...Dust(Album Version)

...Dust (Album Version) - Elvis Costello (埃尔维斯 科斯特洛)

以下歌词翻译由文曲大模型提供

Written By：Elvis Coste

If only dust could talk

若尘埃能开口诉说

What would we hear it say

我们将会听见什么

Before it's brushed aside

在被轻轻拂去之前

Just as it's swept away

当它正随风飘散

It's just the evidence

这不过是些痕迹

It's of no consequence

无足轻重的证据

It's only flesh and bone

不过是血肉之躯

Why don't we leave it alone

何不任其安息

If only dust could gather into lines of chalk

若尘埃能聚成粉笔勾勒的轮廓

Around a silhouette detective fiction walks

让侦探小说般的谜团在此游走

For it's the only witness that can testify

因它是唯一能作证的沉默见证者

Can I spit out the truth

我能否吐露真相

Or would you rather just swallow a lie

抑或你宁愿吞咽谎言

Why did they dam the land

为何他们筑坝截断大地

How did they flood the plain

如何淹没整片平原

Did they erase the name

可曾抹去那姓氏与来处

And wipe away the stain

拭去那污痕

You kept your mouth well shut

你始终缄默不语

Appeared to turn your coat

假装转身易帜

Now there's a name for you but it's stuck in my throat

你的名号卡在我喉间 难以启齿

If dust could only mutter

若尘埃能低语

Or in laughter trill

或轻笑颤鸣

If it could warn and whisper from the windowsill

若它能从窗台发出警示与呢喃

But it's the only witness that can testify

可它只是沉默的见证者 无力作证

Can I split out the truth

我能否吐露真相

Or would you rather just swallow a lie

抑或你宁愿吞咽谎言

Here comes the juggernaut

毁灭者正步步逼近

Here come The Poisoners

投毒者们接踵而至

They choke the life and land

他们扼杀生机与土地

And rob the joy from us

从我们手中掠夺欢愉

Why do they taste of sugar

为何他们尝起来如蜜糖

Oh when they're made of money

当他们浑身沾满铜臭

Here come the Lamb of God

看那神的羔羊降临

And the butcher's boy sonny

屠夫之子紧随其后

If dust could only gather in the needle track

若尘埃能聚于针痕

Then it would skip a beat and it would jump right back

它必会漏跳一拍 又猛然回返

If dust could only gather in a needle track

若尘埃能聚于针痕

Then it would skip a beat

它必会漏跳一拍

And all the sense I lack

而我仍混沌不明