Steam rises from midnight coffee cups
午夜咖啡杯蒸腾着白雾
Your equations bloom in neon lights
你的公式在霓虹中绽放
(Frosted lenses prism sighs)
(镜片结霜棱镜呵出虹的叹息)
Every beaker’s trembling confession
每个烧杯的微颤告白
Spells your name in cursive reactions
都用花体字写满你的名
Digits spin like Saturn’s rings
数字旋转如土星环
My compass needle lost its north
我的罗盘失了北极
(Oh your lab coat twirls)
(啊你实验袍旋舞)
When you hum to test tubes blue
当你对着蓝色试管轻哼
I melt quicker than mercury at noon
我比正午的水银融化更快
Mercury in retrograde
水星逆行时
Orbits tango when you walk this way
轨道跳起探戈当你经过
Mercury in retrograde
水星逆行时
Galaxies pause when your pencil sways
银河停驻追随你铅笔轻摇
Slide rules trace your collarbone
计算尺描摹你的锁骨线
Moonlight’s tangent through your comb
月光从你发梳斜泻成切线
(Oh those liquid eyes)
(啊那液态眼眸)
Catalyst of strawberry lip gloss
草莓唇釉的催化剂
Now my periodic table’s lost
让我的元素周期表失序
Mercury in retrograde
水星逆行时
Constellations stutter at your grade
星座结巴于你的成绩单
Mercury in retrograde
水星逆行时
Nebulas envy how your braids cascade
星云都嫉妒你发辫倾泻
Eight-ball chalk on star-chart wrists
星图腕间八球粉痕
(Bop bop ba-doo)
(啵啵叭嘟)
Your eraser smudges cosmic myths
你的橡皮擦模糊宇宙神话
Telephone wires hum your theorems
电话线哼唱你的定理
(La-la-lullaby)
(啦-啦-摇篮曲)
Mercury in retrograde
水星逆行时
Calculus kneels to your lemonade
微积分臣服于你的柠檬茶
Mercury in retrograde
水星逆行时
Supernova whispers“stay”you prayed
超新星低语"别走"你祈愿
Petri dish heart you left half-proved
培养皿里未证半的心
Honeyed variables still unsolved
蜜糖变量仍无解
(Ah mercury swirls)
(啊水银旋舞)
Twenty lines of unread mail
二十封未读信件
All end with your quadratic smile
皆以你二次元微笑作结