歌词
I went to Staten Island, Sharon
莎伦，我去了史坦顿岛，
To buy myself a mandolin
给自己买了一把新吉他。
And I saw the long white dress of love
我看见临街店铺的橱窗里，
On a storefront mannequin
展示着象征爱情的白色婚纱。
Big boat chuggin' back with a belly full of cars
回程的渡轮满载着轿车，
All for something lacy
它们都是为婚礼而准备。
Some girl's going to see that dress
女孩们要是看见那条婚裙，
And crave that day like crazy
一定会疯狂幻想那一天的到来。
Little Indian kids on a bridge up in Canada
在遥远北方的加拿大，
They can balance and they can climb
印第安小孩在桥上嬉戏攀爬；
Like their fathers before them
终有一天他们会像自己的父辈那样，
They'll walk the girders of the Manhattan skyline
在曼哈顿的天际线下穿梭忙碌。
Shine your light on me Miss Liberty
自由女神，让你的光芒照耀我吧，
Because as soon as this ferry boat docks
这艘大船马上就要靠岸；
I'm headed to the church to play Bingo
我要去教堂玩宾果，
Fleece me with the gamblers' flocks
让那群赌徒再赚一笔。
I can keep my cool at poker
我能在赌桌上故作镇静，
But I'm a fool when love's at stake
但当爱情来临，我却常常出卖自己。
Because I can't conceal emotion
我无法藏匿自己的情感，
What I'm feeling's always written on my face
喜怒哀乐都被我写在脸上。
There's a gypsy down on Bleecker Street
我听说布里克街上有位占卜的吉普赛人，
I went in to see her as a kind of joke
出于好奇我去见了她，
And she lit a candle for my love luck
她为我的爱情命运点了一支蜡烛，
And eighteen bucks went up in smoke
火光燃尽，十八美金就这样化作黑烟。
Sharon I left my man
莎伦，在北达科他路口，
At a North Dakota junction
我离开了我的男人。
And I came out to the "Big Apple" here
独自一人来到了纽约城，
To face the dream's malfunction
我必须承受现实与梦想的落差。
Love's a repetitious danger
爱情带给我们反复无常的危险，
You'd think I'd be accustomed to
我想你大概已经习惯；
Well I do accept the changes
比起曾经，
At least better than I used to do
我现在更懂得接受改变。
A woman I knew just drowned herself
我认识的一个女人自尽了，
The well was deep and muddy
她跳下的那口井又深又泥泞；
She was just shaking off futility
我想，她只是为了摆脱生活的虚无，
Or punishing somebody
或是报复某人。
My friends were calling up all day yesterday
我的朋友们昨天打了一天的电话，
All emotions and abstractions
彼此诉说着情感到出神，
It seems we all live so close to that line
似乎我们每人离生命的底线都那么近，
and so far from satisfaction
离对人生的满足都那么远。
Dora says "Have children"
朵拉劝我，生个孩子吧，
Mama and Betsy say "Find yourself a charity”
妈妈和贝茜说，给自己找个慈善做；
Help the needy and the crippled or put some time into Ecology"
去帮助那些有需要和有残疾的人，至少你的时间没因此浪费。
Well there's a wide wide world of noble causes
这个世界上有如此多的崇高事业值得我去献身，
And lovely landscapes to discover
以及无数的美丽风景值得我去发现，
But all I really want to do right now
但我此时此刻只渴望
Is find another lover
找到另一份真爱。
When we were kids in Maidstone, Sharon
莎伦，你记得当我们在梅德斯通一起长大时，
I went to every wedding in that little town
我会去小镇上的每一场婚礼。
To see the tears and the kisses
我沉醉于那些幸福的吻和泪，
And the pretty lady in the white lace wedding gown
羡慕那些穿着婚纱的美丽新娘。
And walking home on the railroad tracks
沿着铁路走回家时，
Or swinging on the playground swing
或是在操场上荡秋千时，
Love stimulated my illusions
爱情总是令我陷入幻想，
More than anything
这种渴望比任何情感都要强烈。
And when I went skating after Golden Reggie
当棒球赛结束，我们一起去滑冰，
You know it was white lace I was chasing
在湖面上，我追逐着那些冰刀留下的白色印记，
Chasing dreams
追逐着我的梦想。
Mama's nylons underneath my cowgirl jeans
厚重的牛仔裤下是我妈妈的尼龙长袜。
He showed me first you get the kisses
男孩向我表演与你亲吻
And then you get the tears
随后你流下了眼泪。
But the ceremony of the bells and lace
但这场满是铃铛和冰鞋的婚礼游戏，
Still veils this reckless fool here
仍把我这个激动的单纯女孩蒙在鼓里。
Now there are twenty-nine skaters on Wollman Rink
此时此刻，沃尔曼冰场上有二十九个人在滑冰，
Circling in singles and in pairs
他们或是独自一人，或是陪着爱侣，正绕着冰场兜圈子。
In this vigorous anonymity
在这幅生机勃勃的画面里，
A blank face at the window stares and
一副苍白的面孔正透过窗户，
stares and stares and stares and stares
面无表情地盯着冰场上的人群。
And the power of reason
这是理性的力量，
And the flowers of deep feeling
这是深思的结果，
Seem to serve me
我虽然这样安慰自己，
Only to deceive me
但这其实只是我的自我欺骗。
Sharon you've got a husband
莎伦，你有了丈夫，
And a family and a farm
有了家庭，还有一座农场。
I've got the apple of temptation
然而我只有身后这座诱惑之城，
And a diamond snake around my arm
和手腕上的这条蛇形手链。
But you still have your music
但是你依然有你的音乐，
And I've still got my eyes on the land and the sky
我也仍追寻着广阔的天与地，
You sing for your friends and your family
你为你的家人和朋友歌唱，
I'll walk green pastures by and by
我也会继续我的迁途，走过这一片又一片的青草地。
翻译：cyril
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