歌词
When I look back, tracing fingertips over plastic bags
当我回首过往 指尖在塑料袋上随意划过
Thinking, "I wish I could extrapolate some small intention
思索着 "多希望自己可以推断出某些细微的意图
Or maybe get your attention for a minute or two"
或者引起你的注意 哪怕只是一两分钟呢"
Will I die? Or will I get to that ten-year mark?
我会死去吗 或者还能再活十年呢
Where I beat the extinction of telomeres?
抵达那个阶段后 我会阻止端粒的消亡?
And if I do, will you be there with me, Father, Sister, Brother?
如果事实如此 你们还能陪伴我的身旁吗 父亲 妹妹 弟弟?
Charlie, stop smoking
查理 戒烟吧
Caroline, will you be with me?
卡洛琳 你会陪伴在我身旁吗
Will the baby be alright?
宝宝会健康长大吗
Will I have one of mine?
我会拥有我的孩子吗
Can I handle it
就算真的有了
Even if I do?
我能胜任吗
You said that I might
有人说 我的心态
It's not fair or so they said
还不适合
To carry a child
去养育孩子
I guess I'll be fine
我想我可以做好的
It wasn't my idea the cocktail of things that twist neurons inside
鸡尾酒之类的会扭曲脑内的神经元 这并非我的想法
But without them, I'd die
但离了这些 我会死的
They say there's irony in the music, it's a tragedy
他们说音乐含有讽刺意味 便是悲剧
I see nothing Greek in it
我看不出其中的希腊意味
Give me a mausoleum in Rhode Island with Dad, Grandma, Grandpa and Dave
在罗德岛为我修一处陵墓吧 与爸爸 爷爷 奶奶 戴夫安置在一起
Who hung himself real high
戴夫 他葬身于高耸之处 <David Grant 打雷的舅舅 2016年葬身于落基山脉国家公园>
In the National Park sky, it's a shame and I'm crying right now
在那落基山脉高空之处 多么可惜啊 此刻我不禁痛哭
To get to you, save you if I take my life
为了接近你 拯救你 我会不惜牺牲自己
Find your astral body, put it into my eyes
寻找着你的星体 再放入我的眼中
Give you two seconds to cry
给你两秒钟放声痛哭
Take you home, I, I'll give you a blanket
带你回家 我会给你披上毯子
Your spirit can sit and watch TV by my side
你的魂灵可以坐下 陪我一起看电视
'Cause, baby, I ran through a time when I felt you were doing it
因为 挚爱 我仿佛真真切切经历过这一段时光
I couldn't handle it, I was in Monaco
我无法赶到 因为那时我在摩纳哥
I couldn't hear what they said on the telephone
我听不清他们在电话上所说的
I had to sing for the prince in two hours
在两个小时后我就要为王子歌唱
Sat in the shower
独自坐在浴室里
Gave myself two seconds to cry
给自己两秒钟放声痛哭
It's a shame that we die
多么遗憾啊 人皆有一死
When I was fifteen, naked, next-door neighbors did a drive-by
当我15岁时 在泳池里赤身裸体 隔壁的邻居经过这里
Pulled me up by my waist, long hair to the beach side
扶着我的腰肢与长发起身 前往海滩边
I wanted to go out like you, swim with the fishes
我想像你一样出门 与鱼儿作伴畅游
That he caught on Rhode Island beaches
在罗德岛海边将它们尽数俘获
But, sometimes, it's just not your time
但有时 你没遇到合适时机
卡洛琳 是什么样的女人会说我最终还是要进那些机构的
Caroline, what kind of mother was she to say I'd end up in institutions?
我想做的 只有在湖边亲吻着Aaron Greene
All I wanted to do was kiss Aaron Greene and sit by the lake
在他们自制的饮料里拧些酸橙汁水
Twisting lime into the drinks that they made
十六岁便生下了小孩 在那个见证我出生和死亡的小镇
Have a babe at sixteen, the town I was born in and died
Aaron ended up dead and not me
Aaron才是死去的那个 而不是我
Aaron ended up dead and not me
What the ****'s wrong in your head to send me away never to come back
你脑子到底有什么毛病 将我送走却再也不回来
Exotic places and people to take the place of being your child?
在异国他乡 总有人又成为你的孩子
I give myself two seconds to cry
给自己两秒钟放声痛哭
Let it crash over me like
让悲伤肆意地侵袭我
The waves in the sea
就如同海浪般
Call me Aphrodite
称呼我为阿芙罗狄蒂
As they bow down to me
在他们跪拜于我时
Sunbather, moon chaser, queen of empathy
日光浴狂热迷 追月者 共鸣女王
I give myself two seconds to breathe
给自己两秒钟时间呼吸
And go back to being a serene queen
然后继续去做安详女王
I just needed two seconds to be me
我只需要两秒钟去做自己
专辑信息
1.The Grants
2.Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd
3.Sweet
4.Judah Smith Interlude
5.Candy Necklace
6.Jon Batiste Interlude
7.Kintsugi
8.Fingertips
9.Paris, Texas
10.Grandfather please stand on the shoulders of my father while he's deep-sea fishing
11.Let The Light In
12.Margaret
13.Fishtail
14.Peppers
15.Taco Truck x VB