Ballad of the Great Eastern

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

歌词

[00:09.550] In 18 hundred and 59, the engineer Brunel,
[00:12.860]
[00:13.910] Would build the greatest ship afloat,
[00:15.920] and rule the ocean's swell.
[00:17.420]
[00:18.340] Nineteen thousand tons of steel
[00:20.410] they used to shape the mighty keel,
[00:22.770] Forged inside the smelter where
[00:24.460]
[00:25.020] they made the gates of Hell...
[00:27.020]
[00:28.140] And the name upon the contract,
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[00:30.640] Isambard Brunel.
[00:31.700]
[00:36.190] As day-by-day the monster grew,
[00:38.440] the engineer Brunel,
[00:39.550]
[00:40.680] Would watch the devil's handiwork,
[00:42.550] and woe betide a man who shirks,
[00:44.430]
[00:45.110] Or slows the pace to build the keel,
[00:47.370] nineteen thousand tons of steel,
[00:49.180]
[00:49.920] Anyone with eyes to see is but a bride of Hell,
[00:53.230]
[00:54.100] And the name upon the draftsman's chart, Isambard Brunel.
[00:59.030]
[01:03.090] A riveter was on the hull with his apprentice lad,
[01:06.460]
[01:07.400] He'd served his time with the older man,
[01:09.770] some say it was his dad.
[01:11.080]
[01:11.830] 200 men upon the shift but when the day is done,
[01:15.310]
[01:16.200] The count is hundred 98...before the setting sun,
[01:21.120]
[01:21.740] They searched the yard
[01:23.200] all through the night until the morning bell,
[01:25.010] No more delays are countenanced by Isambard Brunel,
[01:29.430]
[01:30.550] And so they work a double shift,
[01:32.870] to make the time in full,
[01:34.180]
[01:35.230] No mention of the missing men...they seal the double hull.
[01:41.350]
[01:59.020] The ship was launched upon the tide
[02:00.890] and all the townsfolk cheered,
[02:02.260]
[02:03.310] A brass band played
[02:04.760] but not a word of omens they had feared,
[02:06.690]
[02:07.680] But before the afternoon was out,
[02:09.810] the celebration wrecked,
[02:10.930]
[02:11.990] A dignitary clutched his heart...and collapsed upon the deck.
[02:16.550]
[02:17.170] No doctors could revive him
[02:19.230] as the telegraphs would tell,
[02:20.600]
[02:21.600] And the name upon the coffin...Isambard Brunel.
[02:26.280]
[02:34.520] And now upon the open sea, the mighty ship did plough,
[02:37.950]
[02:38.950] But many feared the darkness, in the shadow of its prow.
[02:42.070]
[02:42.940] An explosion on the lower deck, would take the souls of five,
[02:46.560]
[02:47.580] With a growing superstition 'mong the sailors still alive.
[02:50.950]
[02:54.190] The captain and his boy are lost while rowing to the shore,
[02:57.120]
[02:58.120] The crew will threaten mutiny and say they'll work no more,
[03:01.690]
[03:02.550] They began to say the ship was cursed,
[03:04.930] they hadn't even seen the worst,
[03:06.380]
[03:07.000] They'd signed on able-bodied men,
[03:09.140] but they wouldn't sail to Hell...
[03:10.500]
[03:12.320] When the name upon the manifest is Isambard Brunel.
[03:15.820]
[03:20.440] For 14 years that ship will sail,
[03:22.240]
[03:23.300] misfortune taken hard,
[03:24.430]
[03:25.610] The owners barely find a crew to reach the breakers' yard.
[03:28.790]
[03:29.720] And as they take the plates apart,
[03:31.540] unseal the double hull,
[03:33.410]
[03:34.470] The breakers call the foreman o'er,
[03:36.090]
[03:37.210] they'd found a human skull.
[03:38.410]
[03:40.020] And then they find the younger man,
[03:41.520]
[03:42.450] perforced to understand,
[03:43.400]
[03:44.640] That in the hour of their torment,
[03:46.270]
[03:47.010] he'd reached his father's hand.
[03:49.080]
[03:53.010] In 18 hundred and 59, the engineer Brunel,
[03:56.380]
[03:57.440] Would build the greatest ship afloat,
[03:59.560] and rule the mighty swell.
[04:00.990]
[04:01.870] The final shift was over, and the breakers' hammers fell,
[04:05.480]
[04:06.230] And the name upon the manifest,
[04:07.850]
[04:08.420] the contract signed in Hell,
[04:09.920]
[04:10.660] Was the same as on the draftsman's chart...one Isambard Brunel.

歌词大意

[00:09.550] yī bā wǔ jiǔ, gōng chéng shī bù lǔ nèi ěr
[00:13.910] jiāng dǎ zào hǎi shàng zuì dà de chuán
[00:15.920] lái zhēng fú xīng chén dà hǎi
[00:18.340] yī wàn jiǔ qiān dūn gāng cái
[00:20.410] tā men yòng lái sù zào qiáng dà de lóng gǔ
[00:22.770] zài yě liàn chǎng zhōng duàn zào
[00:25.020] tā men zuò le dì yù zhī mén...
[00:28.140] zài hé tóng shàng de qiān míng
[00:30.640] shì yī sāng bā dé bù lǔ nèi ěr
[00:36.190] guài wù yì tiān tiān dì zhǎng dà
[00:38.440] gōng chéng shī bù lǔ nèi ěr
[00:40.680] huì kàn dào mó guǐ de jié zuò
[00:42.550] zāi nàn fā shēng zài tuī xiè zé rèn de rén shēn shàng
[00:45.110] huò zhě jiǎn huǎn dǎ zào lóng gǔ de bù fá
[00:47.370] yī wàn jiǔ qiān dūn gāng
[00:49.920] zhǐ yào yǒu yǎn jīng de rén dōu néng kàn chū bù guò shì dì yù de xīn niáng
[00:54.100] zài huì tú yuán de yī lán, xiě zhe bù lǔ nèi ěr de míng zì
[01:03.090] yí gè mǎo gōng hé tā de nián qīng xué tú zài chuán tǐ shàng
[01:07.400] tā bǎ qīng chūn fú wù yú zhè gè lǎo nán rén
[01:09.770] yǒu rén shuō nà shi tā de fù qīn
[01:11.830] dāng yì tiān jié shù liǎng bǎi rén xià bān
[01:16.200] dàn zài rì luò qián zhǐ shù dào le 198 gè rén
[01:21.740] tā men sōu zhā le yuàn zi
[01:23.200] tōng xiāo dá dàn, zhí dào chén zhōng
[01:25.010] méi yǒu zài tuō yán xià qù shì yóu yú bù lǔ nèi ěr zòng róng
[01:30.550] suǒ yǐ tā men jiā bèi gōng zuò
[01:32.870] quán lì gǎn gōng wán chéng
[01:35.230] méi rén tí qǐ shī zōng de rén... tā men mì fēng le shuāng ké
[01:59.020] chuán jí jiāng chéng fēng pò làng
[02:00.890] suǒ yǒu de xiāng qīn huān hū què yuè
[02:03.310] tóng guǎn yuè duì zòu xiǎng yuè zhāng
[02:04.760] méi yǒu fā shēng tā men dān xīn de yù zhào
[02:07.680] dàn zài xià wǔ jié shù zhī qián
[02:09.810] qìng diǎn bèi pò huài le
[02:11.990] yí gè gāo guān wǔ zhù xiōng kǒu... hūn dǎo zài jiǎ bǎn shàng
[02:17.170] méi yǒu yī shēng kě yǐ huī fù tā
[02:19.230] yīn wèi diàn bào yě duàn le
[02:21.600] ér zài guān cái shàng de míng zì... shì yī sāng bā dé bù lǔ nèi ěr
[02:34.520] ér xiàn zài zài máng máng dà hǎi zhōng, yī sōu jù lún lí guò
[02:38.950] dàn kǒng jù qián cáng zài hēi àn zhōng, zài chuán tóu de yīn yǐng lǐ
[02:42.940] xià jiǎ bǎn fā shēng bào zhà, dài zǒu wǔ gè líng hún
[02:47.580] mí xìn zài hái cún huó de shuǐ shǒu zhōng chuán bō kāi lái
[02:54.190] chuán zhǎng hé tā de ér zài huà xiàng àn biān shí shī zōng
[02:58.120] chuán yuán men wēi xié pàn biàn shuō tā men bú huì zài gōng zuò le
[03:02.550] tā men kāi shǐ shuō chuán bèi zǔ zhòu
[03:04.930] tā men shèn zhì méi yǒu jiàn guò de zuì zāo gāo de
[03:07.000] tā men qiān yuē gù yòng le zhuàng dīng
[03:09.140] dàn tā men bú huì zài shǐ xiàng dì yù...
[03:12.320] lǚ kè míng dān zhōng de míng zì yǒu yī sāng bā dé bù lǔ nèi ěr
[03:20.440] shí sì nián hòu
[03:23.300] gāi chuán bó bù xìng bèi qiáng zhì chāi jiě
[03:25.610] yè zhǔ zhōng yú zhǎo dào yí ge rén dào dá fēn jiě yuán de yuàn zi lǐ
[03:29.720] dāng tā men bǎ jīn shǔ bǎn fēn kāi
[03:31.540] jiě fēng shuāng ké
[03:34.470] fēn jiě yuán jiào gōng tóu guò lái
[03:37.210] tā men fā xiàn yí ge rén tóu gǔ
[03:40.020] rán hòu tā men fā xiàn nián qīng de nán rén
[03:42.450] rán hòu tā men míng bái
[03:44.640] zài chuán yuán shòu nàn de shí kè
[03:47.010] tā yǐ jīng pèng dào le tā fù qīn de shǒu
[03:53.010] yī bā wǔ jiǔ, gōng chéng shī bù lǔ nèi ěr
[03:57.440] jiāng dǎ zào hǎi shàng zuì dà de chuán
[03:59.560] lái zhēng fú xīng chén dà hǎi
[04:01.870] zuì hòu yī bān jié shù le, fēn jiě yuán de chuí zi diào zài dì shàng
[04:06.230] bìng zài qīng dān zhōng de míng zì
[04:08.420] zài dì yù qiān dìng de hé tóng
[04:10.660] hé zhì tú yuán de nà yī lán yí yàng... dōu shì yī sāng bā dé bù lǔ nèi ěr