Babel - Peter Hammill

Babel - Peter Hammill
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Words upon words
言语堆叠成塔
Stack the tower of Babel
巴别塔高耸入云
Brick on brick on straw on clay
砖块垒着稻草混着黏土
But a whispering stirs
但低语声渐起
And the structure's unstable
建筑开始摇摇欲坠
When all the scaffold's stripped away
当所有脚手架被拆除
We're ever quick to aver
我们总急于断言
That we are ready and able
自己早已准备充分
But we can't say what's coming come what may
我们无法预言未来 顺其自然吧
By definition self-obsessed
本质上都是自我沉溺
We strive to make ourselves plain
我们竭力表达自我
With words that pass the acid test
用经得起考验的言语
With passive thought in train
带着消极的思绪前行
Words upon words
言语堆积成山
Fiction folly and fable
虚构 愚行与寓言
Each pregnant pause a dead giveaway
每次沉默都泄露天机
Ploughing on undeterred
仍固执地继续前行
As the sell-bys expire on our labels
当标签上的保质期纷纷过期
Though at length we'll have little or nothing to say
尽管最终我们终将无话可说
It would be too absurd
若耗尽一生
To spend life all agaze at our navels -
只顾凝视自己的肚脐 未免太过荒谬
Oh we've got such limited time to go on and explain
我们拥有的时间如此有限 却还要不停解释
So running off at the mouth
于是话语如决堤般倾泻
We all get carried away
我们都曾迷失方向
Uncertain when it all goes south
当一切崩塌时 只剩迷茫
If we mean what we say
若言语发自真心
If we mean what we say
若言语发自真心