《Searching for America》歌词

[00:00:00] Searching for America - Janis Ian

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[00:00:22] Where have you been that made you weep

[00:00:27] 你去了哪里让你伤心落泪

[00:00:27] And left these stains upon your cheek

[00:00:32] 在你的脸颊留下印痕

[00:00:32] What did you see while you were gone

[00:00:38] 你不在的时候看到了什么

[00:00:38] That haunts your eyes this sunny dawn

[00:00:43] 在这个明媚的黎明萦绕在你的眼前

[00:00:43] They herded us like so much meat

[00:00:48] 他们把我们赶得团团转

[00:00:48] Up from the sewers to the street

[00:00:53] 从下水道到街头

[00:00:53] Where concrete canyons stretched their walls

[00:00:59] 混凝土峡谷延伸出高墙

[00:00:59] So high it made us want to crawl

[00:01:04] 兴奋无比让我们想要匍匐前进

[00:01:04] Past proverbs writ on subway cars

[00:01:10] 过去的箴言写在地铁车厢里

[00:01:10] And in between the window bars

[00:01:15] 在窗栏之间

[00:01:15] We walked until the pavement bled

[00:01:20] 我们走到人行道上鲜血直流

[00:01:20] And not a curse was left unsaid

[00:01:25] 没有一句咒骂是没有说出口的

[00:01:25] Into a place that knows no spring

[00:01:28] 来到一个没有春天的地方

[00:01:28] Where only steel and silver sing

[00:01:31] 只有钢铁和白银在歌唱

[00:01:31] They made us dance until we dropped

[00:01:33] 他们让我们尽情舞蹈直到我们筋疲力尽

[00:01:33] And the music of the jackhammers stopped

[00:01:43] 电钻的音乐戛然而止

[00:01:43] I caught a cinder in my eye

[00:01:45] 我的眼睛里进了一片灰烬

[00:01:45] Searching for a patch of sky

[00:01:52] 寻找一片天空

[00:01:52] But the shadows drizzled down like in Pompeii

[00:01:56] 阴影笼罩着我就像在庞贝城

[00:01:56] That's how I spent my yesterday

[00:02:02] 我就这样度过我的昨天

[00:02:02] Searching for America

[00:02:07] 寻找美国

[00:02:07] In the rivets and the rust

[00:02:12] 在我的生命里

[00:02:12] Searching for America

[00:02:18] 寻找美国

[00:02:18] Finding only dust

[00:02:24] 只找到尘埃

[00:02:24] What did you see that made you cry

[00:02:29] 你看到了什么让你伤心落泪

[00:02:29] And left these track marks on your eye

[00:02:35] 在你的眼睛上留下痕迹

[00:02:35] What did you find while you were there

[00:02:39] 你在那里发现了什么

[00:02:39] That sucks the light out of the morning air

[00:02:45] 将清晨的阳光吸干

[00:02:45] They gave us each a cropper's shack

[00:02:51] 他们给了我们每人一间小木屋

[00:02:51] And land so hard it broke our back

[00:02:56] 重重跌落在地我们筋疲力尽

[00:02:56] Then fed us' til our bellies burst

[00:03:01] 然后养我们直到我们肚子撑破

[00:03:01] On promises that died at birth

[00:03:06] 信守着出生就夭折的诺言

[00:03:06] So I lay the baby out each dawn

[00:03:12] 所以每天清晨我都把孩子放在外面

[00:03:12] In between the tender corn

[00:03:17] 在嫩玉米之间

[00:03:17] With sunrise for her bonnet

[00:03:22] 她的帽子就像日出

[00:03:22] And flies her only blanket

[00:03:28] 放飞她唯一的毛毯

[00:03:28] We harvested until we bled

[00:03:31] 我们收获颇丰直到我们鲜血淋漓

[00:03:31] 'Til every single root ran red

[00:03:33] 直到每一根都变成红色

[00:03:33] And when the work was finally done

[00:03:36] 当一切终于尘埃落定

[00:03:36] They gave our names to immigration

[00:03:46] 他们把我们的名字告诉了移民局

[00:03:46] I did not know how bad it hurt

[00:03:48] 我不知道这是多么伤人

[00:03:48] Until I lay there eating dirt

[00:03:55] 直到我躺在那里吃土

[00:03:55] And the cold seeped in between my bones

[00:03:59] 寒冷渗透我的骨子里

[00:03:59] That's where I was when I left home

[00:04:04] 当我离开家时我就在那里

[00:04:04] Searching for America

[00:04:10] 寻找美国

[00:04:10] All her dreams and hopes

[00:04:15] 她的梦想和希望

[00:04:15] Searching for America

[00:04:20] 寻找美国

[00:04:20] Finding only ghosts

[00:04:48] 找到的只有鬼魅

[00:04:48] Who are these people you have seen

[00:04:53] 你见过的这些人是谁

[00:04:53] To dream this dark and distant dream

[00:04:58] 做着黑暗而遥远的梦

[00:04:58] To tell the stories you have told

[00:05:04] 讲述你讲述的故事

[00:05:04] To leave these bruises on your soul

[00:05:09] 在你的灵魂上留下伤痕

[00:05:09] They are the flesh they are the bone

[00:05:15] 他们是血肉他们是骨头

[00:05:15] They are the very cornerstone

[00:05:20] 它们是

[00:05:20] They leave their mansions and their shacks

[00:05:25] 他们离开了他们的豪宅和窝棚

[00:05:25] To hide here in between the cracks

[00:05:30] 躲在缝隙之间

[00:05:30] Their hope is tattooed on my lips

[00:05:36] 他们的希望纹在我的唇上

[00:05:36] Bleeding from my fingertips

[00:05:41] 鲜血从我的指尖滴落

[00:05:41] They are crawling toward the promised land

[00:05:47] 他们匍匐前进奔向乐土

[00:05:47] Hand over hand

[00:05:52] 手牵着手

[00:05:52] To walk until they run no more

[00:05:55] 直到他们不再奔跑

[00:05:55] And wash up on some distant shore

[00:05:57] 被冲上遥远的海岸

[00:05:57] Where truth is not the enemy

[00:06:00] 真理不是敌人

[00:06:00] And whatever does not kill us sets us free

[00:06:08] 只要杀不死我们就给我们自由

[00:06:08] Somewhere out there

[00:06:12] 冥冥之中

[00:06:12] Are millions just like me

[00:06:19] 像我一样腰缠万贯

[00:06:19] Homesick for Eden

[00:06:23] 向往伊甸园

[00:06:23] Heartsick at the memory

[00:06:28] 想起往事我心痛不已

[00:06:28] Searching for America

[00:06:33] 寻找美国

[00:06:33] In every stick and stone

[00:06:38] 在每一根树枝和石头上

[00:06:38] Searching for America

[00:06:45] 寻找美国

[00:06:45] Going home

[00:06:49] 回家

[00:06:49] Searching for America

[00:06:55] 寻找美国

[00:06:55] Going home

[00:07:01] 回家

[00:07:01] Yeah oh

[00:07:06] Yeah oh