Ninth Avenue Reverie

You say you want to be buried beneath a mango tree
你说你想葬在芒果树下
Where if in the northern summer you come back to life
若你在北方的夏季再度苏醒
You say you want your ashes mixed up with your lover’s salt
你的灵魂将于你的爱人融为一体
Where every Sunday night he’ll eat a little more of you
每周日的夜晚他会啃噬着你的一切
You say you can’t stop crying, it’s just the power of the song
你说你无法停止泪水，这首歌是你最后的希冀
Riding on the midnight bus again
当你再次乘坐午夜的巴士
And you say that you loved him but you were just too young
你依旧深爱着他，但却也太过年轻
You say that’s why you still wait in the rain
“这就是为何我还在雨中苦苦等待”
You say a lot of things
你诉说了很多

你的父亲是一个业余的画家
And you say that your daddy was a painter of sorts
但我从未见过他画过什么
But I never saw him paint a thing
他只是把乘着颜料的罐头放在床下
He just kept the tins underneath his bed
每晚沉浸在色彩的气息中
And sniffed a different colour every night
幻想着天空中有一个地方
And dreamed of a place up in the sky
每个人都是画家，到死都是
Where everyone’s a painter till they die
你说你不喜欢畅游于苍穹之中

即使是海鸟也会感到孤苦
You say you don’t like flying on aeroplanes
你将在下一个轮回到来之时舍弃你曾拥有的一切
That even seabirds must get lonely out there
你曾惊艳于我的美貌
You said you were quitting after your next pack
但与那些漂亮的北京女士相比却略逊一筹
And you said once that I was beautiful
请让我一醉方休
But for all the pretty ladies in Beijing
你诉说着
I couldn’t stop my drinking
你倾诉着
And you say a lot of
你倾吐着那些往事
You say a lot of
你总是幻想着命赴黄泉那天
You say a lot of things
所有的老友都会为你落泪

我会手捧玫瑰站在后面
You say you can’t stop dreaming about your funeral day
我会将死后的一切赋予你
Where all your long-time friends will be crying for you
And I’d be up the back with a rose in my hand
And I’d give to you in death what I could not in life