The Songs That We Sing

The Songs That We Sing - Charlotte Gainsbourg (夏洛特·甘斯布)

I saw somebody who

我看见了一个人

Reminded me of you

他让我想起了你

Before you got afraid

在你被恐惧击垮之前

I wish that you could've stayed that way

我希望你不要有任何改变

I saw a little girl

我看见一个小女孩

I stopped and smiled at her

我停下来，对她微笑

She screamed and ran away

她大声尖叫，夺路而逃

It happens to me more and more these days

这样的事情，发生得越来越频繁

And these songs that you sing

你唱的歌

Do they mean anything

是否对听众

To the people you're singing them to

有什么特殊含义

People like you

人们喜欢你

I saw a photograph

我看见一张照片

A woman in a bath

一个女人，赤身裸体

Of hundred dollar bills

被金钱所包围

If the cold doesn't kill her money will

如果她没有死于风寒，金钱会让她丧命

I read a magazine

我读了一本杂志

That said by seventeen

上面说道，十七岁

Your life was at an end

就是你生命的终点

I'm dead and i'm perfectly content

我离开人世，终于获得了永远的安宁

And these songs that i sing

我唱的歌

Do they mean anything

是否对听众

To the people i'm singing them to

有什么特殊含义

People like you

人们喜欢你

And these songs that we sing

我们唱的歌

Do they mean anything

是否对听众

To the people we're singing them to

有什么特殊含义

Tonight they do

今晚，这些歌有特殊含义