Desolation Row 荒凉街

Desolation Row

荒凉街

They’re selling postcards of the hanging

他们在卖吊死人的明信片

They’re painting the passports brown

他们在把护照涂成褐色

The beauty parlor is filled with sailors

美容院满是水手

The circus is in town

城里头演着马戏

Here comes the blind commissioner

走来瞎眼的执政官

They’ve got him in a trance

他们看到他醉醺醺

One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker

一手绑着走钢丝的人

The other is in his pants

一手插在裤子里

And the riot squad they’re restless

防暴队员坐立不安

They need somewhere to go

他们得到哪里走走

As Lady and I look out tonight

这就是今晚夫人和我向外看到的

From Desolation Row

从荒凉街

Cinderella, she seems so easy

灰姑娘，她看起来很悠闲

“It takes one to know one,” she smiles

笑着说，“彼此彼此”

And puts her hands in her back pockets

然后把两手插进后裤子兜

Bette Davis style

明星贝蒂·戴维斯范儿

And in comes Romeo, he’s moaning

罗密欧走进来，哀求说

“You Belong to Me I Believe”

“我觉着你属于我”

And someone says, “You’re in the wrong place my friend

有人说，“朋友你来错了地儿

You better leave”

你最好离开”

And the only sound that’s left

最后剩下的

After the ambulances go

在救护车走开后

Is Cinderella sweeping up

是灰姑娘扫地的声音响在

On Desolation Row

荒凉街上

Now the moon is almost hidden

月亮几乎躲起来

The stars are beginning to hide

星星也渐渐稀少

The fortune-telling lady

算命的妇人

Has even taken all her things inside

已收起了所有道具

All except for Cain and Abel

除了该隐和亚伯

And the hunchback of Notre Dame

和圣母院的驼背人

Everybody is making love

人人都在做爱

Or else expecting rain

或是期盼下雨

And the Good Samaritan, he’s dressing

好心的撒玛利亚人，他在装扮

He’s getting ready for the show

他在为演出做准备

He’s going to the carnival tonight

今晚他要去嘉年华

On Desolation Row

在荒凉街上

Now Ophelia, she’s ’neath the window

奥菲丽亚，她在窗下

For her I feel so afraid

我对她很是害怕

On her twenty-second birthday

在她二十二岁生日

She already is an old maid

她已然成为老处女

To her, death is quite romantic

对她，死亡很是浪漫

She wears an iron vest

她穿了一个铁制的胸衣

Her profession’s her religion

她的职业就是她的信仰

Her sin is her lifelessness

她的罪就是她了无生趣

And though her eyes are fixed upon

尽管她的双眼凝视在

Noah’s great rainbow

诺亚的那道大彩虹上

She spends her time peeking

她把时间花在窥视着

Into Desolation Row

荒凉街里面

Einstein, disguised as Robin Hood

爱因斯坦，装扮成罗宾汉

With his memories in a trunk

把记忆放在车厢

Passed this way an hour ago

一小时以前经过这里

With his friend, a jealous monk

同他的朋友，一个嫉妒的僧侣

He looked so immaculately frightful

他看起来很不愉快

As he bummed a cigarette

当他讨要一支烟的时候

Then he went off sniffing drainpipes

然后他走开去闻排水管

And reciting the alphabet

又背诵字母表

Now you would not think to look at him

现在你不会想到去看他

But he was famous long ago

但是他有名好久了

For playing the electric violin

因为拉电子小提琴

On Desolation Row

在荒凉街上

Dr. Filth, he keeps his world

肮脏医师，他把他的世界保存

Inside of a leather cup

在一只皮制的杯子里

But all his sexless patients

但是他所有的无性病人

They’re trying to blow it up

都试着吹起皮杯

Now his nurse, some local loser

现在她的护士，一个本地的失败者

She’s in charge of the cyanide hole

管着杯子的氢化物孔

And she also keeps the cards that read

她保管的卡片上写到

“Have Mercy on His Soul”

“宽恕他的灵魂”

They all play on pennywhistles

他们都在吹小笛子

You can hear them blow

你能听见他们吹奏

If you lean your head out far enough

如果你把头伸出去够远

From Desolation Row

从荒凉街里

Across the street they’ve nailed the curtains

街对面，他们已经钉好窗帘

They’re getting ready for the feast

他们已准备好盛宴

The Phantom of the Opera

歌剧院的魅影

A perfect image of a priest

祭司的完美图像

They’re spoonfeeding Casanova

他们一勺勺喂着卡莎诺瓦

To get him to feel more assured

让他感觉更加自信

Then they’ll kill him with self-confidence

然后他们用自信杀了他

After poisoning him with words

在用词语毒害他之后

And the Phantom’s shouting to skinny girls

魅影对干瘦的女孩儿喊

“Get Outa Here If You Don’t Know

“你要是不清楚，就滚出去

Casanova is just being punished for going

卡莎诺瓦正被惩罚，因为他去了

To Desolation Row”

荒凉街”

Now at midnight all the agents

到了午夜，所有暗探

And the superhuman crew

和超人队伍

Come out and round up everyone

走出来围住

That knows more than they do

知道的比他们多的人们

Then they bring them to the factory

把他们带到工厂

Where the heart-attack machine

那里电击心脏的机器

Is strapped across their shoulders

绑在了他们肩膀上

And then the kerosene

然后把煤油

Is brought down from the castles

从城堡上运下来

By insurance men who go

由保险人员负责

Check to see that nobody is escaping

检查是不是有人逃脱

To Desolation Row

到了荒凉街上

Praise be to Nero’s Neptune

荣耀归于尼禄的海神

The Titanic sails at dawn

黎明时泰坦尼克启航

And everybody’s shouting

每个人都在喊

“Which Side Are You On?”

“你站哪一边？”

And Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot

埃兹拉庞德和T.S.艾略特

Fighting in the captain’s tower

在指挥塔里争斗

While calypso singers laugh at them

海中女神Singer嘲笑他们

And fishermen hold flowers

渔民手持花朵

Between the windows of the sea

在海中窗户间

Where lovely mermaids flow

可爱的美人鱼漂浮

And nobody has to think too much

没人会想太多

About Desolation Row

关于荒凉街

Yes, I received your letter yesterday

是啊，我昨天接到了你的信

(About the time the doorknob broke)

（大概在门把手断裂时）

When you asked how I was doing

信里你问我是怎么做的

Was that some kind of joke?

这是不是在开玩笑？

All these people that you mention

你提到的所有的这些人

Yes, I know them, they’re quite lame

我是知道他们的，他们差劲之极

I had to rearrange their faces

我得重新排排他们的面孔

And give them all another name

再给他们通通换个名字

Right now I can’t read too good

现在我的阅读不是太好

Don’t send me no more letters, no

别给我寄再多的信了，别

Not unless you mail them

除非你寄的信是

From Desolation Row

从荒凉街