Our History Will Be What We Make of It

歌曲 Our History Will Be What We Make of It
歌手 Maybeshewill
专辑 Sing the Word Hope in Four Part Harmony

歌词

[00:33.97] Our history will be what we make of it.
[00:37.04]
[00:40.83] and there should be preserved the kinescopes of one week of all three networks.
[00:45.54] They will there find, recorded in black and white and in color, evidence of decadence, escapism, and insulation from the realities of the world in which we live.
[01:00.29] We are currently wealthy, fat, comfortable, and complacent.
[01:04.94] We have a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information.
[01:08.88] Our mass media reflect this.
[01:12.05] But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us,
[01:21.45] then history will take its revenge and retribution will not limp in catching up with us.
[02:20.13] Ah, yes, it may be that the human race is doomed, never to learn from its mistakes.
[02:25.90] We are the only animals on this globe who periodically set out to slaughter each other.
[02:33.34] for the best, the noblest, the most inescapable of reasons.
[02:38.38] We know better.
[02:39.95] But we do it again and again in generation after generation.
[02:46.66] It may be that our empire, too, is doomed - like all those that have gone before it,
[02:53.00] to continue to spew and waste its best blood on foreign soil,
[02:59.16] no matter what we say or do in this place, or think, or believe, or have learned from history.
[03:07.69] But, thank God for us.

歌词大意

[00:33.97] wǒ men de lì shǐ jiāng yóu wǒ men lái gòu zào.
[00:37.04] And if there are any historians about 50 or 100 years from now, shǐ xué jiā jiāng zài wèi lái de 50 nián huò 100 nián,
[00:40.83] zhǎo dào sān dà diàn shì wǎng bǎo cún de yī xiē jì lù huà miàn.
[00:45.54] tā men jiāng huì fā xiàn zhè hēi bái huò cǎi sè de huà miàn zhé shè chū wǒ men zài duì xiàn shí shì jiè shí de duò luò táo bì yǐ jí zhì ruò wǎng wén.
[01:00.29] xiàn zài de wǒ men fù yǒu yōng zhǒng ān yì bìng qiě zì mǎn.
[01:04.94] wǒ men duì lìng rén bù kuài huò fán yōu de shì wù huái yǒu yī zhǒng gù yǒu de dǐ chù.
[01:08.88] wǒ men de dà zhòng chuán méi tǐ xiàn le zhè yì diǎn.
[01:12.05] chú fēi wǒ men lì kè cóng zhè zhǒng zì mǎn zhōng jǐng xǐng bìng rèn shi dào wǒ men de diàn shì yè dà tǐ shàng zhèng bèi yòng lái zuò wéi fēn huà gǔ huò xiāo qiǎn hé gé lí wǒ men,
[01:21.45] nà me lì shǐ jiāng fù chóu, chéng fá jiāng bú huì tíng zhǐ zhuī gǎn wǒ men.
[02:20.13] yě xǔ rén lèi zhù dìng yǒng yuǎn bú huì cóng cuò wù zhōng jí qǔ jīng yàn.
[02:25.90] wǒ men shì zhè gè dì qiú shàng wéi yí dìng qī tú shā bǐ cǐ de dòng wù,
[02:33.34] yīn wèi zuì hǎo de zuì gāo guì zuì bù kě táo bì de lǐ yóu.
[02:38.38] wǒ men gèng míng bái le.
[02:39.95] dàn wǒ men yī dài yòu yī dài zhōu ér fù shǐ.
[02:46.66] yě xǔ wǒ men de dì guó, yě zhù dìng xiàng zhī qián nèi xiē yǐ jīng miè wáng de,
[02:53.00] jì xù zài wài guó pái fàng hé làng fèi zuì zhèng tǒng de xuè yè,
[02:59.16] bù guǎn wǒ men zài cǐ shuō huò zuò shí mǒ, huò sī kǎo, huò xiāng xìn, huò zhě cóng lì shǐ zhōng xī qǔ le jiào xùn.
[03:07.69] dàn, réng gǎn xiè shàng dì.