Visions of Johanna(Live at the Royal Albert Hall， London， UK - May 1966) - Bob Dylan

Visions of Johanna (Live at the Royal Albert Hall, London, UK - May 1966) - Bob Dylan

Ain't it just like the night to play tricks
这不是晚上玩的把戏
When you're tryin' to be so quiet
当你试着这么安静时
We sit here stranded
我们坐在这里
Though we're all doin' our best to deny it
虽然我们都在尽力去否认
And Louise holds a handful of rain
路易斯有少量的雨
Tempting you to defy it
诱惑你，蔑视它
Lights flicker from the opposite loft
灯光闪烁在相反的阁楼
In this room the heat pipes just cough
房间里导热管嘎嘎作响
The country music station plays soft
乡村音乐电台播放着轻音乐
But there's nothing really nothing to turn off
但没有什么 真的没有什么可以关掉
Just Louise and her lover
只有露易丝和她的情人
So entwined
缠绵在一起
And these visions of Johanna
约翰娜的这些异象
That conquer my mind
征服了我的心
In the empty lot where the ladies play
女士们玩的地方
Blindman's bluff with the keychain
盲人和钥匙链玩捉迷藏
And the all night girls they whisper of
整夜里女孩们都在耳语
Escapades out on the "D" train
火车脱轨了
We can hear the night watchman
我们可以听到守夜人
Click his flashlight
敲击着他的手电筒
Ask himself if it's him or them
问他是他还是他们
It's insane
这是疯狂的
Louise she's all right she's just near
路易斯 她很好 她就在附近
She's delicate and seems like the mirror
她脆弱得就像镜子
But she just makes it all too concise and too clear
但她只是使这一切太过简洁清晰了
That Johanna's not here
因为琼安娜不在此地
The ghost of electricity
电力的鬼魂
Howls in the bones of her face
她吼叫着
Where these visions of Johanna
约翰娜的这些异象
Have now taken my place
已经占据了我
Now little boy lost
现在小男孩迷路了
He takes himself so seriously
他这样认真地评价自己
He brags of his misery
他在夸大它的痛苦
He likes to live dangerously
他喜欢危险的生活
And when bringing her name up
当她出生时
He speaks of a farewell kiss to me
对我的告别之吻
He's sure got a lotta gall
他真大胆
To be so useless and all
如此无用
Muttering small talk at the wall
在低声闲聊
While I'm in the hall
当我在大厅里
Oh how can I explain
我怎么解释
It's so hard to get on
所以很难相处
And these visions of Johanna
约翰娜的这些异象
They kept me up past the dawn
他们让我忘记过去
Inside the museums
在博物馆里
Infinity goes up on trial
受审在继续
Voices echo 'This is what
声音回应到这是什么
Salvation must be like after a while'
救赎必须要经过一段时间
But Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues
但是蒙娜丽莎会唱公路蓝调
You can tell by the way she smiles
你可以告诉她微笑
See the primitive wallflower freeze
看原始的壁花纷纷结冰
When the jelly faced women all sneeze
当女性对着果冻打喷嚏时
Hear the one with the mustache say
听到一个有胡子的人说
"Jeeze I can't find my knees"
上帝，我找不到我的膝盖了
Oh jewels and binoculars
珠宝和望远镜
Hang from the head of the mule
挂在骡子头上
But these visions of Johanna
约翰娜的这些异象
They make it all seem so cruel
他们让这一切看起来如此残忍
The peddler now speaks to the countess
现在的小贩对伯爵夫人说
Who's pretending to care for him
谁假装照顾着他
Sayin' "Name me someone that's not a parasite
说给我起名字的人不是一个食客
And I'll go out and say a prayer for him"
我出去为他祈祷
But like Louise always says
但就像路易丝常说的
"You can't look at much can you man "
你不能看太多 你可以吗
As she herself prepares for him
像她自己为他准备的一样
And Madonna she still has not showed
麦当娜 她仍然没有表示
We see this empty cage now corrode
我们现在看到这个空的笼子正在被腐蚀着
Where her cape of the stage once had flowed
戏台的好望角
The fiddler he now steps to the road
小提琴手 他现在正走在路上
He writes every thing's been returned which was owed
他写的每一件事都是他拥有的
On the back of the fish truck that loads
卡车后面满载着鱼
While my conscience explodes
我的良知爆发了
The harmonicas play
口琴说
The skeleton keys and the rain
万能钥匙和雨
And these visions of Johanna
约翰娜的这些异象
Are now all that remain
现在还是以前的样子吗