The Man He Was - Emitt Rhodes

The Man He Was - Emitt Rhodes
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In a village in the woods they plant
在森林的村庄里 人们栽种
A tree for every newborn babe
每棵新树为新生婴孩
So they sowed a seed for a child
他们为名叫约翰的孩子
Named John and they watched it day by day
播下种子 日日守望
The tree it grew in a very strange way as twisted as a knot
那树生长得怪异扭曲 如纠结的绳结
And the child he grew in the very
而那孩子也以同样
Same way and never would his parents have thought
奇特方式成长 父母始料未及
The lad was bright and he learned
少年聪慧且勤学
To read as well as he could talk
他识字如说话般流畅
But his limbs were as twisted as the
但四肢如那棵树般扭曲
Tree and never would he walk
终生未能行走自如
People would come to stop and stare
路人驻足凝望
And you could hear them say
你可听见他们低语
It doesn't seem to me to be
这命运似乎
Quite fair and then be on their way
不太公平 而后匆匆离去
Sing a song of joy lift your hearts in song
唱响欢乐颂歌 让心随歌声飞扬
For a newborn boy for a life that's long
为新生婴孩 为漫长人生
For a life that's long
为漫长人生
Now he loved the tree even
他深爱那棵树
Though it was as twisted as himself
尽管它和自己一样扭曲生长
For somewhere deep inside his soul he thought of nothing else
因在他灵魂深处 只念及此别无他想
And the boy he grew
男孩渐渐长大
Did the best he could but his limbs remained the same
竭尽全力却依然肢体残缺
Well whoever listens who will
且听 愿闻者自会倾听
Understand someone who is lame
试着理解一个跛足的灵魂
Some came to cry and some
有人啜泣 有人嬉笑
Came to laugh the day he passed away
在他离世的那天
He's really not dead
他并未真正逝去
He's just taking a nap I heard somebody say
只是沉沉睡去 我听见有人低语
I can't explain the tree
我无法解释那棵树
Had died it withered without love
因失去挚爱而枯萎
But a stump remains to remind us of the man that he was
但残留的树桩仍在诉说 他曾怎样活过
Sing a song of death sing a song of peace
唱一首死亡之歌 唱一首和平之歌
Sing a song of rest and a song of relief
唱一首安息之歌 唱一首解脱之歌
Till the end of time
直到时间尽头
Till the end of time
直到时间尽头
Till the end of time
直到时间尽头