随着气温的逐步升高，难耐的夏日不可阻挡地来到我们身边。在漫长又炎热的夏天，动感快歌难免令人躁动不安。然而今天为大家推荐的这首歌曲描述了夏日恋情的热烈却充满了如泉水般涌动的活力，让心情变得舒畅起来。而歌者阳光的外表，超赞的吉他演奏和爽朗的声线都为这首歌加分不少，2011年第53届格莱美音乐奖最佳乡村男歌手——凯斯·厄本(Keith Urban)的 Long Hot Summer（《炎炎长夏》）送给大家。

凯斯·厄本出生于新西兰，6岁时被家人送往澳大利亚学习吉他演奏，得到“蓝调摇滚大团”乐队吉他手林德赛·白金汉和“恐怖海峡”乐队主唱兼吉他手马克·科洛弗的悉心指点，练就一手出色的吉他弹功，并在澳大利亚乡村音乐界获得相当好的成绩。

Long Hot Summer

I can’t sleep

Ain’t no sleep a’coming

I’m just lying here thinking ’bout you

I’m in deep

Falling deep into the picture in my mind of everything we’re gonna do

Over at the lake and down by the river

You can feel it start to rise

Wanna jump in my car,go wherever you are

Cause I need you by my side

It’s gonna be a long,hot summer,we should be together

With your feet up on the dashboard now

Singing along with the radio,it’s such a beautiful sound

And when you say my name in the middle of the day,I swear I see the stars come out

When you hold my hand in the back of my mind,just waiting on the sun to go down,the sun to go down

I wanna see your brown skin shimmer in the sun for the first time

I try to be the one who knows just what to do to you to get me that smile

One chance of meeting,you were walking by me on the street and I said hi

And that was the beginning of my heart spinning like these wheels in my head tonight

......

The only place that I wanna be is where you are

Cause anymore than a heartbeat away is just too far

It’s gonna be a long,hot summer,we should be together

All I really want is more than this moment right now

And when you say my name in the middle of the day,I swear I see the stars come out

And when you hold my hand and I look into your eyes

I swear it looks like you’re waiting for the sun to go down,the sun to go down

I swear it’s like you’re waiting for the sun to go down

Waiting on the sun to go down

Hey,yeah

Oh,I’m loving thinking about you

I can’t sleep,I’m just lying here thinking’bout you.

附：中文歌词

《炎炎长夏》

我无法入睡

丝毫未眠

只是躺着想着你

我越想越深

深深陷入我们将要做的所有事的那些画面穿湖而过，顺河而下

你能感觉到向往的念头愈演愈烈

想马上跳进车里，去任何一个你所在之地因为我需要你陪伴左右

炎炎长夏，我们该腻在一块

此刻，仪表盘上，你正把双脚高高架起

跟着广播哼唱，歌声如此美妙

正午时分，你呼唤着我的名字，我发誓，那一刻我看到了满天的星辰

我隐约感到你握住我的手，耐心等太阳下山，直到太阳下山

渴望看到你棕色的肌肤在阳光下闪闪发亮

我努力成为你生命的唯一，成为知道如何虏获你微笑的人

一次在街上偶遇，你从我身边走过，我说了声“嗨！”

那是一……