Threnody for the Victims of November Second

歌曲 Threnody for the Victims of November Second
歌手 The Ascent of Everest
专辑 How Lonely Sits the City

歌词

[01:25.00] "Ten days ago, president admitted that although some people in this country seem to be doing well nowadays.
[01:38.73] Others were unhappy, even worriedbout themselves, for their families and for their futures.
[01:50.18] President said that he didn't understand that fear.
[01:55.85] He said:"Why this country is a shining city on a hill!"
[02:02.00] And the president is right.
[02:07.34] In many ways we are a shining city on a hill.
[02:14.62] The hard truth is that not everyone is sharing the new city's splendour and glory.
[02:23.42] Shining city is perhaps all the president sees from the portica of the White House, of the verandah of his ranch, where everyone seems to be doing well.
[02:36.26] But there's another city. There's another part to the shining city.
[02:44.35] A part where some people can't pay their mortages, and most young people can't afford ...
[02:52.00] Where students can't afford the education they need and middle-class parents watch the dreams they hold for their children vaporate.
[03:04.00] In this part of the city there are more poor than ever.
[03:09.12] More families in trouble, more and more people who need help but can't find it.
[03:17.20] Even worse, there are elderly people who tremble in the basements of the houses they live.
[03:27.14] And there are people who sleep in the city streets, in the gutter where the glitter doesn't show.
[03:38.52] There are ghettos with thousands of young people without a job or an education.
[03:45.56] Give their lives away to drug dealers every day.
[03:55.02] There is despair.
[04:01.70] There is despair, Mr President.
[04:06.18] In the faces that you don't see.
[04:12.00] In the places that you don't visit in your shining city.
[04:21.98] Mr. President you ought to know that this nation is more a "Tale of Two Cities" than it is just a "Shining City on a Hill."
[04:45.33] Maybe, maybe Mr President if you visited some more places, if you went to Appalachia where some people still live in sheds.
[04:57.08] Maybe if you went to Lackawanna where thousands of unemployed steel-workers wonder why we subsidize foreign steel.
[05:17.00] Maybe, maybe Mr President if you stopped in at a shelter in Chicago and spoke to the homeless there.
[05:32.60] Maybe, Mr President if you asked a woman who had been denied the help she needed to feed her children
[05:42.24] Because you said you needed the money for a tax-break for a millionaire or for a missile we couldn't afford to use."
[05:53.33] Not for honour,
[05:55.00] not for glory
[05:58.13] not for profit,
[06:01.05] but for love!
[06:04.22] Not for honour,
[06:07.21] not for pleasure,
[06:10.24] not for profit,
[06:13.08] but for love!
[06:16.32] Not for honour,
[06:19.07] not for glory,
[06:22.11] not for profit,
[06:25.05] but for love!
[06:28.10] Not for honour,
[06:30.92] not for pleasure,
[06:34.02] not for profit,
[06:37.03] but for love!
[06:40.38] Not for honour,
[06:43.22] not for glory,
[06:46.03] not for profit,
[06:48.99] but for love!
[06:51.94] Not for honour,
[06:54.89] not for pleasure,
[06:57.77] not for profit,
[07:00.88] but for love!
[07:04.02] Not for honour,
[07:06.83] not for glory,
[07:09.81] not for profit,
[07:12.81] but for love!
[07:15.72] Not for honour,
[07:18.55] not for pleasure,
[07:21.51] not for profit,
[07:24.34] but for love!

歌词大意

[01:25.00] shí tiān qián, lǐ gēn zǒng tǒng chéng rèn suī rán zhè gè guó jiā de hěn duō rén xiàn zài kàn shang qu dōu gǎn jué hěn bù cuò.
[01:38.73] dàn shì yě yǒu rén bù gāo xìng, shèn zhì hěn wèi tā men zì jǐ jiā tíng hé tā men de wèi lái dān xīn.
[01:50.18] zǒng tǒng shuō tā bù míng bái tā men wèi shí me huì yǒu zhè zhǒng dān xīn.
[01:55.85] tā shuō" wèi shí me? zhè gè guó jiā jiù xiàng shì yí gè zài shān dǐng zhào yào chū càn làn guāng máng de chéng shì".
[02:02.00] zǒng tǒng shuō de shì duì de.
[02:07.34] cóng hěn duō fāng miàn lái shuō, wǒ men jiù xiàng shì yí gè zài shān dǐng zhào yào chū càn làn guāng máng de chéng shì.
[02:14.62] dàn shì yán kù de shì shí shì bìng bú shì měi ge rén dōu néng mù yù zài zhè gè chéng shì de guāng huī yǔ róng yào xià miàn.
[02:23.42] yí gè guāng huī zhào yào de chéng shì huò zhě zhǐ shì cún zài yú zǒng tǒng cóng tā bái gōng de mén láng hé nóng chǎng de yáng tái shàng suǒ néng dá dào de shì xiàn lǐ miàn, zài zhè gè shì xiàn lǐ miàn dí měi ge rén dōu gǎn jué hěn hǎo.
[02:36.26] dàn shì chú cǐ zhī wài hái yǒu lìng wài yí gè chéng shì, zài zhè gè guāng máng yào yǎn de chéng shì lǐ miàn yǒu zhè yàng yí gè bù fèn.
[02:44.35] zài zhè gè bù fèn lǐ miàn yǒu yī xiē rén hái bù qǐ tā men de dǐ yā dài kuǎn, dà bù fèn de nián qīng rén yòu dài bú dào kuǎn.
[02:52.00] zài zhè gè bù fèn lǐ miàn xué shēng men bù néng dé dào tā men yīng gāi dé dào de jiào yù, ér tā men zuò wéi zhōng chǎn jiē jí de fù mǔ zhǐ néng yǎn zhēng zhēng de kàn zhe wèi hòu dài bǎo yǒu de mèng xiǎng zhèng zài zhēng fā.
[03:04.00] zài zhè gè chéng shì lǐ miàn yǒu bǐ yǐ qián gèng duō de qióng rén.
[03:09.12] gèng duō de jiā tíng chǔ zài má fán jiāo lǜ zhōng, yuè lái yuè duō de rén xū yào bāng zhù dàn shì tā men què dé bú dào bāng zhù.
[03:17.20] gèng huài de shì, nà lǐ yǒu lǎo rén men zhèng duǒ zài fáng zi de dì xià shì lǐ sè sè fā dǒu.
[03:27.14] ér qiě yǒu rén shèn zhì shuì zài mǎ lù shàng, shuì zài shuǐ gōu lǐ, shuì zài nèi xiē zǒng tǒng suǒ wèi de" chéng shì de guāng máng" zhào yào bú dào de dì fāng.
[03:38.52] zài yóu tài rén shè qū, nèi xiē nián qīng rén méi yǒu gōng zuò, dé bú dào jiào yù.
[03:45.56] měi tiān zhǐ néng bǎ tā men de shí jiān làng fèi zài xī dú huò zhě fàn dú shàng.
[03:55.02] ér zài nèi xiē dì fāng, zhǐ yǒu jué wàng!
[04:01.70] zǒng tǒng xiān shēng, ér zài nèi xiē dì fāng, zhǐ yǒu jué wàng!
[04:06.18] yǒu yī xiē miàn kǒng nǐ méi yǒu kàn dào,
[04:12.00] zài nǐ suǒ wèi de yáng guāng zhī chéng lǐ miàn, yǒu yī xiē dì fāng nǐ méi yǒu qù guò.
[04:21.98] zǒng tǒng xiān shēng, nǐ bì xū zhī dào zhè gè guó jiā gèng xiàng shì yí gè" shuāng chéng jì" wēi jī sì fú de guó jiā, ér bú shì shén me nǐ suǒ wèi de" guāng máng yào yǎn de chéng shì".
[04:45.33] huò xǔ, huò xǔ, zǒng tǒng xiān shēng, rú guǒ nǐ qù guò gèng duō de dì fāng, rú guǒ nǐ qù guò a bā lā qí yà, nà lǐ yǒu yī xiē rén réng rán shēng huó zài xiǎo péng zi lǐ.
[04:57.08] huò xǔ nǐ qù guò lā kè wàn nài, nà lǐ chéng qiān de shī yè gāng tiě gōng rén bù jiě wǒ men wèi shí me yào mǎi wài guó de gāng tiě.
[05:17.00] huò xǔ, zǒng tǒng xiān shēng, nǐ kě néng zài zhī jiā gē de bì nàn suǒ tíng liú guò, bìng hé nèi xiē wú jiā kě guī de rén shuō guò huà.
[05:32.60] huò xǔ, zǒng tǒng xiān shēng, nǐ kě néng xún wèn guò yí gè xū yào xún qiú bāng zhù fǔ yǎng tā de hái zi què zāo dào jù jué de nǚ rén.
[05:42.24] yīn wèi nǐ shuō guò nǐ xū yào bǎ qián huā zài cái zhèng chì zì shàng, huā zài nèi xiē dà fù háo shēn shàng, huò zhě shì huā zài wǒ men fù dān bu qǐ de dǎo dàn shēn shàng.
[05:53.33] bù wéi róng yù,
[05:55.00] bù wéi róng yào,
[05:58.13] bù wéi lì rùn,
[06:01.05] zhǐ wèi ài!
[06:04.22] bù wéi róng yù,
[06:07.21] bù wéi huān yú,
[06:10.24] bù wéi lì rùn,
[06:13.08] zhǐ wèi ài!
[06:16.32] bù wéi róng yù,
[06:19.07] bù wéi róng yào,
[06:22.11] bù wéi lì rùn,
[06:25.05] zhǐ wèi ài!
[06:28.10] bù wéi róng yù,
[06:30.92] bù wéi huān yú,
[06:34.02] bù wéi lì rùn,
[06:37.03] zhǐ wèi ài!
[06:40.38] bù wéi róng yù,
[06:43.22] bù wéi róng yào,
[06:46.03] bù wéi lì rùn,
[06:48.99] zhǐ wèi ài!
[06:51.94] bù wéi róng yù,
[06:54.89] bù wéi huān yú,
[06:57.77] bù wéi lì rùn,
[07:00.88] zhǐ wèi ài!
[07:04.02] bù wéi róng yù,
[07:06.83] bù wéi róng yào,
[07:09.81] bù wéi lì rùn,
[07:12.81] zhǐ wèi ài!
[07:15.72] bù wéi róng yù,
[07:18.55] bù wéi huān yú,
[07:21.51] bù wéi lì rùn,
[07:24.34] zhǐ wèi ài!