Teach Your Children の歌詞を考える

 

Teach Your Children（1970年）

You who are on the road
Must have a code that you can live by
And so become yourself
Because the past is just a good bye.

Teach your children well,
Their father's hell did slowly go by,
And feed them on your dreams
The one they pick's, the one you'll know by.

Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you would cry,
So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.

この曲は多くの示唆に富みます。中学生の頃は親の視点は分からなかった訳ですが、親を40年近くやっていると「hell did slowly go by」じゃないことが分かります。「子育て」って死ぬまで続くのだろうと思います。

過ちを犯す人には子供の頃に愛情を与えられず、人格形成に失敗している人が多い。大事なのは「しつけ」です。やっちゃいけないことを覚えて、社会に順応する方法を身につける必要がある。愛情を持たずにほったらかしたら禽獣の域を脱することはできません。小さい頃の環境は大事だし、人生で出会っていく人たち（邂逅）は大きなモチベーションとなります。

世の中には対人関係がうまくいかない人が多い。学校、職場、社会で対人関係がうまくいかなければ、人生で苦労する可能性が高い。そうなるとコンプレックスが行動の基準となってしまいます。　　

今は世界中で愛情に飢え居場所がない人が多いのだろうと思います。

This song has a lot of implications. When I was in middle school, I didn't understand the parents' point of view, but after almost 40 years of being a father, I know it's not “hell did slowly go by”. I think parenting will continue until I die.

Many people who make mistakes have failed in character development because they were not given love as children. The important thing is discipline. They need to learn what not to do and how to adapt to his or her society. If you leave them alone without affection, they will never get out of the realm of fowl. The environment when you are young is important, and the people you meet in life (encounters) are a great motivator. 

Many people have trouble with interpersonal relationships. If you don't have good interpersonal relationships at school, work, and in society, you are likely to struggle in life. When this happens, the complex(mainly inferior complex) becomes the standard（code）for behavior.

Nowadays, I believe that there are many people in the world who are starved for love and have no place in the world.