(注:桃花笺)
作词: 东山居士&泽希
混音:东山居士
In Chengdu rain a scholar came
注:成都的雨里一位书生走来
With verses like the Southwind's name
注:他的诗句如南风之名般清雅
"Your words outshine the phoenix wings "
注:“你的文字比凤凰羽翼更夺目”
He whispered making silence sing
注:他轻声说着让寂静也泛起了回响
Her peach-dyed paper caught his gaze
注:她那染成桃色的纸笺吸引了他的目光
In ink-stained nights their souls would blaze
注:在墨痕浸染的夜里两人的灵魂一同燃烧
O Peach Blossom Notes stained with spring
注:啊桃花笺浸透着春光
Held promises that time would sting
注:承载的誓言终会被岁月刺痛
She wrote: "When flowers bloom alone"
注:(她写道:“当繁花独自绽放时”)
He pledged: "No ocean but my own"
注:(他许诺:“我的心海只为你而存在”)
But tides of power tides of pride
注:可权力的浪潮、骄傲的暗流
Would sink what love had sanctified
注:终将淹没这份被爱圣化的情
The capital recalled its son
注:京城召它的游子归去(指元稹被召回长安)
Where golden chains outshone the sun
注:那里的金链(喻官场束缚)比日光更刺眼
Her letters crossed three thousand miles
注:她的书信跨越三千里路
Through war-torn roads and exiled trials
注:穿过战火蹂躏的途程与流放的磨难
"Court dust has dimmed your poet's sight "
注:“官场的尘埃已模糊了你诗人的眼”
She penned by fading candlelight
注:她在摇曳的烛火下提笔写下
Years later at the River Brocade
注:多年后在锦江之畔
He found her unmailed words afraid
注:他发现了她未寄出的信字迹带着犹豫
"My stream flows free without your sea
注:(“我的溪流没有你的大海也能自在流淌”)
My ink sustains what yours betrayed
注:(“我的笔墨坚守着你背弃的一切”)
The crimson paper burned his palm -
注:绯红的纸笺灼烧着他的手掌
A quiet everlasting psalm
注:一曲静默却永恒的歌
O Peach Blossom Notes stained with truth
注:啊桃花笺浸透着真相
Defying age and wasted youth
注:抗拒着岁月与虚掷的青春
Her river runs through history
注:(她的溪流流淌在历史长河中)
His seas drowned in bureaucracy
注:(他的心海淹没在官场繁文里)
While scholars quote his grand "goodbye"
注:尽管文人引述他华丽的“告别”
Her steadfast words still light the sky
注:她坚定的文字仍照亮着天空
At Wangjiang Tower bamboos sigh
注:望江楼畔竹影在低语
Where peach-hued dreams refuse to die
注:桃色的梦在此永不消散
Her spirit in each handmade sheet
注:(她的灵魂藏在每张亲手制的纸笺中)
Outloves all oceans all retreat
注:(她的爱胜过所有心海胜过所有退缩)