A Closing Word (feat. James)

What is it to be a man?
做一個男人意味著什麼？
Is it to be romantic?
意味著浪漫？
Fueling its own nostalgia
以在戰鬥中赴死之夢
With dreams of death in battle
作自己懷舊之情的燃料
Submitting its body to hard privations
屈從軀體於艱苦的清貧
Gaining the curse of martyrdom
換得殉道之詛咒
Leaving this world in a blind and passionate fashion
以一種盲目而熱情的方式離開此世
In the arms of a consuming mistress
死在一個消瘦女郎的懷中
Stupidly jumping off the schlafen berg
愚蠢地從沉睡之山（德語）跳下
Dying on a piano, of an unexpected but inevitable sickness
死在一架鋼琴上，死於一種出乎意料卻不可避免的疾病
With a still dripping quill in the left hand
左手握著一桿仍在滴墨的羽毛筆
Depicting unbalanced emotions in sheet music
在樂譜上描繪你失衡的情緒
A deforming lens
一個畸變的鏡頭
Aimed at a small fraction of the human catalogue
聚焦於人類物種中的一個小分支
Or, in the case of our contemporaries
或者說，就我們這一代人而言
Depicting a long over exploited duality between good and evil
描述一種長久以來被過度開發的二元性——善與惡
As if the choice was a puzzling dilemma
就好像善惡之間的抉擇是一個令人費解的困境一樣
Attacking a God, killed over three centuries ago
攻訐一位三個世紀前就已被殺死的神
Counter facing the camera you borrowed money to pay for
背對著你借錢買的相機
Implying references to esoteric Delphies
引用一些只有小圈子才懂的梗
Creating a non existing mystery around oneself
在自身周圍營造一種子虛烏有的神秘感
What is it to be a woman?
做一個女人又意味著什麼？
Being sad on a beach,
在沙灘上感傷
A long monologue glorifying impossible loves
一串長獨白來美化那些'不可能實現的戀情'
Smoking cigarettes with boredom
透著倦怠，吸著煙
Enacting its own death in a car accident
在一場車禍裡飾演自己的死亡
Maybe quit it all at 27
也許在27歲時放棄這一切
Impressing some naive teenagers
打動一些天真的青少年
Who can't but think that suffering is deep
那些孩子思維尚淺，只能認為，痛苦即深沉
Clearly, there must be some other themes
顯然，一定存在一些其他的主題
Who please both to mind and body
能同時取悅精神與肉體
While petitioning for genius and greatness
在祈求天才與偉大的同時
Maybe give a listen to Fauré and Bach
也許去聽聽佛瑞與巴赫
To the Greeks, Mill, and ironically, the great Goethe
聽聽希臘諸哲、約翰·穆勒（John Stuart Mill），以及，諷刺地，偉大的歌德是怎麼說的
They are all brilliant men who worked hard
他們都是才華橫溢的，努力工作的人
… Still, they can't be placed above manly affairs
但他們不能被置於“男人事務”之上
Because, concerning those, no one ever saw nor heard
因為，關於那些，無人見過也無人聽過
They remain interesting as photographs
它們作為照片仍是有趣的
Which depict some of many human features
刻畫了諸多人類特性中的一些方面