练习的过程困难重重，从上个月的某一天开始，连续练了17天，然后因为被一些需要整天外出的事情冲突掉，骤然发现自己练得累坏了。过了两天，元气回来了，加上先前听觉上的轰炸，我感觉自己可以试着一口气把这篇“拉谱”给读下来。果然，在我自我封闭了一天之后，我念得比较像样了。终于可以和同学们分享一下困难（难点）在哪里：

困难1：歌词不准确（这是最糟糕的原因！）

学这首歌我去GOOGLE上查找了原版的歌词，当然也对照了国内的版本，后来判断或许原始的资料就有错误，看来没有正版CD就是这点不好（当然，即使是正版CD也未必给你歌词），但这可是我恨不得把谱子给拉长的歌啊，就算照着读跟着唱也已经应接不暇了，歌词错我未必可以反应过来的。直到上百遍听下来还是跟不会的，一个音一个音地停顿，才发现有些词完全错误，或者缺词，或者漏词。作为给广大爱好者参考之用，我现在贴出经我修改的Beautiful歌词（在我的新浪博客“理睿克斯”专题里也已同步修正），若哪位高手认为还是有错误，请不吝指正，在此先谢了。

Beautiful-Eminem

Lately I've been hard to reach
I've been too long on my own
Everybody has a private world
Where they can be alone
Are you calling me, are you trying to get through
Are you reaching out for me, and I'm reaching out for you

I'm just so fu-ckin' depressed
I just can seem to get out this slump（萧条期，低潮状态）
If I could just get over this hump （度过最困难的时期）
But I need something to pull me out this dump （忧郁）
I took my bruises（伤）, took my lumps（金丝鸟病）
Fell down and I got right back up（支持）
But I need that spark to get psyched back up （兴奋起来）
And the right thing for me to pick that mic back up
I don't know how I pry（刺探） away
And I ended up in this position I'm in
I'm starting to feel distant again
So I decided just to beat this pain
Up and tried to make an attempt to vent（肛门）
But I just can't admit
Or come to grips（抓牢）, with the fact that
I may be done with rap
I need a new outlet（发泄途径）
I know some shits so hard to swallow
And I just can't sit back and wallow（颠簸，打滚）
In my own sorrow
But I know one fact
I'll be one tough act to follow
One tough act to follow
Copy
One tough act to follow
Here today, gone tomorrow
But you have to walk a thousand miles

Chorus
Walk my shoes, just to see
What it's like, to be me
All be you, let's trade shoes
Just to see what I'd be like to
Feel your pain, you feel mine
Go inside each other's mind
Just to see what we find
Looking shit through each other's eyes

But don't let 'em say you ain't beautiful OoOo
They can all get fu-cked. Just stay true to you sOoOoo
Don't let 'em say you ain't beautiful OoOo
They can all get fu-cked. Just stay true to you

I think I'm starting to lose my sense of humor
Everything is so tense and gloom（失望，阴暗）
I almost feel like I gotta check the temperature in the room
Just as soon as I walk in
It's like all eyes on me
So I try to avoid any eye contact
Cause if I do that then it opens a door to conversation
Like I want that...
I'm not looking for extra attention
I just want to be just like you
Blend in（与…相协调） with the rest of the room
Maybe just point me to the closest restroom
I don't need no fu-cking man servin'
Tryin to follow me around, and wipe my ass
Laugh at every single joke I crack（开裂，破裂）
And half of them ain't even funny like that
Ahh Marshall, you're so funny man, you should be a comedian, god damn
Unfortunately I am, but I just hide behind the tears of a clown
So why don't you all sit down
Listen to the tale I'm about to tell
Hell, we don't have to trade our shoes
And you don't have to walk no thousand miles

Chorus
Walk my shoes, just to see
What it's like, to be me
All be you, let's trade shoes
Just to see what I'd be like to
Feel your pain, you feel mine
Go inside each other's mind
Just to see what we find
Looking shit through each other's eyes

But don't let 'em say you ain't beautiful OoOo
They can all get fu-cked. Just stay true to you sOoOoo
Don't let 'em say you ain't beautiful OoOo
They can all get fu-cked. Just stay true to you sOoOoo

Nobody asked for life to deal us
With these bullshit hands with doubt
We have to take these cards ourselves
And flip（轻抛） them, don't expect no help
Now I could have either just
Sat on my ass and pissed and moaned（呻吟）
But take this situation in which I'm placed in
And get up and get my own
I was never the type of kid
To wait but I know to unpack（拆包） his bags
As I sat on the porch（门廊） and hoped and prayed
For a dad to show up who never did
I just wanted to fit in
Every single place
Every school I went
I dreamed of being that cool kid
Even if it meant acting stupid
Aunt Edna always told me
Keep making that face till it gets stuck（受骗） like that
Meanwhile I'm just standing there
Holding my tongue up to talk like this
Till I stuck my tongue on the frozen stop sign poll（投票） at 8 years old
I learned my lesson and cause I wasn't tryin to impress my friends no more
But I already told you my whole life story
Not just based on my description
Cause where you see it from where you're sitting
Is probably 110% different
I guess we would have to walk a mile
In each other's shoes, at least
What size you where?
I wear tens
Let's see if you can fit your feet

Chorus
Walk my shoes, just to see
What it's like, to be me
All be you, let's trade shoes
Just to see what I'd be like to
Feel your pain, you feel mine
Go inside each other's mind
Just to see what we find
Looking shit through each other's eyes

But don't let 'em say you ain't beautiful OoOo
They can all get fu-cked. Just stay true to you sOoOoo
Don't let 'em say you ain't beautiful OoOo
They can all get fu-cked. Just stay true to you sOoOoo

Lately I've been hard to reach
I've been too long on my own
Everybody has a private world
Where they can be alone... sOoOoo
Are you calling me, are you trying to get through OoOo
Are you reaching out for me, and I'm reaching out for you sOoOoo Oo Oo

Yea... To my babies. Stay strong. Daddy will be soon
And to the rest of the world, god gave you the shoes
That fit you, so put em on and wear em
And be yourself man, be proud of who you are
Even if it sounds corny（平淡，陈旧，过时）,
Don't ever let no one tell you, you ain't beautiful

困难2：RAP的节奏和其他歌曲有明显的不同。

不得不提起当我第一次在家里唱RAP的时候，我告诉母亲这是对我英语发音的很彻底很赤裸裸的考验。实践证明，经常能把我业余教的学生念烦念疯的VANCA同学这次自己也疯了。连读，略读，还有一些情况要省掉ING里面的G…发音的重重难题把我读出了口腔溃疡呢！然而它因为歌曲的编曲相较简单，因此若是要唱的有魅力，除了发音的抑扬顿挫意外，还需要不疾不徐的节奏加上光靠朗读所表现出的节拍感。初期阶段，我会用筷子敲碗来配合练习，但是嘴上和手上的节奏总是不能统一。其实，RAP真的不是念经，也不是绕口令，更不只是把唱歌的音调简单转化为说话的音调，而是一个复杂的，把原本说话的规则和停顿法则进行全新的组合！相信我，学好一首有水准的RAP，对英语口语会有非凡的好处！因为，我渐渐感受到这股神奇的力量了。

来福士仲夏IN歌会以后，我一直难忘那位唱Business（also by Eminem）的帅哥。后来，搜索了这首歌原唱并放在我新浪博客里做背景音乐挺长时间。当我渐渐敲开RAP的大门时，我才由之前的艳羡变成了一种由衷地钦佩。也许Business是我下一个目标，也许它一直不会是我的目标。就不说别的，光是修改Beautiful的歌词花了我好几天的时间，可见速度，Business抑扬顿挫更多，而且没有唱歌的部分，无法缓冲。人的听力是会疲乏的，对于爱好，看到新鲜事物的外衣以后，会有个苦不堪言的磨合过程。所以，做一件身边没有人在做的事情，需要很大的耐心。

歌会以来，我一直告诉自己，我想成为的是“英语歌达人”。为什么呢？因为当时很多人（也包括我自己）觉得是我没有把歌选好。但是后来我想，这个问题其实是不存在的。我的舞台经验够了么，我的舞台感染力够了么，我的难度达到了么，可能是有人侥幸晋级，但是撇开那些，我深深觉得，如果我还想继续努力下去，我需要尝试更多的风格，首先就是有一颗包容的心，才能有意想不到的进步。

我无法用言语来描述最近我情感上的一些变化，但是明快的主旋律让我又达到了一个新的对英语歌喜爱的新起点。

扯得有点远，回来。给同学们一点小建议，练RAP之前张张嘴，张得要多大有多大。这是第一个准备工作，第二个准备工作就是首先确认歌词是否正确。我就是一开始太相信现成的歌词，所以，在跟读之前，先确保歌词里的每一个单词你都是亲耳听到的。

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