Thomas Dolby: "Love Is a Loaded Pistol"

Prevodilac: William Heisenberg Lektor: Ivana Korom

I've been playing TED for nearly a decade,

Već gotovo deceniju sviram na TED-u.

and I've very rarely played

i vrlo sam retko svirao

any new songs of my own.

svoje vlastite nove pesme.

And that was largely because there weren't any.

Razlog je uveliko bio taj što i nije bilo mojih pesama.

(Laughter)

(Smeh)

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

Pa sam bio zauzet nekim projektima,

and one of them was this:

a jedan od njih je ovaj,

The Nutmeg.

Natmeg

A 1930s ship's lifeboat,

čamac za spašavanje sa broda iz 1930-ih,

which I've been restoring in the garden

koga sam rekonstruisao u vrtu

of my beach house in England.

svoje kuće na engleskoj plaži.

And, so now,

I sad,

when the polar ice caps melt,

kada se polarni led otopi,

my recording studio will rise up like an ark,

moj studio za snimanje dići će se poput barke,

and I'll float off into the drowned world

a ja ću uploviti u svet dubina

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

kao i lik iz Dž. G. Balardove novele.

During the day,

U toku dana,

the Nutmeg collects energy

Natmeg skuplja energiju

from solar panels on the roof of the wheelhouse,

sa solarnih ploča na krovu brodske kućice,

and from a 450 watt turbine

i iz turbine od 450 vati

up the mast.

na vrhu jarbola.

So that when it gets dark,

Pa kada padne sumrak,

I've got plenty of power.

imam mnogo struje.

And I can light up the Nutmeg like a beacon.

I mogu Natmega upaliti poput svetionika.

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 pesmama.

I'd like to play to you guys,

Voleo 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)

(Aplauz)

It's about Billie Holiday.

Pesma govori o Bili Holidej.

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 čitave noći,

until she reappeared in the morning.

dok se nije ponovo pojavila ujutru.

But I know where she was.

Ali, ja znam gde 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)

(Muzika)

♫ Billie crept softly ♫

♫ Bili 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 ♫

♫ Karnegi Hola ♫

♫ "Famous Jazz Singer Gone AWOL" ♫

♫ "Slavna džez pevačica nestade" ♫

♫ Must have left the building ♫

♫ Mora da je napustila zgradu ♫

♫ body and soul ♫

♫ telom i dušom ♫

♫ On a creaky ♫

♫ Na škripavoj ♫

♫ piano stool tonight ♫

♫ klavirskoj stoličici noćas ♫

♫ as the moon is my ♫

♫ dok mi je Mesec ♫

♫ only witness ♫

♫ jedini svedok ♫

♫ 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 napunjen pištolj ♫

♫ By daybreak she's gone ♫

♫ Pre zore, ona odlazi ♫

♫ Over the frozen river, home ♫

♫ Preko zaleđene reke, kući ♫

♫ Me and Johnny Walker ♫

♫ Ja i Džoni Voker ♫

♫ See in the new age ♫

♫ Pogled u novo doba ♫

♫ alone ♫

♫ sam ♫

♫ Stay with me ♫

♫ Ostani sa mnom ♫

♫ again tonight ♫

♫ ponovo večeras ♫

♫ Billie, time, ♫

♫ Bili, vreme, ♫

♫ time is a wily trickster ♫

♫ je lukava varalica ♫

♫ Still an echo ♫

♫ I dalje eho ♫

♫ in my heart says, ♫

♫ u mom srcu govori, ♫

♫ "This time it's love" ♫

♫ "Ovoga puta je ljubav" ♫

(Applause)

(Aplauz)