[COLOR="Navy"]What if she's an angel [I]by Tommy Shane Steiner[/I]
There's a man standing on the corner
With a sign sayin "will work for food"
You know the man
You see him every morning
The one you never give your money to
You can sit there with your window [B][COLOR="darkorange"]rolled up[/COLOR][/B]
Wondering when the lights going to turn green
Never knowing what a couple more [B][COLOR="DarkOrange"]bucks[/COLOR][/B]
In his pocket might mean
What if he's an angel sent here from Heaven
And he's making certain that you're doing your best
To take the time to help one another
Brother, are you going to pass that test
You can go on with your day to day
Trying to forget what you saw in his face
Knowing [B][COLOR="darkorange"]deep down[/COLOR][/B] it could have been his saving grace
What if he's an angel[/COLOR][/CENTER]
[CENTER][COLOR="navy"]There's a man
There's a woman
Living right above you in apartment G
There's a lot of noise coming through the ceiling
And it don't sound like harmony
You can sit there with your TV turned up
While the words and [B][COLOR="darkorange"]his anger fly[/COLOR][/B]
Come tomorrow when you see her with her shades on
Can you look her in the eye
What if she's an angel sent here from heaven
And she's making certain that you're doing your best
To take the time to help one another
Brother, are you going to pass that test
You can go on with your day to day
Trying to forget what you saw in her face
Knowing deep down it could have been her [B][COLOR="darkorange"]saving grace[/COLOR][/B]
What if she's an angel
A little girl on daddy's lap
Hiding her disease with a baseball cap
You can turn the channel
Most people do
But what [B][COLOR="darkorange"]if you were sitting in her daddy's shoes[/COLOR][/B]
Maybe she's an angel
Sent here from Heaven
And she's making certain you're doing your best
To take the time to help one another
Brother,are you going to pass that test?
You can go on with your day to day
Trying to forget what you saw in her face
Knowing deep down it could have been her saving grace
What if she's an angel [/COLOR][/CENTER]
2. [B][COLOR="darkorange"]buck[/COLOR][/B]: 俚語中常用來指代「美元」,例如:make a buck(掙錢);a fast buck(輕易得來的錢,通常指不擇手段得來的);in the bucks(手頭有錢)
3. [B][COLOR="darkorange"]deep down[/COLOR][/B]: 內心深處(這個詞其實被我們天天掛在口邊,例如:「你心裡很清楚,很明白……」就可以表達為「You know deep down that……」
4. [B][COLOR="darkorange"]his anger fly[/COLOR][/B]: 如果想形容「暴怒;怒火中燒」,這句很貼切,也很口語化
5. [COLOR="darkorange"]saving grace[/COLOR]: 上帝的恩典,以此拯救墮落靈魂,例如:He thanked Providence for the savaing grace that had prevented him from utter degradation.(他感謝上帝給了他一次機會,使他免於徹底墮落。)
在歌中,saving grace指「幫助『他』是天使特意賜予你與人為善的機會」
6. [B][COLOR="darkorange"]if you were sitting in her daddy's shoes[/COLOR][/B]: 我們常說的「換位思考」就可以用片語to sit in others' shoes來表達。
這首「What if she's an angel」(《倘若她是天使》),完美地展現了鄉村音樂的純稚和樸實。歌曲採用簡單結構,加上平穩的節奏與敘述性旋律,充分演繹了純樸的西部牛仔風情。歌曲以舒緩的鋼琴為前奏引出主旋律,具有不同音色的班卓琴和提琴伴隨在Steiner的歌聲左右,時隱時現,彷彿正上演著歌手所描述的場景。歌曲最終仍以鋼琴結束,使聽者回味無限,思緒無限。