Can It Really Be Years - Kari Bremnes

Living alone in a high little room
独居在高高的小阁楼里
She can see to the street from her window
从窗口能望见街景
She likes it a lot but she just can't imagine it day after day
她深爱这方天地 却难想象日复一日如此
She's waiting to open the boxes of books and to put all the clothes where they should go
等待拆开成箱的书本 将衣衫归置妥当
The walls may be bare but she still can't decide if she's ready to stay
四壁虽空荡 仍未决定是否就此停留
She wants to be open and ready for something to knock on her door
愿敞开心扉 静候机遇来敲门
She's paying the rent but that doesn't keep her from hoping for more
支付着房租 却仍心怀更多期许
You'd say she'd just come but that's not the case
你说她刚来 但事实并非如此
Can it really be years since she came to this place
她来到这个地方 竟已过去这么多年
Going to work on a slow-moving tram
搭乘缓慢的电车去上班
Everyone needs to work for a living
每个人都要为生计奔波
She likes sitting here she can plan she can dream and be taken away
她喜欢坐在这里 可以规划 可以梦想 可以暂时逃离
Being a writer is what she might do if she lived in a world more forgiving
若活在更宽容的世界 她或许能成为作家
She works on a story she works on a book or it could be a play
她写着故事 写着书 也可能是一部剧本
There's someone she knows who knows someone in publishing
她认识的人 认识出版界的人
Maybe she could
或许她可以
She'll call when she's finished the dialogue maybe then maybe he would
等写完这段对白 她就会拨通电话 或许那时他也会回应
She says she will call but at her own pace
她说会主动联系 但总要按自己的节奏
Can it really be years since she came to this place
她来到这个地方 竟已过去这么多年
Waiting for signs and she knows there'll be signs
静候着征兆 她深信预兆终会出现
There'll be omens and so she is waiting
等待着命运示现的蛛丝马迹
It may be tomorrow it may be today but it's happening soon
可能在明天 或许在今朝 转机即将来到
Out in the sunlight and under the streetlight and inside her room she is waiting
阳光下的街角 路灯下的长夜 阁楼里的她始终在等待
Watching the shift in the seasons the wax and the wane of the moon
静观四季更迭 月圆月缺轮回
Watching the text on her mobile he's asking her out for a drink
手机屏幕闪烁 他邀约共饮一杯
She wants to say yes but it's never that easy she needs time to think
欲言又止的犹豫 需要时间细细思忖
And summer is passed and she still doesn't ring
盛夏已过 她仍未拨通电话
Alone in her room can it really be spring
独居高楼 春光可曾真正降临