Lyrics and English translation 裘德 - 磁懸浮列車

磁懸浮列車

看指示牌 我號碼在
第二站臺 單人座前排
告別擁擠的窗外

急不可耐 仍不夠快
加速無害 報紙剛攤開
世界在 身後 掠過幾個世代

消滅過程 消滅掉留白
劇情 不肯浪費 時間去加載
目不轉睛 我的未來
上一秒是否 早已 來過並衰敗

等不到一二三四 率先搶跑的飛馳
沒有方向 但潛意識 務必準時
焦慮到廢寢忘食 破譯生存的公式
太迂迴沒人做博爾赫斯

一千零一夜故事 提煉成一頁故事
轉化進大腦端口 廉價速食
啟動後無法停止 乘客表情不像是
被挾持

不夠 千奇百怪 反而更奇怪
忙碌 什麼叫賣 通通不理睬
誰是例外 誰要例外
誰懂烏龜和諾亞方舟誰先來

等不到一二三四 率先搶跑的飛馳
沒有方向 但潛意識 務必準時
焦慮到廢寢忘食 破譯生存的公式
太迂迴沒人做博爾赫斯

一千零一夜故事 提煉成一頁故事
轉化進大腦端口 廉價速食
啟動後無法停止 列車和我誰才是
負罪又天真的人質

鏡頭飛回 白堊世紀
散步的頻率 跨半球預定
有餐位的陸地

偏偏我沒胃口耗下去
生吞誰充飢 二進制的耐心
速成的羅馬今夜
就要從零寫到一

等不到一二三四 瀕臨失控的飛馳
列車員播報一次 坐回位置
安全帶安全扣死 摩擦力逐漸消失
文明神祇史詩 最後我只想起
生命中無關的小事

Maglev Train

Looking at the sign, my number's at
Platform two, front row, single seat, my love.
Farewell to the crowded window's view,

Impatient, still not fast enough for me,
Acceleration's harmless, newspaper just unfolded, see?
The world behind, sweeping past generations, you and me.

Eliminating process, eliminating the blank space we see,
The plot refuses to waste time loading, thankfully.
Eyes fixed, my future with thee,
Did the last second already come and decay, maybe?

Can't wait for one, two, three, four, this speeding train takes the lead, darling.
No direction, but the subconscious must be on time, unerringly.
Anxious to the point of forgetting food and sleep, deciphering the formula of being, constantly.
Too circuitous, no one's a Borges, you see.

A thousand and one nights' tales, refined to a single page, concisely.
Transferred to the brain's port, cheap fast food, precisely.
Once started, it can't be stopped, the passengers' expressions don't seem like they're being
Held hostage, surprisingly.

Not enough, bizarre and strange, it's even stranger, I agree.
Busy, whatever's for sale, I ignore it all, completely.
Who's the exception? Who wants to be the exception, my sweet?
Who knows who came first, the turtle or Noah's Ark, you and me?

Can't wait for one, two, three, four, this speeding train takes the lead, darling.
No direction, but the subconscious must be on time, unerringly.
Anxious to the point of forgetting food and sleep, deciphering the formula of being, constantly.
Too circuitous, no one's a Borges, you see.

A thousand and one nights' tales, refined to a single page, concisely.
Transferred to the brain's port, cheap fast food, precisely.
Once started, it can't be stopped, is it the train or me who's the
Guilty and innocent hostage, truly?

The camera flies back to the Cretaceous period, swiftly.
The frequency of walking, a transhemispheric appointment, quickly.
Land with dining space, plentifully.

But I have no appetite to waste any more time, honestly.
Swallowing someone whole to satisfy my hunger, binary patience, constantly.
Instant Rome tonight, instantly.
Will be written from zero to one, completely.

Can't wait for one, two, three, four, this speeding train's nearing out of control, alarmingly.
The conductor announces once, "Return to your seats," calmly.
Seatbelts fastened tight, friction gradually disappearing, totally.
Civilization, gods, epic poems, in the end, I only remember
The insignificant things in life, finally.