The Blower's Daughter
Artist: Damien Rice
And so it is
Just like you said it would be
Life goes easy on me
Most of the time
And so it is
The shorter story
No love, no glory
No hero in her sky
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes...
And so it is
Just like you said it should be
We'll both forget the breeze
Most of the time
And so it is
The colder water
The blower's daughter
The pupil in denial
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes off you
I can't take my eyes...
Did I say that I loathe you?
Did I say that I want to
Leave it all behind?
I can't take my mind off you
I can't take my mind off you
I can't take my mind off you
I can't take my mind off you
I can't take my mind off you
I can't take my mind...
My mind...my mind...
'Til I find somebody new
據傳，愛爾蘭創作型歌手Damien Rice 這首 The Blower's Daughter 背後，有一個因誤讀而美麗的故事。
早些年Damien Rice工作的時候，在一家公司裡做電話銷售。
沒幹多久，Damien Rice就開始厭倦了電話銷售的工作：他每天就是面對著單調的辦公桌，跟電話另一頭無法見面的客戶講八個小時的電話。
於是，Damien Rice開始試著幻想電話另一頭究竟是怎樣的一張張面孔來排解這無聊的工作。
某天下午，Damien Rice一如既往的在電話裡推銷著公司的產品。很意外的，本該從那頭傳來的中年男子的聲音卻被一個悅耳又甜美的女聲代替了。原來女孩的父親外出不在，她就恰巧接起了電話。Damien Rice被她的聲音吸引，就這樣天南地北的聊了一個多小時。
從那以後，只要女孩的父親不在家，他們就會通過電話聊天。
他們就這樣聊了大概一個月，直到某一天Damien Rice照常撥通了電話，卻沒有任何回應。
隨後的幾天，Damien Rice又嘗試著撥通女生的電話，卻一直沒人接。
Damien Rice找到了那個女生的地址，請了一天的假，決定去那女生的住處弄清楚這是怎麼一回事。
經過幾個小時的車程，Damien Rice來到了女生的住處。由於素未謀面，Damien Rice不敢直接走過去敲門，於是決定在外面等等看。
沒過多久，一個女生就從屋子裡走了出來。那女生一邊往門外走一邊回頭跟家裡人告別。Damien Rice一下就認出了她的聲音，可是出乎意料的是，這個聲音的主人卻是一個穿著校服的初中女生。 她跟他投契地聊這麼久，不過是為了打發漫長夏日。
知道結果後，Damien Rice又憤怒，又委屈。但這件事卻也無法對旁人提起，所有的痛苦與失落只有他自己默默的承受。
幾天後，Damien Rice就辭去了電話銷售的工作，加入了Juniper 樂隊。（Anyway，The Blower's Daughter 作為他的成名曲，為他鋪平前行的路。）
Like many great songwriters, Damien Rice was part of the proletariat before he earned a living in music. Growing up in Kildare County, Ireland, he found himself working at a call center in the late '90s. His job was to cold call households and try to sell them products like insurance and mortgages. As anyone who has engaged a telemarketer in conversation is aware, this is a miserable job and one that requires a bit of mental dissociation. On one of Rice's calls, a woman answered the phone and began such a dialogue.
As Rice told the story when he would introduce the song at concerts, he enjoyed speaking to this lady and became smitten. They spoke for about an hour that day, not about financial products, but about their hopes and dreams, developing quite a rapport by the end of the talk. For months, Rice "followed the lead" by calling her during his shifts, where they would continue their increasingly intimate chats.
Then one day she stopped answering. In these days before the proliferation of the internet, tracking down an unrequited love was more complicated than a Google search, but Rice was determined to find this woman. From his call list, he determined the address associated with the phone number, and he hopped a bus to the residence. He hid in the bushes until the woman emerged, and when she did, she was on her way to school - the woman was just a girl, maybe 16 years old.
Crestfallen, Rice realized that when he had called, she was on summer vacation, and she stopped answering when it was time to return to school. She had been using him for entertainment, and Rice was devastated. "The Blower's Daughter" was the song he wrote about the incident.