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Circle game

作詞：Joni Mitchell
作曲：Joni Mitchell
編曲：東海林修

Yesterdey a child came out to wander
Caught a dragonfly insild a jar
Fearful, when the sky was full of thunder
And tearful at the falling of a star.
And the seasons
They go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We're captive on the carousel of Time
We can't return
We can only look behind from where we came
And go round and round and round
In a circlegame.

Then the child moved ten Time s round the seasone
Skated over ten clear frozen streams
Words like, when you're older, must appease him
And promise of somedey make his dreams.
And the seasons
They go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We're captive on the carousel of Time
We can't return
We can only look behind from where we came
And go round and round and round
In a circlegame.

Sixteen springs and sixteen summers gone now
Cart wheels turn car wheels through the town
And they tell him,
'Take your Time It won't by long now,
Till you drag your feet to slow the circle down'.
And the seasons
They go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We're captive on the carousel of Time
We can't return
We can only look behind from where we came
And go round and round and round
In a circlegame.

So the years spin by
And nou the boy is twenty
Though his dreams have lost
Some grandeur coming true
There'll by new drems
May by better dreams,and pienty
Before the last revolving year isthrough
And the seasons
They go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We're captive on the carousel of Time
We can't return
We can only look behind from where we came
And go round and round and round
In a circlegame.
And go round and round and round
In a circlegame.

[訳詞]

あの日子供は驚きに満ちながら
瓶にとんぼを捕まえた
空にとどろく雷鳴を恐がり
星が落ちるのをみて涙をためた

そしてその子は十の季節を過ごし
十の澄み切った氷の川を滑っていった
大人になり
夢を実現する約束を胸に
季節はめぐり鮮やかな木馬は上へ下へ
私たちは時間という回転木馬に乗り
來た道を振り返ることはできても
戻ることはできないまま
ぐるぐると時を回るだけ

十六の春と十六の夏が過ぎ去り
手押し車は自動車にすり替わり
大人たちが言う言葉は
“ゆっくり行きなさい
じきに足取りは重くなるのだから”
年月はめぐりその子は二十歳になった
失った夢もあるが栄光はこれから
新しい夢もよりよき夢も
たくさん見ることだろう
最後の年月が回り終えるまで

季節はめぐり鮮やかな木馬は上へ下へ
私たちは時間という回転木馬に乗り
來た道を振り返ることはできても
戻ることはできないまま
ぐるぐると時を回るだけ