Werther

她屬於我,我曾感受那顆心,那個偉大的靈魂。在她面前我似乎比實際上更有本領,因為我曾顯出自己的一切面目。上帝阿!我靈魂中可有一種力量未曾試用?我在她面前不是能發揮一切奇妙的理解力,全心擁抱自然嗎?我們的來往不是最微妙的感情、最敏銳的智慧交織而成的嗎?它的變化都印上最誇張的天才印信?

But she has been mine. I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be. Good heavens! did then a single power of my soul remain unexercised? In her presence could I not display, to its full extent, that mysterious feeling with which my heart embraces nature? Was not our intercourse a perpetual web of the finest emotions, of the keenest wit, the varieties of which, even in their very eccentricity, bore the stamp of genius?

再度發覺世上的許多紛擾都起於誤會和惰性,不見得是狡猾或惡意造成的。總之後面兩者要少見多了。

And I have again observed, my dear friend, in this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent occurrence.

Mistake

Indoor Fireworks



(by Elvis Costello)
We play these parlour games
We play at make believe
When we get to the part where I say that I'm going to leave
Everybody loves a happy ending but we don't even try
We go straight past pretending
To the part where everybody loves to cry

(chorus)
Indoor fireworks
Can still burn your fingers
Indoor fireworks
We swore we were safe as houses
They're not so spectacular
They don't burn up in the sky
But they can dazzle or delight
Or bring a tear
When the smoke gets in your eyes

You were the spice of life
The gin in my vermouth
And though the sparks would fly
I thought our love was fireproof
Sometimes we'd fight in public darling
With very little cause
But different kinds of sparks would fly
When we got on our own behind closed doors

(chorus)
It's time to tell the truth
These things have to be faced
My fuse is burning out
And all that powder's gone to waste
Don't think for a moment dear that we'll ever be through
I'll build a bonfire of my dreams
And burn a broken effigy of me and you

(chorus)

這首歌真的很好聽。我很喜歡副歌。
艾維斯唱歌的唱腔很多樣,但這首很剛適合他的溫柔嗓音。

Jealous Guy



I was dreaming of the past
And my heart was beating fast
I began to lose control, I began to lose control

I didn't mean to hurt you
I'm sorry that I made you cry
Oh no, I didn't mean to hurt you
I'm just a jealous guy

I was feeling insecure
You might not love me anymore
I was shivering inside, I was shivering inside

I was trying to catch your eyes
Though that you was trying to hide
I was swallowing my pain,
I was swallowing my pain