Cabaret(Album Version)

Cabaret (Album Version) - Liza Minnelli

Written by：John Kander/Fred Ebb

What good is sitting alone in your room

独坐在房里有什么好的吗

Come hear the music play

来听音乐演奏吧

Life is a cabaret old chum

人生就像歌厅

Come to the cabaret

快来歌厅吧

Put down the knitting the book and the broom

放下手边的编织 书本和扫帚

It's time for a holiday

该是度假的时候

Life is a cabaret old chum

人生就像歌厅

Come to the cabaret

快来歌厅吧

Come taste the wine

来品尝美酒

Come hear the band

来听乐队演奏

Come blow your horn

来吹响你的号角

Start celebrating

开始庆祝

Right this way your table's waiting

请这边走 有空位正等待着

What good's permitting some prophet of doom

别让命运的先知

To wipe every smile away

擦去你所有的微笑

Life is a cabaret old chum

人生就像歌厅

So come to the cabaret

快来歌厅吧

I used to have this girlfriend known as Elsie

我曾经有个女性朋友 叫做艾尔西

With whom I shared for sordid rooms in Chelsea

我跟她在 切尔西合租了个肮脏的房间

She wasn't what you call a blushing flower

她不是那种大家称之为 会害羞的人

As a matter of fact she rented by the hour

事实上 她按时计酬出租自己

The day she died the neighbors

她死得那天邻居们

Came to snick her

都来窃笑

Well that is what comes from

看吧 那都是

Too much pills and liquor

过量的药物和酒精的后果

But when I saw her laid out like a queen

但当我看到她像个女王般躺在那里

She was the happiest corpse I'd ever seen

她是我所见过 最快乐的尸体

I think of Elsie till this very day

我直到今天都还想着艾尔西

I remember how she'd turned to me and say

我记得她怎样转身对我说

What good is sitting all alone in your room

独坐在房间里有什么好的呢

Come hear the music play

来听音乐演奏吧

Life is a cabaret old chum

人生就像歌厅

Come to the cabaret

快来歌厅吧

And as for me

至于我呢

Ha

And as for me

至于我呢

I made my mind up back in Chelsea

我在切尔西时就下定决心

When I go

当我死去时

I'm going like Elsie

我要像艾尔西那样

Star by admitting

首先就要承认

From cradle to tomb

从摇篮到坟墓

It isn't that long a stay

逗留的时间并不长

Life is a cabaret old chum

人生就像歌厅

It's only a cabaret old chum

人生就像歌厅

And I love a cabaret

而我喜爱歌厅