歌词与中文翻译
Will I become like the old man from next door?
我会变得像隔壁老头一样吗？
Obsessed with fear of losing his mind,
陷入思想的恐惧
he soon couldn't take care of himself anymore.
他快不能自理了
He had no friends or relatives to look after him,
没有朋友或邻居来看望她
only once a week some male nurse dropped in.
只有一周来一次的护士
He was found in his bed,dehydrated...
发现他在床上，脱水
unconscious,as he was,they brought him to a diffrent place.
失去了意识，幽灵带他去不同的地方
"We have never heard of him since..."
我们不知道他的过去
He lived alone in his house for most of his life,
他大多时候住在自己的房子里
and I wouldn't be suprised,
我对此习以为常
If he had died the same day they put him in a room
如果他死了，他会被从未谋面的人
with the people he'd never seem before.
安置在一间小屋里
He had a wild garden behind his house...
他后院有个自然生长地花园
so beautiful and dark.
如此美丽与黑暗
woodpeckers and squirrels lived there,
啄木鸟与松鼠住在哪里
and hedgehogs,mice and martens.
还有刺猬老鼠与 貂
Hazelnut-trees and wild strawberries grew,
榛树与野草莓
and cherries,apples and pears,and currants of red and black...
樱桃，苹果，梨，还有黑的红的浆果
all hidden in this private place.
都藏在他私人的花园里
In the safty of the shadows the fragile fern slept,
隐藏在黑暗深处，纤弱的蕨类植物
aloneg the winding paths the wild-flowers wept,
沿着蜿蜒曲折的小径，野花在哭泣
snowdrops noddld their little heads in spring,
雪莲对春风点头
of which I do not know the names...
还有我不知道名字的
And,of course,there was ivy everywhere.
当然，到处都爬满了常春藤
It happend the same week they took him away
他去世后的一周
workers hacked down all the trees in the garden...
工人们砍倒了花园里所有的树木
hired by the envious people outside...who had always terrified
陶醉于次美景的人
by the beauty that enchanted this place,
都害怕被聘请来清理它
and the darkness it was breathing.
黑暗在呼吸
Yet,none of them could keep the DEAD BIRDS FROM SINGING...
没人能阻止死去的鸟儿继续歌唱