Amused to Death (Live) - Roger Waters
Doctor Doctor what is wrong with me
医生 我怎么了
This supermarket life is getting long
生活变得越来越难熬
What is the heart life of a colour TV
生活就像彩色电视
What is the shelf life of a teenage queen
一个十几岁女王的保鲜期是多久
Ooh western woman
西部女人
Ooh western girl
西部女孩
News hound sniffs the air
狗仔们闻风而动
When Jessica Hahn goes down
当杰西卡哈恩不再受欢迎时
He latches on to that symbol
他紧握
Of detachment
那超脱的暗示
Attracted by the peeling away of feeling
被超脱的感觉所吸引
The celebrity of the abused shell the belle
美女明星滥用人气
Ooh western woman Ooh western girl Ooh western woman
西部女人 西部女孩 西部女人
Ooh western girl
西部女孩
And the children of Melrose
还有梅尔罗斯的孩子
Strut their stuff
炫耀他们的东西
Is absolute zero cold enough
全都化为虚有
And out in the valley warm and clean
硅谷之外温暖而干净
The little ones sit by their TV screens
小孩们坐在他们的电视机前
No thoughts to think
没有任何忧愁
No tears to cry
没有眼泪
All sucked dry
一直欢乐
Down to the very last breath
到生命的最后
Bartender what is wrong with me
酒保 我怎么了
Why am I so out of breath
为什么我这么上气不接下气
The captain said excuse me ma'am
船长说 对不起 夫人
This species has amused itself to death
这个物种是娱乐至死的
Amused itself to death
自己开心死的
Amused itself to death
自己开心死的
We watched the tragedy unfold
我们看着悲剧发生
We did as we were told
我们按照所吩咐的去做
We bought and sold
我们做着买卖
It was the greatest show on earth
这是地球上最伟大的表演
But then it was over
但最后还是结束了
We ohhed and aahed
我们亲手做一些事情
We drove our racing cars
我们驾驶赛车
We ate our last few jars of caviar
我们吃了最后几罐鱼子酱
And somewhere out there in the stars
在遥远星空的一角
A keen-eyed look-out
有人用敏锐的眼睛
Spied a flickering light
望见了摇曳的火光
Our last hurrah Our last hurrah
在我们最后的努力下
And when they found our shadows
当他们发现我们的踪影
Grouped around the TV sets
围绕着电视机分组
They ran down every lead
他们反复地研究线索
They repeated every test
重复着每一个试验
They checked out all the data on their lists
他们对着清单一项项查看
And then the alien anthropologists
但外星的人类学家们
Admitted they were still perplexed
还是承认他们毫无头绪
But on eliminating every other reason
但是排除了所有其他
For our sad demise
导致这悲剧发生的原因后
They logged the only explanation left
他们锁定了最后一种可能
This species has amused itself to death
这个物种是娱乐至死的
No tears to cry no feelings left
没有悲伤 没有感觉
This species has amused itself to death
这个物种娱乐至死了
Years later I saw Bill Hubbard's name on the memorial to the missing
几年后 我在纪念碑上看见了
At Aras
比尔哈伯德的名字
And I when I saw his name I was absolutely transfixed it
当我看到他的名字我完全惊呆了
Was as though he was now a human being instead of some sort of
好像他现在是一个人 而某种程度上
Nightmarish memory of how I had to leave him all those years ago
我不得不忘记他噩梦般的记忆 往事如烟
And I felt relieved and ever since then I've felt happier about it
我觉得松了一口气 从那以后我总是因为之前的记忆感觉更加快乐
Because always before whenever I thought of him I said to myself
每当我想起他 我对自己说
Was there something else that I could have done
我可以做些什么呢
And that always sort of worried me And having seen him and his
之前我总是担心这一点 但是当我看到他的名字已经登记在录的时候
Name in the register as you know in the memorials there's a little safe
我忽然从那块纪念碑上获得一点安全感
There's a register in there with every name and seeing his name and
纪念碑上的每个名字都在注册本上 我看到他的名字
His name on the memorial it sort of lightened my heart if you like
也刻在了纪念碑上 这在某种程度上使我放松了许多
When was it that you saw his name on the memorial
你是什么时候在纪念碑上看到他的名字的
Ah when I was eighty-seven that would be a year ninete eighty-
当我八十七岁时 那是一九八零年
Four nineteen eighty-four
或者一九八四年