The Future (Live in London)
Leonard Cohen
The Future (Live in London) 歌詞
Give me back my broken night
回到那個破碎的夜晚
my mirrored room my secret life
我帶鏡子的房間我隱秘的生活
it's lonely here
這裡孤單極了
there's no one left to torture
已經沒有可以折磨的人
Give me absolute control
讓我完全控制著
over every living soul
每個鮮活的靈魂
And lie beside me baby
躺在我身旁吧,寶貝
that's an order!
這是個命令
Give me crack and anal ***
給我和你的後門
Take the only tree that's left
拿著僅剩的那棵樹
and stuff it up the hole
在你的方式
in your culture
把洞填滿
Give me back the Berlin wall
讓我回到柏林牆
give me Stalin and St Paul
還有和聖保羅
I've seen the future brother
我看過未來,兄弟
it is murder
這是個謀殺
Things are going to slide slide in all directions
一切都將流向遠方
Won't be nothing
不會什麼事情
Nothing you can measure anymore
你都無能為力了
The blizzard the blizzard of the world
暴風雪,漫天的暴風雪
has crossed the threshold
已經破門而入
and it has overturned
並顛覆了
the order of the soul
靈魂的秩序
When they said REPENT REPENT
當他們說悔過,悔過
I wonder what they meant
我不知道他們指什麼
When they said REPENT REPENT
當他們說悔過,悔過
I wonder what they meant
我不知道他們指什麼
When they said REPENT REPENT
當他們說悔過,悔過
I wonder what they meant
我不知道他們指什麼
You don't know me from the wind
你不認識從風中來的我
you never will you never did
以後不會以前也沒有
I'm the little jew
我是那個小猶太人
who wrote the Bible
寫聖經的那個
I've seen the nations rise and fall
我看過的興盛與滅亡
I've heard their stories heard them all
我聽過他們的故事聽過他們的所有
but love's the only engine of survival
但愛是倖存的唯一動力
Your servant here he has been told
你的僕人在這被告知
to say it clear to say it cold
要說的清晰要說的冷漠
It's over it ain't going
這是結局了,再也沒有
any further
什麼以後了
And now the wheels of heaven stop
現在通往天堂的車輪停下
you feel the devil's riding crop
你撫摸魔鬼的馬鞭
Get ready for the future
為未來做準備
it is murder
這是個謀殺
Things are going to slide slide in all directions
一切都將流向遠方
Won't be nothing
不會什麼事情
Nothing you can measure anymore
你都無能為力了
The blizzard the blizzard of the world
暴風雪,漫天的暴風雪
has crossed the threshold
已經破門而入
and it has overturned
並顛覆了
the order of the soul
靈魂的秩序
When they said REPENT REPENT
當他們說悔過,悔過
I wonder what they meant
我不知道他們指什麼
When they said REPENT REPENT
當他們說悔過,悔過
I wonder what they meant
我不知道他們指什麼
When they said REPENT REPENT
當他們說悔過,悔過
I wonder what they meant
我不知道他們指什麼
There'll be the breaking of the ancient
終將毀滅古老的
western code
西方法典
Your private life will suddenly explode
你自己的生活也灰飛煙滅
There'll be phantoms
只剩下幽靈
There'll be fires on the road
和路上的火光
and the white man dancing
而那個白人在跳舞
You'll see a woman
你看見一個女人
hanging upside down
被倒掛起來
her features covered by her fallen gown
她的面貌被垂下的長袍遮蓋
and all the lousy little poets
所有齷齪的小詩人
coming round
都來了
tryin' to sound like Charlie Manson
想讓聲音聽起來像個連環殺人狂
and the white man dancin'
而那個白人在跳舞
Give me back the Berlin wall
回到柏林牆
Give me Stalin and St Paul
還有和聖保羅
Give me Christ
還有耶穌
or give me Hiroshima
廣島也行
Destroy another fetus now
現在毀滅另一個胚胎
We don't like children anyhow
反正我們不喜歡孩子
I've seen the future baby
我看過未來,寶貝
it is murder
這是個謀殺
Things are going to slide slide in all directions
一切都將流向遠方
Won't be nothing
不會什麼事情
Nothing you can measure anymore
你都無能為力了
The blizzard the blizzard of the world
暴風雪,漫天的暴風雪
has crossed the threshold
已經破門而入
and it has overturned
並顛覆了
the order of the soul
靈魂的秩序
When they said REPENT REPENT
當他們說悔過,悔過
I wonder what they meant
我不知道他們指什麼
When they said REPENT REPENT
當他們說悔過,悔過
I wonder what they meant
我不知道他們指什麼
When they said REPENT REPENT
當他們說悔過,悔過
I wonder what they meant
我不知道他們指什麼
When they said REPENT REPENT
當他們說悔過,悔過