Childlike Faith In Childhood's End-Van Der Graaf Generator

[00:00.000] 作曲 : Peter Hammill [00:03.29]Existence is a stage on which we pass,
存在就是我们路过的的舞台 [00:10.29]A sleepwalk trick for mind and heart:
是一场演给思想与心脏的梦游的把戏 [00:15.46]It's hopeless, I know,
我知道这是无望 [00:17.99]But onward I must go
但我仍必须向前 [00:20.54]And try to make a start
并试图重新开始 [00:26.89]At seeing something more than day-to-day
当看清那些超过日常琐事的存在 [00:32.80]Survival chased by final death.
幸存者们便被最终的死亡给追随 [00:37.77]If I believed this the sum
如果我相信了这生命 [00:40.11]Of the life to which we've come
就是我们目前所能达到的全部 [00:42.35]I wouldn't waste my breath.
我还不如一早掐断我的呼吸 [00:48.16]Somehow, there must be more.
冥冥中 必不只如此 [01:05.86]There was a time when more was felt than known,
有时纵使（其）被我们感知，却永远无法触及 [01:11.20]But now, entrenched inside my sett,
但现在，它们已根深在我的地基 [01:16.12]In light more mundane,
被平凡的光所沐浴 [01:18.72]Thought rattles round my brain:
思想在我脑边喋喋言语： [01:20.99]We live, we die... And yet?
我们生，我们死，然后呢？ [01:26.76]In the beginning there was order and destiny
虽然秩序与宿命生来如此 [01:34.30]But now that path has reached the border, and
但此时道路已然穷尽 [01:39.66]On our knees
且残破死寂毫无生机 [01:42.61]Is no way to face the future, whatever it be.
无论未来是怎样我们都将无法面对 [01:49.49]Though the forces which hold us in place
纵使这将我们带入真理之地的神秘 [01:54.20]Last through eons in unruffled grace
源自亘古，隽永沉默 [01:58.24]We, too, wear the face of creation.
我们，戴着创世造物的面具 [02:16.78]As anti-matter sucks and pulses periodically
如无形的孑孓之于沧海 [02:23.51]The bud unfolds, the bloom is dead, all space
花蕾展开，却又归于死寂 [02:28.16]Is living history.
所有的空间都是在即的时间 [02:29.95]It seems as though time must betray us, yet
纵使时间终会背叛我们 [02:34.13]We're alive
但我们仍还活着 [02:36.22]And though I see no God to save us still we survive
虽然我明白并没有神明会将我们拯救 [02:42.35]Through the centuries of progress
但在数世纪的长河中我们仍活了下来 [02:45.31]Which don't get us very far.
也许并不能再走更远 [02:49.90]All illusion! All is bogus
这全部的幻象！这所有的虚伪 [02:52.63]We don't yet know what we are...
我们仍不解我们究竟是什么 [03:03.49]Laughing, hoping, praying, joking, Son of Man!
嬉笑，希望，祈求，玩笑，人类啊！ [03:09.75]With lowered eyes but lifting hearts, we're
我们仅是那 [03:13.28]Grains of sand
垂着愁眸提心吊胆的沙粒上的细纹 [03:15.70]And though, in time, the sea may claim us for
而这也都必将随时间之河 [03:19.76]Its own
归于大海 [03:22.09]We are the rocks which root the future
我们是未来扎根其上的岩石 [03:25.68]On us it grows!
并供养其生长 [03:27.98]We might not be there to share it
我们或许无法分享最后的喜悦 [03:31.01]If eternity's a jest
如果永恒只是一句玩笑 [03:35.34]But I think that I can bear it
但我认为我能打败这宿命 [03:38.58]If the next life is the best.
去期待更好的来世 [04:34.71]Even if there is a heaven when we die
就算我们逝去后去到天堂 [04:39.46]Endless bliss would be as meaningless as the lie
那无尽的欢悦也会如谎言一样变得虚无 [04:43.81]That always comes as answer to the question
这通常都会成为那终极问题的答案 [04:47.08]"Why do we see through the eyes of creation?"
“为何我们都只用肉眼去看去寻觅？” [05:11.09]Adrift without a course, it's very lonely here,
没有目的的漂浮，在这寂寞之地 [05:25.72]Our only conjecture what lies behind the dark.
我们那藏匿在黑夜身后的臆测 [05:40.93]Still, I find I can cling to a lifeline,
我发觉我仍能抓住我的救命草 [05:47.17]Think of a lifetime which means more
思考着活着那远超于我自身 [05:53.96]Than my own one
的意义 [05:56.80]Dreams of a grander thing than we are.
梦想着有着远高于我们的存在存在 [06:05.29]Time and Space hang heavy on my shoulders:
时空都沉甸甸在我肩上： [06:16.33]When all life is over who can say
当所有的生命完结 [06:23.17]No mutated force shall remain?
谁能断言不会有截然的神秘存留？ [06:40.55]Though the towers of the city are denied to we
尽管这用黏土拼成的我们不屑那些 [06:46.83]Men of clay
城市里耸立的高楼 [06:49.61]Still we know we shall scale the heights some day.
然而我们总有一天也会去在意它们的高度 [06:56.89]Frightened in the silence
在沉默里惶恐 [07:01.39]Frightened, but thinking very hard,
受怕，却又极力的思考 [07:12.57]Let us make computations of the stars.
让我们思考并计算出星星的数量吧 [08:54.32]Older, wiser, sadder, blinder, watch us run;
那老朽，智者，乞丐，盲人，注视着我们前进 [09:01.10]Faster, longer, harder, stronger, now it comes:
那更快，更持久，更坚硬，更强壮的，已然临近 [09:07.30]Colour blisters, image splinters gravitate
青紫的水泡，细尘飞絮因重力下坠 [09:13.46]Towards the centre, in final splendour
朝着万物的中心，到最后所有宏伟 [09:17.20]Disintegrate.
也崩碎 [09:19.78]The universe now beckons
宇宙在召唤 [09:22.67]And Man, too, must take His place...
人们也举起双手，势必取代自己的地位 [09:26.95]Just a few last fleeting seconds
仅在转瞬即逝的时间里 [09:30.35]To wander in the waste
在荒地里眺望 [09:40.51]And the children who were ourselves move on
然后那以往天真的孩童便启程 [09:46.04]Reincarnation stills it's now perfected song
轮回转世仍是多么完美的赞歌 [09:52.36]And at last we are free of the bonds of creation.
直到最终我们终于可以脱离肉体以得自由 [10:05.29]All the jokers and gaolers,
所有小丑与看守 [10:10.04]All the junkies and slavers too,
所有瘾者与圣人 [10:14.49]All the throng who have danced a merry tune
所有舞出欢乐旋律的人群 [10:21.42]Human we can all be,
所有我的同类们 [10:25.21]But Humanity we must rise above,
我们人类必须高高举起 [10:36.05]In the name of all faith and hope and love.
那些名为信仰希望和爱的武器 [10:45.15]There's a time for all pilgrims,
所有的朝圣者都有机会 [10:49.54]And a time for the fakers too,
所有的伪善者也受恩惠 [10:53.96]There's a time when we all will stand alone and nude;
因为我们终会赤裸着身体凛然站立 [11:01.31]Naked to the galaxies
孤独的面向那茫茫浩宇 [11:05.61]Naked, but clothed in the overview...
赤裸着，却又身着坚定盾羽 [11:16.05]As we reach Childhood's End we must start anew.
当我们来到童年的尽头我们都将重新开始 [11:35.22]And though dark is the highway
尽管黑暗是属捷径 [11:41.11]And the peak's distance breaks my heart,
并且那通往巅峰的距离令我胆寒 [11:46.73]For I never shall see it, still I play my part,
纵使我永远也无法亲眼目睹，我仍迈好我的脚步 [11:55.90]Believing that what waits for us
相信着那些等待着我们的 [12:00.21]Is the cosmos compared to the dust of the past...
是犹如宇宙恢弘之于广袤空中的浮游 [12:12.11]In the death of mere humans life shall start!
沧海桑田之际人类便会重新站起！