科恩和波诺同台
歌塔
莱昂纳德•科恩
王立秋 试译
哦我的朋友已经离去我的头发变得灰白
在过去游戏的地方我感到痛苦
我为爱疯狂却不能继续
我只是每天在歌塔中
付着房租
我对汉克•威廉姆斯说：现在有多孤独？
汉克•威廉姆斯还没回答我
可我听见他整夜整夜地咳嗽
在歌塔中我头上有
一百层楼
我生来如此，我没有选择
我生来具有金嗓子的天赋
来自伟大彼岸的二十七个天使
它们把我绑在这里歌塔中
的这张桌子上
所以你可以把小针按进那个巫毒娃娃
对不起，宝贝，它看起来根本不像我
我站在窗前光线最强的地方
啊在歌塔中他们不会让
一个女人杀死你
现在你可以说我变苦逼了但这点你可以确信
有钱人已经打通了他们在穷人卧室里的渠道
上帝的审判就要到来，但我可能错了
瞧，在歌塔中你会听到
这些有趣的声音
我看见你站在那边
我不知道河为神马变得这么宽——
我曾爱你，宝贝，在很久以前——
我还看见所有我们可能走过的桥都在燃烧
但我觉得和我们失去的一切是如此地接近
就像我们不会再次失去它们
现在我向你告别，我不知道我什么时候会回来
回到明天会沿着轨道把我们带到那座塔的地方
但你会听到我的声音宝贝，在我走后很久很久
我会从歌塔中的一道窗
对你甜蜜地诉说
是的我的朋友都已离去我的头发变得灰白
在过去游戏的地方我感到痛苦
我为爱疯狂却不能继续
我只是每天在歌塔中
付着房租
科恩：我有诗人的头衔，也许，我也曾一度是诗人；我也有歌手的头衔，这倒很适合我，尽管我也不完全配得起这个称号。
（这个视频片段实际上摘自传记电影《莱昂纳德•科恩》）
Leonard Cohen
"Tower of Song"
Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey
I ache in the places where I used to play
And I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on
I'm just paying my rent every day
Oh in the Tower of Song
I said to Hank Williams: how lonely does it get?
Hank Williams hasn't answered yet
But I hear him coughing all night long
A hundred floors above me
In the Tower of Song
I was born like this, I had no choice
I was born with the gift of a golden voice
And twenty-seven angels from the Great Beyond
They tied me to this table right here
In the Tower of Song
So you can stick your little pins in that voodoo doll
I'm very sorry, baby, doesn't look like me at all
I'm standing by the window where the light is strong
Ah they don't let a woman kill you
Not in the Tower of Song
Now you can say that I've grown bitter but of this you may be sure
The rich have got their channels in the bedrooms of the poor
And there's a mighty judgement coming, but I may be wrong
You see, you hear these funny voices
In the Tower of Song
I see you standing on the other side
I don't know how the river got so wide
I loved you baby, way back when
And all the bridges are burning that we might have crossed
But I feel so close to everything that we lost
We'll never have to lose it again
Now I bid you farewell, I don't know when I'll be back
There moving us tomorrow to that tower down the track
But you'll be hearing from me baby, long after I'm gone
I'll be speaking to you sweetly
From a window in the Tower of Song
Yeah my friends are gone and my hair is grey
I ache in the places where I used to play
And I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on
I'm just paying my rent every day
Oh in the Tower of Song
©Leonard Cohen, trans. Liqiu Wang
