Britten: Peter Grimes, Op. 33 / Act 2: "This Unrelenting Work" - Claire Watson/Peter Pears/Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden/Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden/Benjamin Britten
以下歌词翻译由文曲大模型提供
Lyrics by:Montagu Slater/George Crabbe
Composed by:Benjamin Britten
This unrelenting work
这永无止境的劳作
This grey unresting industry
这灰暗不休的工业
What aim what future what peace
能带来什么目标 什么未来 什么安宁
Will your hard profits buy
你辛苦的收益能否换取
Buy us a home buy us respect
为我们买来家园 买来尊严
And buy us freedom from pain
让我们摆脱痛苦的枷锁
Of grinning at gossip's tales
不必强颜欢笑听闲言碎语
Believe in me we shall be free
相信我 我们终将获得自由
I believe in God the Father Almighty
我信全能的父上帝
Maker of heaven and earth
创造天地的主
And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord
我信我主耶稣基督 上帝的独生子
Who was conceived
因圣灵感孕
Peter tell me one thing where
彼得告诉我 那少年
The youngster got that ugly bruise
身上的淤青从何而来
Out of the hurly burly
在这喧嚣纷扰中
O your ways
唉 你的道路
Are hard and rough beyond his days
艰辛与粗砺充斥着他的岁月
Peter were we right
彼得 我们是否做对
Were we in what we planned
我们的计划是否正确
To do
这一切
Were we right were we right
我们是否正确 是否正确
Take away your hand
请挪开你的手
My only hope depends on you
我唯一的希望系于你身
If you take it away what's left
若你将其剥夺 我还剩什么
Were we mistaken when we schemed
当我们谋划时 是否已铸成大错
To solve your life by lonely toil
试图用孤独苦役来解答你的人生
Wrong to plan
规划是错
Wrong to try
尝试是错
Wrong to live
活着是错
Right to die
唯死正确
Were we mistaken when we dreamed
当我们幻想时 是否早已迷失
Wrong to struggle
抗争是种错误
Wrong to hope
怀抱希望也是错
The Borough's
这街巷
Weren't then the Borough's
早已面目全非
Right again
再度屈服
Peter you cannot buy your peace
彼得啊 金钱买不到安宁
You'll never stop the gossips' talk
流言蜚语永不停歇
With all the fish from out the sea
纵有海中万千鱼群
We were mistaken to have dreamed
我们曾怀抱梦想 实属大错特错
Peter
We've failed
我们失败了
We've failed
我们失败了
So be it
既然如此
And God have mercy upon me
愿主垂怜于我