距離 2017 年發的上一張專輯 Melodrama 後,紐西蘭歌手兼詞曲創作者 Lorde 於 2021 年 8 月 20 日發行了她的第 3 張錄音專輯 Solar Power ,這首 The Man with the Axe 就是收錄於新專輯中的第 7 首歌曲。
歌詞中文翻譯
If I had to break it down
如果我得分析它
I’d say it’s the way you love to dance
我會說是你愛跳舞的方式
Movin’ the furniture when my back is turned
當我的背轉到時移動家具
The flick of the lights and the world falls away
燈光閃爍,然後世界崩落退去
And your office job and your silver hair
還有你的辦公室工作和你的白頭髮
But our shapes in the dark are the reason I’ve stayed
但我們在黑暗中的形狀是我留下的原因
For all these years
這麼多年以來
I thought I was a genius, but now I’m twenty-two
我以為我是個天才,但現在我二十二歲
And it’s startin’ to feel like all I know how to do is
而這開始感覺像是我知道怎麼做的只有
Put on a suit and take it away
穿上一件套裝然後放手去做
With my fistful of tunes that it’s painful to play
和我一大把彈奏起來很痛苦的音調一起
Fingernail worlds like favourite seashells
手指甲形成一個像最喜歡的貝殼的世界
They fill up my nights and then they float away
他們填充著我的夜晚然後漂浮走
I’ve got hundreds of gowns, I’ve got paintings in frames
我有幾百件禮服,我有裱框的畫作
And a throat that fills with panic every festival day
和一個在每個節慶都充滿恐慌的喉嚨
Dutifully fallin’ apart for the Princess of Norway
盡職盡責的為了挪威公主崩解
But you with your doll’s lashes, your infinite T-shirts
但你和你洋娃娃般的睫毛,你無限的 T 恤
I should’ve known when your favourite record was the same as my father’s
我早該知道的,當你最喜歡的唱片和我父親的一樣時
You’d take me down
你會讓我深陷
I guess I’ll always be this way
我猜我一直都會這樣
Swallowed up by the words and halfway to space
被字句吞沒在前往太空的半路上
But there by the fire, you offered your hand
但在火焰的旁邊,你伸出你的手
And as I took it, I loved you, the boy with the plan
當我牽起它時,我愛你,有計畫的男孩
You felled me clean as a pine
你將我像棵松樹般乾淨的砍倒
The man with the axe and the look in his eyes
那個有斧頭和眼神在他眼中的男人
We’ve been through so many hard times
我們走過這麼多艱難的時光
I’m writin’ a love song for you, baby
我在寫一首情歌給你,寶貝