Thomas Dolby: "Love Is a Loaded Pistol"

Prevoditelj: Davorin Jelačić Recezent: Tilen Pigac - EFZG

I've been playing TED for nearly a decade,

Već gotovo desetljeće sviram na TED-u

and I've very rarely played

i vrlo sam rijetko svirao

any new songs of my own.

svoje vlastite nove pjesme.

And that was largely because there weren't any.

Razlog je uvelike bio taj što i nije bilo mojih pjesama.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

So I've been busy with a couple of projects,

Pa sam bio zaokupljen nekim projektima,

and one of them was this:

a jedan od njih je ovaj,

The Nutmeg.

Nutmeg,

A 1930s ship's lifeboat,

čamac za spašavanje s broda iz 1930-tih,

which I've been restoring in the garden

kojega sam restaurirao u vrtu

of my beach house in England.

svoje kuće na engleskoj plaži.

And, so now,

I sad,

when the polar ice caps melt,

kad se polarni led otopi,

my recording studio will rise up like an ark,

moj studio za snimanje će se dići poput korablje,

and I'll float off into the drowned world

i otplutat ću potopljenim svijetom

like a character from a J.G. Ballard novel.

poput lika iz romana J.G. Ballarda.

During the day,

Danju,

the Nutmeg collects energy

Nutmeg skuplja energiju

from solar panels on the roof of the wheelhouse,

iz solarnih panela na krovu kabine,

and from a 450 watt turbine

i iz turbine od 450 watta

up the mast.

na vrhu jarbola.

So that when it gets dark,

Pa kad se smrači,

I've got plenty of power.

imam puno struje.

And I can light up the Nutmeg like a beacon.

I mogu Nutmega upaliti poput svjetionika.

And so I go in there until the early hours of the morning,

Pa sam na njemu do ranih jutarnjih sati.

and I work on new songs.

I radim na novim pjesmama.

I'd like to play to you guys,

Volio bih vam svirati, ljudi,

if you're willing to be the first audience to hear it.

ako želite biti prva publika koja će ovo čuti.

(Applause)

(Pljesak)

It's about Billie Holiday.

Pjesma je o Billie Holiday.

And it appears that,

Čini se da je,

some night in 1947

jedne noći 1947. godine,

she left her physical space

ona napustila svoj fizički prostor

and was missing all night,

i nije je bilo cijele noći,

until she reappeared in the morning.

dok se nije ponovno pojavila ujutro.

But I know where she was.

No, ja znam gdje je bila.

She was with me on my lifeboat.

Bila je sa mnom na mom čamcu za spašavanje.

And she was hot.

Bila je strašno privlačna.

(Music)

(Glazba)

♫ Billie crept softly ♫

♫ Billie se uvukla meko ♫

♫ into my waking arms ♫

♫ u moj razbuđeni zagrljaj ♫

♫ warm like a sip of sour mash ♫

♫ topla poput gutljaja kiselog pića ♫

♫ Strange fruit for ♫

♫ Čudno voće za ♫

♫ a sweet hunk of trash ♫

♫ slatku gomilu smeća ♫

♫ Panic at the stage door ♫

♫ Panika na ulazu na binu ♫

♫ of Carnegie Hall ♫

♫ Carnegie Halla ♫

♫ "Famous Jazz Singer Gone AWOL" ♫

♫ "Slavna jazz pjevačica nestala" ♫

♫ Must have left the building ♫

♫ Mora da je napustila zgradu ♫

♫ body and soul ♫

♫ tijelom i dušom ♫

♫ On a creaky ♫

♫ Na škripavom ♫

♫ piano stool tonight ♫

♫ klavirskom stolcu noćas ♫

♫ as the moon is my ♫

♫ dok mi je Mjesec ♫

♫ only witness ♫

♫ jedini svjedok ♫

♫ She was breathing ♫

♫ Disala mi je ♫

♫ in my ear ♫

♫ u uho ♫

♫ "This time it's love" ♫

♫ "Ovoga puta, ljubav je to" ♫

♫ But love is a loaded pistol ♫

♫ Ali ljubav je nabijen pištolj ♫

♫ By daybreak she's gone ♫

♫ Prije zore, ona odlazi ♫

♫ Over the frozen river, home ♫

♫ Preko smrznute rijeke, kući ♫

♫ Me and Johnny Walker ♫

♫ Ja i Johnny Walker ♫

♫ See in the new age ♫

♫ Pogledaj u novo doba ♫

♫ alone ♫

♫ sam ♫

♫ Stay with me ♫

♫ Ostani sa mnom ♫

♫ again tonight ♫

♫ ponovno večeras ♫

♫ Billie, time, ♫

♫ Billie, vrijeme, ♫

♫ time is a wily trickster ♫

♫ je lukava varalica ♫

♫ Still an echo ♫

♫ U srcu, jeka mi ♫

♫ in my heart says, ♫

♫ još uvijek kaže, ♫

♫ "This time it's love" ♫

♫ "Ovoga puta je ljubav" ♫

(Applause)

(Pljesak)