Thomas Dolby: "Love Is a Loaded Pistol"

譯者: HJ Liao 審譯者: Marie Wu

I've been playing TED for nearly a decade,

我為TED表演快十年了，

and I've very rarely played

但最近比較少演出

any new songs of my own.

我自己創作的新曲子。

And that was largely because there weren't any.

主要還是因為最近沒什麼新的作品。

(Laughter)

（笑聲）

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

我呢，最近在忙著進行一些計畫，

and one of them was this:

其中一個計畫，

The Nutmeg.

叫肉豆蔻號（Nutmeg），

A 1930s ship's lifeboat,

這是一艘1930年代的救生船，

which I've been restoring in the garden

放在我英國海邊小屋的花園裏，

of my beach house in England.

我正著手整修。

And, so now,

現在呢，

when the polar ice caps melt,

假如極地冰帽融化了，

my recording studio will rise up like an ark,

我的錄音工作室就會浮起來，像諾亞方舟一樣，

and I'll float off into the drowned world

而我就在被水淹沒的世界上載浮載沉，

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

像巴拉德（J. G. Ballard）小説中的角色一樣。

During the day,

白天的時候，

the Nutmeg collects energy

肉豆蔻號會收集能源，

from solar panels on the roof of the wheelhouse,

她的舵手室上方有太陽能面板，

and from a 450 watt turbine

桅杆上也有450瓦的

up the mast.

風電渦輪。

So that when it gets dark,

所以，天黑的時候，

I've got plenty of power.

我會有充足的能源。

And I can light up the Nutmeg like a beacon.

我可以讓肉豆蔻號如火炬般發出光亮。

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

然後我會待在肉豆蔻號裏，直到凌晨時分。

and I work on new songs.

我就在裏頭作我的音樂。

I'd like to play to you guys,

我想獻給各位，

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

如果你們願意當我的第一號聽眾。

(Applause)

（掌聲）

It's about Billie Holiday.

這首曲子是關於比莉‧哈樂代。

And it appears that,

據說，

some night in 1947

在1947年的某個夜晚，

she left her physical space

她從這世上，

and was missing all night,

消失了一整晚，

until she reappeared in the morning.

直到隔天早上才又出現。

But I know where she was.

不過我知道她在哪兒。

She was with me on my lifeboat.

她和我在一起，在我的船上，

And she was hot.

而且，她熱情如火。

(Music)

（音樂）

♫ Billie crept softly ♫

比莉輕輕地進入

♫ into my waking arms ♫

我清醒的懷中

♫ warm like a sip of sour mash ♫

溫熱如啜飲酸醪酒漿

♫ Strange fruit for ♫

奇妙的果實滋味（Strange Fruit為哈樂代演唱的名曲）

♫ a sweet hunk of trash ♫

甜膩的無用之物

♫ Panic at the stage door ♫

在卡內基演奏廳上台前

♫ of Carnegie Hall ♫

張惶失措

♫ "Famous Jazz Singer Gone AWOL" ♫

爵士名伶臨陣脫逃

♫ Must have left the building ♫

非離開這裏不可

♫ body and soul ♫

我的人和我的心

♫ On a creaky ♫

今晚

♫ piano stool tonight ♫

在這搖搖欲墜的鋼琴椅上

♫ as the moon is my ♫

只有月亮

♫ only witness ♫

為我見證

♫ She was breathing ♫

她的氣息

♫ in my ear ♫

在我耳邊

♫ "This time it's love" ♫

這，是愛情

♫ But love is a loaded pistol ♫

但愛情像上了膛的手槍

♫ By daybreak she's gone ♫

破曉前她已離去

♫ Over the frozen river, home ♫

穿過冰封的河流，她回家了

♫ Me and Johnny Walker ♫

只剩我和Johnny Walker(酒名)

♫ See in the new age ♫

在新世紀裏的

♫ alone ♫

孤獨身影

♫ Stay with me ♫

留下來陪我

♫ again tonight ♫

今晚，再一次

♫ Billie, time, ♫

比莉，

♫ time is a wily trickster ♫

時間愛作弄人

♫ Still an echo ♫

但我心中

♫ in my heart says, ♫

仍然有聲音回盪，說

♫ "This time it's love" ♫

這，就是愛情

(Applause)

（掌聲）