Answers - Susan Calloway
I close my eyes tell us why must we suffer
我闭上双眼 告诉我们 为什么我们要承受这一切
Release your hands for your will drags us under
请放开双手 不要变成沉重负担
My legs grow tired tell us where must we wander
我的双腿已渐渐疲惫 告诉我们 我们究竟该在何处徘徊
How can we carry on if redemption's beyond us
如果救赎根本遥不可及 我们该何去何从
To all of my children in whom life flows abundant
所有正在享受生命流动的孩子们
To all of my children to whom death hath passed his judgement
所有已经接受死亡审判的孩子们
The soul yearns for honor and the flesh the hereafter
灵魂崇尚高洁 而肉体则渴求永生
Look to those who walked before to lead those who walk after
去跟随前人的身影 引导寻路的后人
Shining is the land's light of justice
正义的光芒普照大地
Ever flows the land's well of purpose
理想的清泉流淌不息
Walk free walk free walk free believe
徘徊 徐行 漫步 相信
The land is alive so believe
请相信这世界充满生机
Suffer feel promise think witness teach reason
受苦 感受 承诺 思考 见证 传授 推论
Hear follow feel wander think stumble teach listen
倾听 追随 感受 徘徊 思考 踌躇 传授 聆听
Speak honor speak value tell whisper tell mention
讲述 荣誉 讲述 价值 传达 低语 传达 提及
Hope ponder hope warrant wish cherish wish welcome
希望 沉思 希望 证明 祈愿 珍爱 祈愿 欢迎
Roam witness roam listen roam suffer roam sanction
迷茫 见证 迷茫 聆听 迷茫 受苦 迷茫 制裁
Sleep weather sleep wander sleep answer sleep on
沉睡 承受 沉睡 徘徊 沉睡 回答 长眠
Now open your eyes while our plight is repeated
请睁开双眼 苦难仍然反复不断
Still deaf to our cries lost in hope we lie defeated
败者的呼喊 我们被希望所欺骗
Our souls have been torn and our bodies forsaken
灵魂已破碎 肉体也已损坏腐烂
Bearing sins of the past for our future is taken
背负着过去的罪恶 因为未来已被截断
War born of strife these trials persuade us not
战争冲突无法构成考验
Feel what learn what
要去感受什么 要去领会什么
Words without sound these lies betray our thoughts
话语无声 背叛本心的谎言
Mired by a plague of doubt the land she mourns
陷入困惑 大地哀声悲叹
Judgement binds all we hold to a memory of scorn
审判将一切困在轻蔑的记忆中
Tell us why given life we are meant to die helpless in our cries
为什么 虽获生命却转瞬即逝 空余下呐喊
Witness feel suffer think borrow teach reason
见证 感受 受苦 思考 借鉴 传授 推论
Hear follow feel stumble think wander teach listen
倾听 追随 感受 踌躇 思考 徘徊 传授 聆听
Blink whisper blink shoulder blink ponder blink weather
转瞬 低语 转瞬 担负 转瞬 沉思 转瞬 承受
Hear answer look answer think answer together
倾听 回答 注视 回答 思考 共同的答案
Thy life is a riddle to bear rapture and sorrow
生活就是一个谜题 你们要承受欢乐与痛苦
To listen to suffer to entrust unto tomorrow
去倾听 去受难 去将一切托付给明天
In one fleeting moment from the land doth life flow
在每一个飞速流逝的瞬间 这片土地都生机勃勃
Yet in one fleeting moment for anew it doth grow
在每一个飞速流逝的瞬间 新事物都如雨后春笋般冒出
In the same fleeting moment
在这同样流逝的瞬间里
Thou must live
你们必须有意义地生存
Die
有尊严地死去
And know
你们要了解自己的人生