歌词
What good is sitting alone in your room?
一个人待在房间里有什么意思呢？
Come hear the music play
不如来这里听听音乐
Life is a Cabaret old chum
朋友，听我说，生活就像是卡巴莱
Come to the Cabaret
快来卡巴莱坐坐吧
Put down the knitting, the book and the broom
把你手上的针线，书本和扫帚都搁置一边
It's time for a holiday
来这里快活一会儿吧
Life is a Cabaret old trum
朋友，听我说，生活就像是卡巴莱
Come to the Cabaret
快来卡巴莱坐坐吧
Come taste the wine
尝一下我们的好酒
Come hear the band
来听这里的乐队纵情的歌声
Come blow your horn
朝你喜欢的人吹口哨
Start celebrating right this way
如果你想肆意放纵一场，就来这里吧
Your table's waiting
你的位置已为你准备好
What good is permitting some prophet of doom
为什么要让那些整天丧气的人
To wipe every smile away
抹去你的笑颜呢
Life is a Cabaret old trum
朋友，听我说，生活就像是卡巴莱
So come to the Cabaret
快来卡巴莱坐坐吧
I used to have this girlfriend known as Elsie
我曾有个朋友叫埃尔希
With whom I shared
和她在切尔西
Four sordid rooms for Chelsea
租了四间脏乱的房间
She wasn't what you'd call a blushing flower
她可不是你以为的一朵娇羞的花
As a matter of fact, she rented by the hour
其实 她是按小时收费的房东
The day she died, the neighbors came to snicker:
她死的那天，邻居过来嘲讽道：
"Well that's what comes from too much pills and liquor."
“呵，这就是用药过量和酗酒的下场。”
But when I saw her laid out like a queen
我看着她躺着的姿态，像极了一位至死不悔的皇后
She was the happiest corpse I'd ever seen
却觉得她是我见过的最快活的尸体
I think of Elsie to this very day
这天，我又想起了埃尔希
I remember how she'd turn to me and say:
我记得她转头看着我说话的模样：
"What good is sitting all alone in your room?
“一个人整天待在家里有什么意思呢？
Come hear the music play.
不如来这里听听音乐
Life is a Cabaret old trum.
朋友，听我说，生活就像是卡巴莱
Come to the Cabaret!"
快来卡巴莱坐坐吧！”
And as for me, and as for me
埃尔希留我一人在此处，我又何去何从呢
I made my mind up back in Chelsea
我决定留在切尔西
When I go, I'm going like Chelsea
就算我要离开这里，也要像她一样离开（这里Chelsea是Elsie)
Start by admitting from cradle to tomb
就从承认开始吧
It' isn't that long a stay
承认人生苦短须尽欢
Life is a Cabaret old trum
朋友听我说，生活就像是卡巴莱
It's only a Cabaret old trum
生活只是卡巴莱里的一场歌舞表演
And I love a Cabaret
我爱卡巴莱
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