概念专辑 |
In Praise of Idleness | 《闲散颂》1932年，伯特兰·罗素写下《闲散颂》（In Praise of Idleness）。
他提出了一个简单而又大胆的问题：
如果我们不必把生命的大部分时间用来工作，我们会怎样生活？
八十多年以后，英国社会学家大卫·弗雷恩（David Frayne）在《对工作说“不”》（The Refusal of Work, 2015）一书中，重新走进这个问题。
他没有只讨论理论。
他去采访那些正在尝试改变自己与工作的关系的人——有人离开工作，有人减少工作时间，有人因为疾病停止工作，有人换了一份收入更低却更喜欢的工作，也有人只是想把每天的一点时间重新拿回来。
本张概念专辑从这些真实的访谈出发。
Lucy、Emma、Samantha、Bruce、Matthew、Clive、Larry、Jack、Adam，以及其他书中的人物，成为一首首歌曲的主人公。
每一首歌，都献给其中一个人。
他们不是理论的例子，也不是某种社会运动的英雄。
他们只是一个个具体的人。
有人想多陪陪孩子。
有人想读书。
有人写作。
有人做饭。
有人做手工。
有人照顾动物。
有人提前一个小时下班。
有人从律师变成酒吧里的服务员。
有人不知道怎样回答：
“你是做什么的？”
他们的生活里有快乐，也有羞耻；有自由，也有孤独；有轻松的下午，也有无法解释自己的时刻。
他们只是慢慢发现：
也许生活并不只发生在工作以后。
这不是一张关于“反对工作”的专辑。
它更像是在问：
当一个人把一点时间从工作那里拿回来以后，他会成为怎样的人？
一杯茶。
一本书。
一顿饭。
一只猫。
一个下午。
一次没有目的的散步。
那些没有被写进简历的时间。
那些没有创造任何价值、却依然属于我们的时间。
这张专辑献给他们。
也献给每一个曾经想过：
我能不能少工作一点，
然后多生活一点？
In 1932, Bertrand Russell wrote In Praise of Idleness.
He asked a simple, radical question:
What would we do with our lives if we did not have to spend most of them working?
More than eighty years later, the British sociologist David Frayne returned to this question in his book The Refusal of Work (2015).
But Frayne did not only write about ideas.
He spoke to people who were trying, in different ways, to change their relationship with work. Some left their jobs. Some reduced their hours. Some stopped working because of illness. Some changed to less demanding, lower-paid jobs. Others simply wanted to take back a little time each day.
This album begins with those real conversations.
Lucy, Emma, Samantha, Bruce, Matthew, Clive, Larry, Jack, Adam, and others from Frayne's book become the subjects of these songs.
Each song is dedicated to one of them.
They are not examples of a theory.
They are not heroes of a movement.
They are simply people.
People who want more time with their children.
People who read.
People who write.
People who cook.
People who make things.
People who look after animals.
People who leave work an hour early.
People who leave a career in law for a job behind a bar.
People who do not know how to answer:
“What do you do?”
Their lives contain pleasure and shame, freedom and loneliness, quiet afternoons and difficult questions.
They are slowly discovering something very simple:
Perhaps life does not begin when work is finished.
This is not an album about being against work.
It is about a quieter question:
Who do we become when we take some of our time back from work?
A cup of tea.
A book.
A meal.
A cat.
An afternoon.
A walk with nowhere to go.
The hours that never appear on a CV.
The hours that produce nothing,
and yet belong to us.
This album is dedicated to them.
And to anyone who has ever wondered:
Can I work a little less,
and live a little more?
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Track 01. LucyLucy 是这张专辑献给书中人物的第一首歌。
在 David Frayne 的《The Refusal of Work》中，Lucy 和 Matthew 是一对因为离开全职工作而重新安排生活的年轻伴侣。
Lucy 喜欢读书、做手工、照顾动物，也喜欢那些没有特别目的的日子。
她想要一个家。
她甚至希望有很多孩子。
但这些愿望并不总能得到理解。在一个人的价值常常通过职业、收入和“你是做什么的”来衡量的世界里，Lucy 的生活看起来似乎“不够成功”，甚至让她觉得自己辜负了父母的期待。
可是她只是想要另一种生活。
一种有时间读书、有时间做东西、有时间陪伴所爱之人的生活。
这首歌没有试图替 Lucy 解释什么。
它只是陪她度过一个下午。
Lucy has time.
Lucy is the first song on the album dedicated to one of the people interviewed by David Frayne in The Refusal of Work.
Lucy and Matthew are a young couple who have stepped away from full-time work and begun to live differently.
Lucy reads.
She makes things.
She looks after animals.
She enjoys days with no particular purpose.
She wants a home.
She wants children — many children.
But these desires are not always understood. In a world where a person's worth is often measured by their career, their income, and the answer to “What do you do?”, Lucy's life can look like a failure.
At times, she feels that she has disappointed her parents.
But she wants something very simple:
A life with time to read.
Time to make things.
Time to love.
Time to be.
This song does not try to explain Lucy.
It simply stays with her for an afternoon.
Lucy has time.
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