歌词
What good is sitting alone in your room?
独坐在房里有什么好处呢
Come hear the music play.
来听音乐演奏吧
Life is a Cabaret, old chum,
人生就像歌厅 老友
Come to the Cabaret.
快来歌厅吧
Put down the knitting,
放下手边的编织
The book and the broom.
书本和扫帚
Time for a holiday.
该是度假的时候了
Life is Cabaret, old chum,
人生就像歌厅 老友
Come to the Cabaret.
快来歌厅吧
Come taste the wine,
来品尝美酒
Come hear the band.
来听乐队演奏
Come blow your horn,
来吹响你的号角
Start celebrating;
开始庆祝
Right this way,
请这边走
Your table's waiting
你的桌子正等待着
No use permitting
别让一些
soem prophet of doom
命运的先知
To wipe every smile away.
擦去你所有的微笑
Life is a Cabaret, old chum,
人生就像歌厅 老友
Come to the Cabaret!
快来歌厅吧
I used to have a girlfriend
我曾经有个女性朋友
known as Elsie
叫做艾尔西
With whom I shared
我跟她在
Four sordid rooms in Chelsea
切尔西合租了四个肮脏的房间
She wasn't what you'd call
她不是那种大家称之为
A blushing flower...
含羞花儿的人
As a matter of fact
事实上
She rented by the hour.
她按时计酬出租自己
The day she died the neighbors
她死得那天邻居们
came to snicker:
都来窃笑
"Well, thats what comes
看吧 那都是
from to much pills and liquor."
过量的药物和酒精的后果
But when I saw her laid out like a Queen
单当我看到她像个女王般躺在那里
She was the happiest...corpse...
她是我所见过
I'd ever seen.
最快乐的尸体
I think of Elsie to this very day.
我直到今天都还想着艾尔西
I'd remember how'd she turn to me and say:
我记得她怎样转身对我说
"What good is sitting alone in your room?
独坐在房间里有什么好处呢
Come hear the music play.
来听音乐演奏吧
Life is a Cabaret, old chum,
人生就像歌厅 老友
Come to the Cabaret."
快来歌厅吧
And as for me,
至于我呢
I made up my mind back in Chelsea,
我在切尔西时就下定决心
When I go, I'm going like Elsie.
当我死去时 我要像艾尔西那样
Start by admitting
首先就要承认
From cradle to tomb
从摇篮到坟墓
Isn't that long a stay.
逗留的时间并不长
Life is a Cabaret, old chum,
人生就像歌厅 老友
Only a Cabaret, old chum,
人生就像歌厅 老友
And I love a Cabaret!
而我喜爱歌厅
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