...Dust(Album Version) - Elvis Costello

...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