走近之人ON THE LEVEL歌词翻译
ON THE LEVEL
坦率说吧
Words by Leonard Cohen, music by Sharon Robinson
I knew that it was wrong
I didn't have a doubt
I was dying to get back home
And you were starting out
我知道这是错
我从不怀疑
我临死也要回家
而你已离去。
I said I best be moving on
You said, we have all day
You smiled at me like I was young
It took my breath away
我说过我最好还是继续前行
你说我们还有时间
你对我微笑，像我年轻之时一样
它令我无法呼吸。
Your crazy fragrance all around
Your secrets all in view
My lost, my lost was saying found
My don't was saying do
你迷人的芬芳环绕
你所有的秘密都已铭记
我的失，我的失说着找到
我的不却说着是。
Let's keep it on the level
When I walked away from you
I turned my back on the devil
Turned my back on the angel too
让我们坦率说吧！
当我离你而去
我背弃了魔鬼
也拒绝了天使。
They ought to give my heart a medal
For letting go of you
When I turned my back on the devil
Turned my back on the angel too
放手让你而去
他们理应给我的心一枚勋章
当我背弃了魔鬼
也拒绝了天使。
Now I'm living in this temple
Where they tell you what to do
I'm old and I've had to settle
On a different point of view
如今我住进这个寺院
他们告诉你应该如何做
我老了，不得不同意
一个不同的观念。
I was fighting with temptation
But I didn't want to win
A man like me don't like to see
Temptation caving in
我曾经与诱惑交战
但我不想赢
像我这样的男人
不愿看见诱惑投降
Your crazy fragrance all around
You secrets in my view
My lost, my lost was saying found
My don't was saying do
你迷人的芬芳环绕
你所有的秘密都已铭记
我的失，我的失说着找到
我的不却说着是。
Let's keep it on the level
When I walked away from you
I turned my back on the devil
Turned my back on the angel too
让我们坦率说吧！
当我离你而去
我背弃了魔鬼
也拒绝了天使。
They ought to give my heart a medal
For letting go of you
When I turned my back on the devil
Turned my back on the angel too
放手让你而去
他们理应给我的心一枚勋章
当我背弃了魔鬼
也拒绝了天使。
鉴定此歌是写给玛丽安 。
So Long Marianne 中科恩有段歌词如下：
I forget to pray for the angels
and then the angels forget to pray for us.
我忘了向天使们祈祷
于是天使们忘记了为我们保佑。
So Long Marianne 再见，玛丽安 翻译如下：
https://site.douban.com/241628/widget/notes/17060035/?start=10
ON THE LEVEL 试听：
https://y.qq.com/n/yqq/song/000RV3bD43fM79.html
讨论汇集：
DBCohen：
“When I turned my back on the devil / Turned my back on the angle too” – As I said earlier, this album is full of allusions to Jesus, and the phrase in the first line of these two would necessarily make one think of him. Indeed, there must have been many who have faced the devil and rejected him, but the fountainhead of this image seems to be Jesus’ experience (Matthew 4; Mark 1; Luke 4). The Hebrew Bible (Old Testament), by the way, does not have any similar encounter with the devil, although there is a certain resemblance between Jesus’ experience in the desert and that of Elijah (1 Kings 19). So, as common with LC, the religious image is always there, whenever he talks about love. And of course, the angel in the second line brings to mind the angels in so many earlier songs, in particular: “I forget to pray for the angels / and then the angels forget to pray for us” (could this song actually be about Marianne, then, rather than about a later lover?). 他的分析也指出了天使与早年的再见了，玛丽安歌词中的联系。
“Now I’m living in this temple / Where they tell you what to do” – These lines too allude to the religious theme, naturally. LC must be thinking of the temple where he spent several years and had to obey the rules, although he no longer lives there (but perhaps wishes to be in such a place again? Being confined to a place also brings to mind “The Tower Of Song”).
So on the whole it’s a lighter but also a typical song of LC, in which we hear his familiar “voice” (language, images, rhymes, irony), resonating with echos of many memories of the past.
————————————————
blonde madonna:
We can take his lyrics too literally and over analyse them. He is a poet/writer who may use genuine experience but also constructs for artistic effect, borrowing a lot from familiar stories, using a lot of metaphors and generalising like heck to make his songs so universal.
说得很好！
Joe Way：
Blond Madonna, you are always one of my favorite posters and analyser of Leonard's poems and songs.
哈哈。
Bennyboy：
“They ought to give my heart a medal for letting go of you / When I turned my back on the devil, I turned my back on the angel, too,” he sings, invoking his stint in an ascetic Buddhist monastery in a way that suggests regret over abandoning the sensual pleasures of this world.
悔恨当时上山苦修禅宗，舍弃了这个世界的活色生香。
坦率说吧
Words by Leonard Cohen, music by Sharon Robinson
I knew that it was wrong
I didn't have a doubt
I was dying to get back home
And you were starting out
我知道这是错
我从不怀疑
我临死也要回家
而你已离去。
I said I best be moving on
You said, we have all day
You smiled at me like I was young
It took my breath away
我说过我最好还是继续前行
你说我们还有时间
你对我微笑，像我年轻之时一样
它令我无法呼吸。
Your crazy fragrance all around
Your secrets all in view
My lost, my lost was saying found
My don't was saying do
你迷人的芬芳环绕
你所有的秘密都已铭记
我的失，我的失说着找到
我的不却说着是。
Let's keep it on the level
When I walked away from you
I turned my back on the devil
Turned my back on the angel too
让我们坦率说吧！
当我离你而去
我背弃了魔鬼
也拒绝了天使。
They ought to give my heart a medal
For letting go of you
When I turned my back on the devil
Turned my back on the angel too
放手让你而去
他们理应给我的心一枚勋章
当我背弃了魔鬼
也拒绝了天使。
Now I'm living in this temple
Where they tell you what to do
I'm old and I've had to settle
On a different point of view
如今我住进这个寺院
他们告诉你应该如何做
我老了，不得不同意
一个不同的观念。
I was fighting with temptation
But I didn't want to win
A man like me don't like to see
Temptation caving in
我曾经与诱惑交战
但我不想赢
像我这样的男人
不愿看见诱惑投降
Your crazy fragrance all around
You secrets in my view
My lost, my lost was saying found
My don't was saying do
你迷人的芬芳环绕
你所有的秘密都已铭记
我的失，我的失说着找到
我的不却说着是。
Let's keep it on the level
When I walked away from you
I turned my back on the devil
Turned my back on the angel too
让我们坦率说吧！
当我离你而去
我背弃了魔鬼
也拒绝了天使。
They ought to give my heart a medal
For letting go of you
When I turned my back on the devil
Turned my back on the angel too
放手让你而去
他们理应给我的心一枚勋章
当我背弃了魔鬼
也拒绝了天使。
 |
鉴定此歌是写给玛丽安 。
So Long Marianne 中科恩有段歌词如下：
I forget to pray for the angels
and then the angels forget to pray for us.
我忘了向天使们祈祷
于是天使们忘记了为我们保佑。
So Long Marianne 再见，玛丽安 翻译如下：
https://site.douban.com/241628/widget/notes/17060035/?start=10
ON THE LEVEL 试听：
https://y.qq.com/n/yqq/song/000RV3bD43fM79.html
讨论汇集：
DBCohen：
“When I turned my back on the devil / Turned my back on the angle too” – As I said earlier, this album is full of allusions to Jesus, and the phrase in the first line of these two would necessarily make one think of him. Indeed, there must have been many who have faced the devil and rejected him, but the fountainhead of this image seems to be Jesus’ experience (Matthew 4; Mark 1; Luke 4). The Hebrew Bible (Old Testament), by the way, does not have any similar encounter with the devil, although there is a certain resemblance between Jesus’ experience in the desert and that of Elijah (1 Kings 19). So, as common with LC, the religious image is always there, whenever he talks about love. And of course, the angel in the second line brings to mind the angels in so many earlier songs, in particular: “I forget to pray for the angels / and then the angels forget to pray for us” (could this song actually be about Marianne, then, rather than about a later lover?). 他的分析也指出了天使与早年的再见了，玛丽安歌词中的联系。
“Now I’m living in this temple / Where they tell you what to do” – These lines too allude to the religious theme, naturally. LC must be thinking of the temple where he spent several years and had to obey the rules, although he no longer lives there (but perhaps wishes to be in such a place again? Being confined to a place also brings to mind “The Tower Of Song”).
So on the whole it’s a lighter but also a typical song of LC, in which we hear his familiar “voice” (language, images, rhymes, irony), resonating with echos of many memories of the past.
————————————————
blonde madonna:
We can take his lyrics too literally and over analyse them. He is a poet/writer who may use genuine experience but also constructs for artistic effect, borrowing a lot from familiar stories, using a lot of metaphors and generalising like heck to make his songs so universal.
说得很好！
Joe Way：
Blond Madonna, you are always one of my favorite posters and analyser of Leonard's poems and songs.
哈哈。
Bennyboy：
“They ought to give my heart a medal for letting go of you / When I turned my back on the devil, I turned my back on the angel, too,” he sings, invoking his stint in an ascetic Buddhist monastery in a way that suggests regret over abandoning the sensual pleasures of this world.
悔恨当时上山苦修禅宗，舍弃了这个世界的活色生香。
> 我来回应