Ballad Of The Great Eastern

歌曲 Ballad Of The Great Eastern
歌手 Sting
专辑 The Last Ship (Deluxe)

歌词

[00:00.68] Ballad of the Great Eastern - Sting
[00:08.35] In 18 hundred and 59, the engineer Brunel,
[00:11.66]
[00:12.71] Would build the greatest ship afloat,
[00:14.72] and rule the ocean's swell.
[00:16.22]
[00:17.14] Nineteen thousand tons of steel
[00:19.21] they used to shape the mighty keel,
[00:21.57] Forged inside the smelter where
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[00:23.82] they made the gates of Hell...
[00:25.82]
[00:26.94] And the name upon the contract,
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[00:29.44] Isambard Brunel.
[00:30.50]
[00:34.99] As day-by-day the monster grew,
[00:37.24] the engineer Brunel,
[00:38.35]
[00:39.48] Would watch the devil's handiwork,
[00:41.35] and woe betide a man who shirks,
[00:43.23]
[00:43.91] Or slows the pace to build the keel,
[00:46.17] nineteen thousand tons of steel,
[00:47.98]
[00:48.72] Anyone with eyes to see is but a bride of Hell,
[00:52.03]
[00:52.90] And the name upon the draftsman's chart, Isambard Brunel.
[00:57.83]
[01:01.89] A riveter was on the hull with his apprentice lad,
[01:05.26]
[01:06.20] He'd served his time with the older man,
[01:08.57] some say it was his dad.
[01:09.88]
[01:10.63] 200 men upon the shift but when the day is done,
[01:14.11]
[01:15.00] The count is hundred 98...before the setting sun,
[01:19.92]
[01:20.54] They searched the yard
[01:22.00] all through the night until the morning bell,
[01:23.81] No more delays are countenanced by Isambard Brunel,
[01:28.23]
[01:29.35] And so they work a double shift,
[01:31.67] to make the time in full,
[01:32.98]
[01:34.03] No mention of the missing men...they seal the double hull.
[01:40.15]
[01:57.82] The ship was launched upon the tide
[01:59.69] and all the townsfolk cheered,
[02:01.06]
[02:02.11] A brass band played
[02:03.56] but not a word of omens they had feared,
[02:05.49]
[02:06.48] But before the afternoon was out,
[02:08.61] the celebration wrecked,
[02:09.73]
[02:10.79] A dignitary clutched his heart...and collapsed upon the deck.
[02:15.35]
[02:15.97] No doctors could revive him
[02:18.03] as the telegraphs would tell,
[02:19.40]
[02:20.40] And the name upon the coffin...Isambard Brunel.
[02:25.08]
[02:33.32] And now upon the open sea, the mighty ship did plough,
[02:36.75]
[02:37.75] But many feared the darkness, in the shadow of its prow.
[02:40.87]
[02:41.74] An explosion on the lower deck, would take the souls of five,
[02:45.36]
[02:46.38] With a growing superstition 'mong the sailors still alive.
[02:49.75]
[02:52.99] The captain and his boy are lost while rowing to the shore,
[02:55.92]
[02:56.92] The crew will threaten mutiny and say they'll work no more,
[03:00.49]
[03:01.35] They began to say the ship was cursed,
[03:03.73] they hadn't even seen the worst,
[03:05.18]
[03:05.80] They'd signed on able-bodied men,
[03:07.94] but they wouldn't sail to Hell...
[03:09.30]
[03:11.12] When the name upon the manifest is Isambard Brunel.
[03:14.62]
[03:19.24] For 14 years that ship will sail,
[03:21.04]
[03:22.10] misfortune taken hard,
[03:23.23]
[03:24.41] The owners barely find a crew to reach the breakers' yard.
[03:27.59]
[03:28.52] And as they take the plates apart,
[03:30.34] unseal the double hull,
[03:32.21]
[03:33.27] The breakers call the foreman o'er,
[03:34.89]
[03:36.01] they'd found a human skull.
[03:37.21]
[03:38.82] And then they find the younger man,
[03:40.32]
[03:41.25] perforced to understand,
[03:42.20]
[03:43.44] That in the hour of their torment,
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[03:45.81] he'd reached his father's hand.
[03:47.88]
[03:51.81] In 18 hundred and 59, the engineer Brunel,
[03:55.18]
[03:56.24] Would build the greatest ship afloat,
[03:58.36] and rule the mighty swell.
[03:59.79]
[04:00.67] The final shift was over, and the breakers' hammers fell,
[04:04.28]
[04:05.03] And the name upon the manifest,
[04:06.65]
[04:07.22] the contract signed in Hell,
[04:08.72]
[04:09.46] Was the same as on the draftsman's chart...one Isambard Brunel.

歌词大意

[00:00.68] dōng fāng mín yáo sī tīng
[00:08.35] yī bā wǔ jiǔ, gōng chéng shī bù lǔ nèi ěr
[00:12.71] jiāng dǎ zào hǎi shàng zuì dà de chuán
[00:14.72] lái zhēng fú xīng chén dà hǎi
[00:17.14] yī wàn jiǔ qiān dūn gāng cái
[00:19.21] tā men yòng lái sù zào qiáng dà de lóng gǔ
[00:21.57] zài yě liàn chǎng zhōng duàn zào
[00:23.82] tā men zuò le dì yù zhī mén...
[00:26.94] zài hé tóng shàng de qiān míng
[00:29.44] shì yī sāng bā dé bù lǔ nèi ěr
[00:34.99] guài wù yì tiān tiān dì zhǎng dà
[00:37.24] gōng chéng shī bù lǔ nèi ěr
[00:39.48] huì kàn dào mó guǐ de jié zuò
[00:41.35] zāi nàn fā shēng zài tuī xiè zé rèn de rén shēn shàng
[00:43.91] huò zhě jiǎn huǎn dǎ zào lóng gǔ de bù fá
[00:46.17] yī wàn jiǔ qiān dūn gāng
[00:48.72] zhǐ yào yǒu yǎn jīng de rén dōu néng kàn chū bù guò shì dì yù de xīn niáng
[00:52.90] zài huì tú yuán de yī lán, xiě zhe bù lǔ nèi ěr de míng zì
[01:01.89] yí gè mǎo gōng hé tā de nián qīng xué tú zài chuán tǐ shàng
[01:06.20] tā bǎ qīng chūn fú wù yú zhè gè lǎo nán rén
[01:08.57] yǒu rén shuō nà shi tā de fù qīn
[01:10.63] dāng yì tiān jié shù liǎng bǎi rén xià bān
[01:15.00] dàn zài rì luò qián zhǐ shù dào le 198 gè rén
[01:20.54] tā men sōu zhā le yuàn zi
[01:22.00] tōng xiāo dá dàn, zhí dào chén zhōng
[01:23.81] méi yǒu zài tuō yán xià qù shì yóu yú bù lǔ nèi ěr zòng róng
[01:29.35] suǒ yǐ tā men jiā bèi gōng zuò
[01:31.67] quán lì gǎn gōng wán chéng
[01:34.03] méi rén tí qǐ shī zōng de rén... tā men mì fēng le shuāng ké
[01:57.82] chuán jí jiāng chéng fēng pò làng
[01:59.69] suǒ yǒu de xiāng qīn huān hū què yuè
[02:02.11] tóng guǎn yuè duì zòu xiǎng yuè zhāng
[02:03.56] méi yǒu fā shēng tā men dān xīn de yù zhào
[02:06.48] dàn zài xià wǔ jié shù zhī qián
[02:08.61] qìng diǎn bèi pò huài le
[02:10.79] yí gè gāo guān wǔ zhù xiōng kǒu... hūn dǎo zài jiǎ bǎn shàng
[02:15.97] méi yǒu yī shēng kě yǐ huī fù tā
[02:18.03] yīn wèi diàn bào yě duàn le
[02:20.40] ér zài guān cái shàng de míng zì... shì yī sāng bā dé bù lǔ nèi ěr
[02:33.32] ér xiàn zài zài máng máng dà hǎi zhōng, yī sōu jù lún lí guò
[02:37.75] dàn kǒng jù qián cáng zài hēi àn zhōng, zài chuán tóu de yīn yǐng lǐ
[02:41.74] xià jiǎ bǎn fā shēng bào zhà, dài zǒu wǔ gè líng hún
[02:46.38] mí xìn zài hái cún huó de shuǐ shǒu zhōng chuán bō kāi lái
[02:52.99] chuán zhǎng hé tā de ér zài huà xiàng àn biān shí shī zōng
[02:56.92] chuán yuán men wēi xié pàn biàn shuō tā men bú huì zài gōng zuò le
[03:01.35] tā men kāi shǐ shuō chuán bèi zǔ zhòu
[03:03.73] tā men shèn zhì méi yǒu jiàn guò de zuì zāo gāo de
[03:05.80] tā men qiān yuē gù yòng le zhuàng dīng
[03:07.94] dàn tā men bú huì zài shǐ xiàng dì yù...
[03:11.12] lǚ kè míng dān zhōng de míng zì yǒu yī sāng bā dé bù lǔ nèi ěr
[03:19.24] shí sì nián hòu
[03:22.10] gāi chuán bó bù xìng bèi qiáng zhì chāi jiě
[03:24.41] yè zhǔ zhōng yú zhǎo dào yí ge rén dào dá fēn jiě yuán de yuàn zi lǐ
[03:28.52] dāng tā men bǎ jīn shǔ bǎn fēn kāi
[03:30.34] jiě fēng shuāng ké
[03:33.27] fēn jiě yuán jiào gōng tóu guò lái
[03:36.01] tā men fā xiàn yí ge rén tóu gǔ
[03:38.82] rán hòu tā men fā xiàn nián qīng de nán rén
[03:41.25] rán hòu tā men míng bái
[03:43.44] zài chuán yuán shòu nàn de shí kè
[03:45.81] tā yǐ jīng pèng dào le tā fù qīn de shǒu
[03:51.81] yī bā wǔ jiǔ, gōng chéng shī bù lǔ nèi ěr
[03:56.24] jiāng dǎ zào hǎi shàng zuì dà de chuán
[03:58.36] lái zhēng fú xīng chén dà hǎi
[04:00.67] zuì hòu yī bān jié shù le, fēn jiě yuán de chuí zi diào zài dì shàng
[04:05.03] bìng zài qīng dān zhōng de míng zì
[04:07.22] zài dì yù qiān dìng de hé tóng
[04:09.46] hé zhì tú yuán de nà yī lán yí yàng... dōu shì yī sāng bā dé bù lǔ nèi ěr