train stations & PlayStation上

I put my all into this one special person
我將一切都給了這個特別的人
But in the end it added up to too much hurting
最後卻換來這麼多傷痛
Cursing on the phone and threats that I'd desert him
打電話咒罵威脅說要離開
Our theatrical performance was no longer working
我們間的虛情假意無法繼續
So in the end I just had to close the curtains
於是我只好關上心門
I'm certain things could've gone a better way
我確信事情本會好轉
But if they did who's to say that he'd have never strayed?
但若如此誰能說他絕不背叛？
Anyway, I'm trying to find the ground from which I'll levitate
總之我在試圖尋找能讓自己好受的理由
But pressure weighs my mind and I'm back to square one
壓力囤積在腦海讓我從頭再找
Going 'round in circles, I'm asking 'where's the care gone?'
可毫無進展曾經的關心都去哪兒了?
I swear one thing I know is – you can only rely on yourself when you're hopeless
我發誓我知道一件事絕望時只能靠自己
I know this now but now it's too late
現在知道為時已晚
If I knew this then I wouldn't have made those mistakes
我要是那時知道就不會犯下那些錯
But take the good with the bad
但幸與不幸都要承受
And if the bad overtakes then remember what you had
如果不幸更多請記得曾經擁有的
'cause you, were a part of me
因為你曾是我的一部分
And a part of you's still with me but it's scarring me
你的一部分仍伴我左右但那傷害著我
And a part of me sometimes asks – can't we be?
我有時會問自己難道我們不能重新開始嗎?
But you apart from me
可你離開我了
It's true – I'd rather be
這是事實我寧願分開
'cause you, were a part of me
因為你曾是我的一部分
And a part of you's still with me but it's scarring me
你的一部分仍伴我左右但那傷害著我
And a part of me sometimes asks – can't we be?
我有時會問自己難道我們不能重新開始嗎?
But you apart from me
可你離開我了
It's true – I'd rather be
這是事實我寧願分開
Your eyes and mine – that was what love was
你我的雙眸曾有愛情的影子
But somewhere down the line all the good got cut off
但不知何時所有美好都消失了
Now hearing you rhyme has got me thinking what could've been
現在聽你做詩我不禁想過去還能怎樣
And how you should've seen that you were crushing me
你當初該明白你在折磨我
But in the process you thought that you were loving me
但自始至終你卻認為那是愛
I would've been there for you – you only had to ask
我原會在那兒等候只需你說一聲
But now you're sad 'cause all we had collapsed
現在你為我們分崩離析的過往難過
And now you made the crack a major gap
化裂痕為巨大的缺口
Going crazy mad stating that you want your baby back
發瘋般說想要回昔日的我
I'm just a part of the puzzle in your hazy past
可我不過是你朦朧往事的一個謎
And yeah you made me laugh and times were so beautiful for a while
是你曾令我開懷那段時光非常美好而短暫
I'd wait a whole damn month to see that one station smile
我願等上該死的整整一月來見你在那一站的笑顏
'cause you, were a part of me
因為你曾是我的一部分
And a part of you's still with me but it's scarring me
你的一部分仍伴我左右但那傷害著我
And a part of me sometimes asks – can't we be?
我有時會問自己難道我們不能重新開始嗎?
But you apart from me
可你離開我了
It's true – I'd rather be
這是事實我寧願分開
'cause you, were a part of me
因為你曾是我的一部分
And a part of you's still with me but it's scarring me
你的一部分仍伴我左右但那傷害著我
And a part of me sometimes asks – can't we be?
我有時會問自己難道我們不能重新開始嗎?
But you apart from me
可你離開我了
It's true – I'd rather be
這是事實我寧願分開
So now I'm here and it's been two years but I'm
現在我在這兒因為兩年了我仍
Still unclear – please break it down
不太明白讓我把話挑明
It's been so long – I can't hate you now
好久不見我不恨你了
Hating how I'm back at the same song - the pain ain't gone
只恨我不知怎麼又播到這同一首歌傷痛未曾離開
Asking mary-jane to make me strong
我藉由保持振作
And there's tainted songs that I can't even listen to
有些歌糟得不堪入耳
Train stations, Playstations hold a bit of you
火車站播放站有你的一點影子
And it's crazy – I swear I wasn't missing you
這很瘋狂我發誓沒在想你
Till you came back to remind me what kissing you felt like
直到你回來讓我想起吻你是什麼感覺
And it felt nice
那感覺很好
I should've stopped you first – 'cause when I got with him you got with her
我本該讓你停下因為我們各自有了新歡
It's crazy – I feel lost on earth but when I 've got your words I'm meant to be
這很瘋狂我終究還是感到迷失當我聽見你的話就注定如此
It's stupidity – he's twice the man you'll ever be
這很蠢他比你強千倍
Two times nicer and I know he'd never threaten me
比你好萬倍我知道他絕不會威脅我
Never put me secondly – never ever stressing me the way you did
從來都把我排第一絕不會像你那樣壓迫我
What made you flip? What made you the way you are?
你怎麼變得輕佻變成了現在的樣子?
What made you make me like this?
怎麼讓我變成這樣?
I've hid from love like it's a virus
讓我逃避愛情好比躲避病毒
And now I'm always high look, just like we used to be
現在我總是看著很嗨就像我們過去一起時那樣
Just another reminder of us – of you and me
這讓我又想起我們想起你和我
'cause you, were a part of me
因為你曾是我的一部分
And a part of you's still with me but it's scarring me
你的一部分仍伴我左右但那傷害著我
And a part of me sometimes asks – can't we be?
我有時會問自己難道我們不能重新開始嗎?
But you apart from me
可你離開我了
It's true – I'd rather be
這是事實我寧願分開
'cause you, were a part of me
因為你曾是我的一部分
And a part of you's still with me but it's scarring me
你的一部分仍伴我左右但那傷害著我
And a part of me sometimes asks – can't we be?
我有時會問自己難道我們不能重新開始嗎?
But you apart from me
可你離開我了
It's true – I'd rather be
這是事實我寧願分開
(You are, the most literary jazz face I know. I don't know anybody who is deeper into the literature.)
你是我知道的最精通文學的爵士樂手我不知道其他更深入文學的人
(Well it's because I, you know I came from a very straight laced family.
這是因為我來自一個家教很嚴的家庭
My father was a minister, and he was the uh, uh the cultural and the moral foundation of our entire neighborhood ya know and so we had to,
我父親是牧師他是整個街區文化和道德的砥柱因此我們要
had to uh uh exemplify all the things for which he stood so I had a very, a very straight life, never engaged in any gambling,
要為他弘揚的以身作則所以我過得非常循規蹈矩絕不賭博
we never used any profane language, anywhere near the house,
在家附近的任何地方我們一家絕不出言不遜
there was no alcohol in the house, no smoking,
在家也不能吸煙喝酒
we had to, when we got up in the morning we had to pray, before we went to sleep at night we prayed.
早上起床時,我們要禱告,晚上睡前也要禱告一次
That's the way I grew up so then when I started singing jazz and I had to consort (*laughs*) with these musicians you know,
我是這麼長大的所以當我開始唱爵士我得和那些音樂家廝混
I had to maintain two vocabularies like I couldn't come to the gig and say um 'my wife and I went to a cinema today.
保持兩種風格的用詞像我不能到現場演出我會說我和夫人今天要去看電影
' I would say uh, 'me and my bed-buddy took in a flick' you know (*laughs*)
也可能會說我和床伴要去看片
so I had to maintain these two vocabularies starting very early so it gave me a much more broad s-spectrum of life.)
我得從很早的時候保持這兩種風格,這拓寬了我生活的範圍