歌词
What is it to be a man?
做一个男人意味着什么？
Is it to be romantic?
意味着浪漫？
Fueling its own nostalgia
以在战斗中赴死之梦
With dreams of death in battle
作自己怀旧之情的燃料
Submitting its body to hard privations
屈从躯体于艰苦的清贫
Gaining the curse of martyrdom
换得殉道之诅咒
Leaving this world in a blind and passionate fashion
以一种盲目而热情的方式离开此世
In the arms of a consuming mistress
死在一个消瘦女郎的怀中
Stupidly jumping off the schlafen berg
愚蠢地从沉睡之山（德语）跳下
Dying on a piano, of an unexpected but inevitable sickness
死在一架钢琴上，死于一种出乎意料却不可避免的疾病
With a still dripping quill in the left hand
左手握着一杆仍在滴墨的羽毛笔
Depicting unbalanced emotions in sheet music
在乐谱上描绘你失衡的情绪
A deforming lens
一个畸变的镜头
Aimed at a small fraction of the human catalogue
聚焦于人类物种中的一个小分支
Or, in the case of our contemporaries
或者说，就我们这一代人而言
Depicting a long over exploited duality between good and evil
描述一种长久以来被过度开发的二元性——善与恶
As if the choice was a puzzling dilemma
就好像善恶之间的抉择是一个令人费解的困境一样
Attacking a God, killed over three centuries ago
攻讦一位三个世纪前就已被杀死的神
Counter facing the camera you borrowed money to pay for
背对着你借钱买的相机
Implying references to esoteric Delphies
引用一些只有小圈子才懂的梗
Creating a non existing mystery around oneself
在自身周围营造一种子虚乌有的神秘感
What is it to be a woman?
做一个女人又意味着什么？
Being sad on a beach,
在沙滩上感伤
A long monologue glorifying impossible loves
一串长独白来美化那些"不可能实现的恋情"
Smoking cigarettes with boredom
透着倦怠，吸着烟
Enacting its own death in a car accident
在一场车祸里饰演自己的死亡
Maybe quit it all at 27
也许在27岁时放弃这一切
Impressing some naive teenagers
打动一些天真的青少年
Who can’t but think that suffering is deep
那些孩子思维尚浅，只能认为，痛苦即深沉
Clearly, there must be some other themes
显然，一定存在一些其他的主题
Who please both to mind and body
能同时取悦精神与肉体
While petitioning for genius and greatness
在祈求天才与伟大的同时
Maybe give a listen to Fauré and Bach
也许去听听佛瑞与巴赫
To the Greeks, Mill, and ironically, the great Goethe
听听希腊诸哲、约翰·穆勒（John Stuart Mill），以及，讽刺地，伟大的歌德是怎么说的
They are all brilliant men who worked hard
他们都是才华横溢的，努力工作的人
… Still, they can’t be placed above manly affairs
但他们不能被置于“男人事务”之上
Because, concerning those, no one ever saw nor heard
因为，关于那些，无人见过也无人听过
They remain interesting as photographs
它们作为照片仍是有趣的
Which depict some of many human features
刻画了诸多人类特性中的一些方面
专辑信息
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