The Legend of 1900
1
Why the hell don't you get off?
你为什么不下去？
Just once？One time？
就一次，一次而已
See the world for yourself,with your own eyes?
用自己的眼睛去看看世界
You ever think about it？
你从没想过吗？
You could do anything you wanted to
你能做任何事
People would go crazy for you
人们会为你而疯狂
You could make beaucoup bucks,man
兄弟，你会赚很多钱
Get yourself the finest house
住最好的房子
Get yourself a wife
找个妻子
Why not？
有什么不好？
God knows you can't spend the rest of your life traveling back and forth like some yo-yo
上帝知道你不能把余生变得像悠悠球那样来来回回
The world is out there
世界就在那儿
Nothing but a gangplank to cross
就是一个跳板的距离
And what's a gangplank？A few stupid steps
什么是跳板？就是几步而已
Christ,everything is waiting at the bottom of those steps
天啊，美好的生活就几步而已
Why don‘t you just do it,one time？
为什么不试一下？
Why don't you just get off？
为什么就是不下去？
Why？Why？Why？Why？Why？Why？Why？Why？Why？
为什么为什么？
I think land people waste a lot of time wondering why
陆地上的人浪费太多时间在为什么上
Winter coms and you can't wait for summer
冬天害怕夏天的迟来
Summer comes and you live in dread of winter
夏天担心冬天将至
That’s why you never tired of traveling
这就是为什么你不会厌倦旅行
Always chasing someplace far away where it's always summer
永远在追寻着那永远是夏天的远方
Doesn't sound like a good bet to me
我并不羡慕
2
It wasn't what I saw that stopped me,max
It was what I didn't see
Understand?
What I didn't see
In all that srawling city there was everything except an end
There was no end
What I did not see was where the whole thing came to an end
The end of the world
You take a piano
Keys begin,the keys end
You know there are 88 of them
Nobody can tell you any different
They are not infinite
You are infinite
And on those keys the music that you can make is infinite
I like that
That I can live by
You get me up that gangway
and you roll out in front of me a keyboard of millions and billions of keys that never end
and that's the truth,Max
that they never end
That keyboard is infinite
And if that keyboard is infinite then there is no music you can play
You're sitting on the wrong bench
That's god's piano.
Christ,did you see the streets?Just the streets.
There were thousands of them
How do you do it down there?
How do you choose just one?
One woman,one house,one piece of land to call your own one landscape to look at,one way to die
All that world just weighing down on you
You don't even know where it comes to an end
I mean,aren't you ever just scared of breaking apart at the thought of it?
At the enormity of living it?
I was born on this ship
And the world passed me by
But two thousand people at a time
And there were wishes here
But never more than fit between prow and stern
You played out your happiness but on a piano that was not infinite
I learned to live that way
Land?
Land is a ship too big for me
It's a woman too beautiful
It's a voyage too long,perfume too strong
It's music I don't know how to make
I could never get off this ship
At best,I can step off my life
After all,I don't exist for anyone
Why the hell don't you get off?
你为什么不下去？
Just once？One time？
就一次，一次而已
See the world for yourself,with your own eyes?
用自己的眼睛去看看世界
You ever think about it？
你从没想过吗？
You could do anything you wanted to
你能做任何事
People would go crazy for you
人们会为你而疯狂
You could make beaucoup bucks,man
兄弟，你会赚很多钱
Get yourself the finest house
住最好的房子
Get yourself a wife
找个妻子
Why not？
有什么不好？
God knows you can't spend the rest of your life traveling back and forth like some yo-yo
上帝知道你不能把余生变得像悠悠球那样来来回回
The world is out there
世界就在那儿
Nothing but a gangplank to cross
就是一个跳板的距离
And what's a gangplank？A few stupid steps
什么是跳板？就是几步而已
Christ,everything is waiting at the bottom of those steps
天啊，美好的生活就几步而已
Why don‘t you just do it,one time？
为什么不试一下？
Why don't you just get off？
为什么就是不下去？
Why？Why？Why？Why？Why？Why？Why？Why？Why？
为什么为什么？
I think land people waste a lot of time wondering why
陆地上的人浪费太多时间在为什么上
Winter coms and you can't wait for summer
冬天害怕夏天的迟来
Summer comes and you live in dread of winter
夏天担心冬天将至
That’s why you never tired of traveling
这就是为什么你不会厌倦旅行
Always chasing someplace far away where it's always summer
永远在追寻着那永远是夏天的远方
Doesn't sound like a good bet to me
我并不羡慕
2
It wasn't what I saw that stopped me,max
It was what I didn't see
Understand?
What I didn't see
In all that srawling city there was everything except an end
There was no end
What I did not see was where the whole thing came to an end
The end of the world
You take a piano
Keys begin,the keys end
You know there are 88 of them
Nobody can tell you any different
They are not infinite
You are infinite
And on those keys the music that you can make is infinite
I like that
That I can live by
You get me up that gangway
and you roll out in front of me a keyboard of millions and billions of keys that never end
and that's the truth,Max
that they never end
That keyboard is infinite
And if that keyboard is infinite then there is no music you can play
You're sitting on the wrong bench
That's god's piano.
Christ,did you see the streets?Just the streets.
There were thousands of them
How do you do it down there?
How do you choose just one?
One woman,one house,one piece of land to call your own one landscape to look at,one way to die
All that world just weighing down on you
You don't even know where it comes to an end
I mean,aren't you ever just scared of breaking apart at the thought of it?
At the enormity of living it?
I was born on this ship
And the world passed me by
But two thousand people at a time
And there were wishes here
But never more than fit between prow and stern
You played out your happiness but on a piano that was not infinite
I learned to live that way
Land?
Land is a ship too big for me
It's a woman too beautiful
It's a voyage too long,perfume too strong
It's music I don't know how to make
I could never get off this ship
At best,I can step off my life
After all,I don't exist for anyone
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