歌詞和訳 Morrissey – I Know It’s Gonna Happen Someday

92年発表の第3作アルバム Your Arsenal 所収。

I Know It’s Gonna Happen Someday

(Morrissey, Mark E. Nevin)

何ともポジティブな語り掛けに終始する歌。ただ作詞者が作詞者だけにさて額面通り受け取っていいものか。何かに当て付けてんじゃないかとか、ambivalent な効果を持たせてんじゃないかとか、色々と勘繰っちゃう始末。
例えばバンド時代のあの曲を引き合いに、How soon is someday? なーんてツッコんでみたり。
きっと似た様な茶々を入れる者が動画のコメント欄に一人や二人は…

… いなかった…
こんな美しい歌声を聴きながらそんな下衆の勘繰り(ゲスの guess)をする浅ましい奴なんて私くらいしかいなかったみたいでゲス。

NEVIN: Originally the Your Arsenal songs were all mine. He called me up and asked who we should get to produce it. I suggested Mick Ronson. At the time, Mick Ronson hadn’t been seen or heard of for a long time. Morrissey said: “What a great idea, can you get hold of him?” So I put the word out to different people I knew. Then one day Mick Ronson called me from New York: “I hear you want to talk to me about producing Morrissey. What’s he like?” I said: “He’s Morrissey, y’know, The Smiths.” And Mick just went: “What are they like?” He’d never even heard of them. Then he said he was coming to London in a few days, so Morrissey asked if I could get him to come round to my house in Camden the following Friday. A week later, I opened my front door and there was Mick Ronson, looking like he’d been frozen in time since the Ziggy Stardust tour, with this blond mullet. He sat down in my front room, then Morrissey turned up, all quiff and glasses, with [assistant] Peter Hogg. And they just sat on the opposite sofa looking at each other. It was very awkward, but thankfully Peter Hogg was gobby. At one point he turned to Ronson and said: “So Mick, did David ever try to shag ya?” And Mick went: “Bloody tried to a few times. Never bloody succeeded!” I don’t think we even spoke about the record. It was all so bizarre, then somewhere down the line it was arranged that Mick was going to produce it.

これは作曲者ネビンの弁。
彼がアルバムのプロデューサーにミックロンソンを提案、自ら打診。何とロンソンは The Smiths を聴いた事が無かった！が、話し合いの場が設けられる。
モリシ「で、ミック、デイビッド(ボウイ)はあなたとセックスしようとはしたの？」
ロンソン「何度かね。うまくいったためしは無いけどな！」
アルバムの話などはしなかったが、プロデュースは引き受ける運びに(なんでやねん)。

MORRISSEY: He asked me what kind of LP I wanted to make, and I said, “One people would listen to for a very long time,” and he said, “Oh, all right then,” as if I’d asked him to put the cat out.

一人のリスナーが長く聴き続けられるアルバムを、というモリシの要望をロンソンは言下に理解。

NEVIN: I did go to the studio to do “I Know It’s Gonna Happen Someday”, which is credited as being produced by Mick, but he wasn’t there. He had cancer and was undergoing treatment at the hospital, so I did all that with the band. Although there was a very strange moment when Mick did come back and started listening to the song. It got to the end where it’s doing that really obvious “Rock’n’Roll Suicide” rip-off and he looked at me as if to say, “Are you having a laugh?”

本作はロンソンのプロデュースというクレジットになっているものの、Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide のエンディングの流用も含め、実際には全てネビン(とバンド)の手によるもの。
ロンソンは既に癌に侵され病院で処置を受ける身だった。

本アルバムのアマゾンのレビューに、ロンソンが余計な事をしてモリシ曲を台無しにした旨の恨み言があったが、上記作曲者の述懐によればこれは全くのお門違い。

ボウイ曲の一部をモリシ曲にはめ込んだのを一人のリスナーとして嫌うのは自由だが、事実関係ははっきりしておくべき。

MORRISSEY: Mick had zero ego and cared only for the common good – he was without a shred of preciousness given the incredible turns his life had taken. Furthermore, he was blond-haired, blue-eyed handsome – still a shy smile. It struck me how he would have been magnificent for The Smiths’ first LP, but any mention of a top-notch producer and Rough Trade would drop like ’30s TB patients at the thought of having to pay for something.

エゴがゼロなどと言って曲者歌手ですら賛辞を惜しまないのだから、ロンソンは人間としても素晴らしい音楽家だったのだろう。
容姿まで褒めた上で彼がスミスの初LPのプロデューサーでもあったらもっとスゴかっただろうというのも間違い無く本心。ただこのまま話を終えても良さそうなのに、ロンソン称賛の余勢を駆ってバンド時代のレーベル Rough Trade に皮肉を言ってしまうモリシ。曲者の面目躍如。

ロンソンは本作発表の翌93年に死去、享年46。

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93年だからもう相当弱ってた筈。この時ボウイは病魔を知っていたのだろうか。