails trying to track us down
他们将会一直追逐 他们的尾巴试着追踪我们
Cause I, I know places we can hide
因为我知道可以藏身的地方
I know places, I know places
我知道很多地方 我知道很多地方
Uh-uh-uh-i, uh-uh-uh-i, oh-oh-i, uh-uh-uh-i, no places
啊啊啊我 啊啊啊我 哦哦 我 啊啊啊我 没有地方
Or whatever I don't know,
随便吧…我不知道…
but that's basically just like a dark,
这就是…大概是一个黑暗…
really dark, lyric like bridge thing
十分黑暗的…像李尔王那样的一段 bridge，
and it's about like everyone is trying to
它讲述的是一段每个人都试图闯进、
get into and ruin a love or whatever
破坏的恋情。
and it's like you just,
希望你们会喜欢。
whatever, you know,
无论什么，你知道的，
and the chorus would just go to that major
主要部分会合唱
and just be like ooh chorus.
像这样 哦~ 合唱
So I hope you like it,
所以希望你们喜欢
it wouldn't be...a piano thing, it would be like
这首歌不会是钢琴伴奏的
like...very like beat.
它会是那种有节拍的，
Now I'm just making weird sounds...
好了我现在开始发出奇怪的声音了…
hope you'll like it.
希望你们喜欢这首歌。