A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers (Medley) (2005 Digital Remaster)-Van Der Graaf Generator

[00:19.51]Still waiting for my saviour, storms tear me limb from limb;
仍在等待我的救主，风暴撕裂我四肢； [00:26.21]my fingers feel like seaweed, I'm so far out I'm too far in.
我的手指摸起来像海草……我离得太远了，我太远了。 [00:38.99]I am a lonely man, my solitude is true,
我是一个孤独的人，我的孤独是真实的， [00:45.29]my eyes have borne stark witness
我的眼睛是荒凉的见证。 [00:48.58]and now my nights are numbered, too.
现在我的夜晚也屈指可数。 [00:57.74]I've seen the smiles on dead hands,
我看到了死亡之手的微笑， [01:03.74]the stars shine, but they're not for me.
星星闪耀，却不是为我。 [01:21.16]I prophesy disaster and then I count the cost...
我预言灾难，然后权衡得失… [01:27.44]I shine but, shining, dying, I know that I am almost lost.
我闪耀，但，光辉，死亡，我知道我几乎失去。 [01:39.54]On the table lies blank paper and my tower is built on stone;
桌上有一张白纸，我的塔建在石头上； [01:45.91]I only have blunt scissors, I only have the bluntest home.
我只有钝剪刀，我只有最生硬的家。 [01:57.86]I've been the witnessand the seal of death
我是死亡的印章 [02:03.71]lingers in the molten wax that is my head.
苟延残喘在熔化的蜡是我的脑袋。 [02:15.21]When you see the skeletons
当你看见骷髅 [02:17.13]of sailing-ship spars sinking low
帆船桅杆下沉 [02:20.17]You'll begin to wonder if the points of all the ancients myths
你会开始怀疑所有古人的神话 [02:22.98]are solemnly directed straight at you...
庄严地直对着你… [05:45.13]No time now for contrition, the time for that's long past,
现在没有时间忏悔，时间属于漫长的过去， [05:51.88]the walls are thin as tissue and if I talk I'll crack the glass.
墙壁薄如纸张，如果我说话会打碎玻璃。 [06:04.63]So I only think on how it might have been,
所以我只是想它可能会如何发生 [06:11.14]locked in silent monologue, in silent scream.
被锁在无言的独白，在沉默的尖叫。 [06:22.44]I am much too tired to speak
我累得说不出话来 [06:23.73]and as the waves crash on the bleak
当海浪冲击着荒凉 [06:26.75]stones of the towerI start to freak
塔上的石头开始胡闹 [06:29.89]and find that I am overcome....
发现我已战胜 [07:00.77]"Unreal, unreal" ghost helmsmen scream and fall in through the sky,
“假的，假的“鬼舵手尖叫，消散在天空， [07:08.49]not breaking through my seagull shrieks -no breaks until I die.
不要打破我海鸥般的尖叫-直到我死。 [07:16.19]The spectres scratch on window-slits,
幽灵刮过窗缝， [07:19.58]the hollowed faces and mindless grins
空洞的面孔和盲目的笑 [07:23.08]are only intent on destroying what they've lost.
只想摧毁他们失去的东西。 [07:42.29]I crawl the wall till steepness ends in the vertical fall;
我爬在墙上，直到险峻结束在垂直下降； [07:49.80]my pail has sailed into the sea -no joking hopes at dawn.
我的水桶驶进了大海--黎明时没有可笑的希望。 [07:56.90]White bone shine in the iron-jaw mask,
白骨在铁颌面具里闪耀， [08:00.50]lost mastheads pierce the freezing dark
失去了桅顶刺破冰冷的黑暗 [08:03.74]and parallel my isolated tower...
平行于我孤独的塔… [08:09.01]no paraffin for the flame,
没有石蜡来提供火焰 [08:16.76]no harbour left to gain.
没有海港来获得物资 [09:02.55]'Alone, alone' the ghosts all call,
“孤独，孤独”魔鬼们大叫 [09:09.19]pinpoint me in the light.
在光明中找到我。 [09:16.08]The only life I feel at all
我唯一感到的生活 [09:22.16]is the presence of the night.
是夜晚的存在。 [10:39.48]Would you cry if I died?
如果我死了你会哭吗？ [10:50.33]Would you catch the final words of mine?
你会捕捉到我最后的话吗？ [10:54.48]Would you catch my words?
你会记得我的话吗？ [10:58.79]I know that there's no time,
我知道没有时间， [11:03.10]I know that there's no rhyme,
我知道没有押韵， [11:05.48]false signs find me.
在虚假的迹象中找到我。 [11:06.72]I don't want to hate, I just want to grow;
我不想憎恨，我只想成长； [11:09.80]why can't I let me live and be free?
为什么我不能让我或者并且自由？ [11:12.35]...but I die very slowly alone.
但是我独自死得很慢。 [11:22.34]I know no more ways, I am so afraid,
我知道没有更多的方式，我是如此害怕， [11:25.08]myself won't let me just be myself
我不会让自己仅仅只是做我自己 [11:27.58]and so I am completely alone.
所以我完全孤独。 [13:23.67]The maelstrom of my memory
我记忆的漩涡 [13:27.53]is a vampire and it feeds on me;
是吸血鬼和它饲料我； [13:31.04]now, staggering madly, over the brink I fall.
现在，难以置信地疯狂，越过我倒下的边缘。 [13:51.41]Lighthouses might house the key but can I reach the door?
灯塔可能是房子的钥匙但我能走到门口吗？ [14:20.87]I want to walk on the sea so that I may better find a shore;
我想走在海上，这样我可以更好地找到一个海岸； [14:40.46]but how can I ever keep my feet dry?
但我怎么能保持我的脚是干的？ [14:48.22]I scan the horizon,
我扫视地平线， [14:52.00]I must keep my eyes on all parts of me.
我必须保持我的注意力在我的所有部分。 [15:04.98]Looking back on the years it seems that I have lost my way:
回首岁月似乎我迷失了方向： [15:23.74]l Like a dog in the night I have run to a manger,
我像一只狗，在夜晚我奔向马槽， [15:28.65]now I am the stranger I stay in.
所呆之地现在我是陌生人。 [15:36.22]Ah, well.
啊，好吧。 [15:43.31]All of the grief I have seen leaves me chasing solitary peace;
所有我看到的悲伤让我追逐孤独的和平； [16:02.96]But I hold experience in my head.
但我把经验封存在我的脑海。 [16:09.81]I'm too close to the light,.
我太接近光明了， [16:13.80]I don't think I see right, for I blind me.
我不认为我看到的是正确的，因为我蒙蔽了我的双眼 [16:41.34]Where is the God that guides my hand?
牵引我手的上帝在哪里？ [16:43.24]How can the hands of others reach me?
别人的手如何才能摸到我？ [16:45.72]When will I find what I grope for?
我什么时候才能找到我所追求的？ [16:47.74]Who is going to teach me?
谁来教教我？ [16:50.16]I am me / me are we / we can't see
我是我/我是我们/我们看不见 [16:51.69]any way out of here.
无论如何得离开这儿 [16:53.25]Crashing sea, a trophied history:
破碎的海，一个战利品的历史： [16:55.23]chance has lost my Guinevere...
我的 Guinevere机会已失去...... [17:41.63]I don't want to be one wave in the water
我不想成为水中的一条波浪 [17:47.10]but sea will drag me deep:
但大海会拖曳我至深处： [17:53.12]one more haggard drowned man.
又一个憔悴的淹死的人。 [18:06.77]I can see the lemmings coming, but I know I'm just a man.
我可以看到旅鼠的到来，但我知道我只是一个人类。 [18:12.43]Do I join or do I founder? Which can is the best I may?
我加入还是创始人？哪一个我可能做的更好？ [19:29.85]Oceans drifting sideways, I am pulled into the spell,
海洋斜着漂流，我被拉入魔咒， [19:39.17]I feel you around me, I know you well.
我感觉你在我身边，我很了解你。 [19:48.19]Stars slice horizons where the lines stand much too stark;
星星切割地平线的地方太过荒凉； [19:57.28]I feel I am drowning - hands stretch in the dark.
我感觉我在黑暗中挣扎着伸出双手。 [20:24.46]Camps of panoply and majesty, what is Freedom of Choice?
威严的全副武装的阵营，什么是自由选择？ [20:32.87]Where do I stand in the pageantry, whose is my voice?
我站在哪里的盛况，我的声音是谁的？ [20:41.91]It doesn't feel so very bad now, I think the end is the start,
现在感觉不那么坏，我想结束就是开始， [20:50.13]begin to feel very glad now:
现在开始觉得很高兴： [20:54.19]All things are a part
万物皆是一部分。 [21:00.52]All things are apart
万物皆是一部分。 [21:06.86]All things are a part.
万物皆是一部分。