Zero The Hero (Late Capitalist Decay Remix)Alex S. Johnson

零号英雄(晚期资本主义衰变混音版)马永波 译

For John Shirley
致约翰·雪莉
Accept the fact that you're second-rate, life is easy for ya
It's all served up on a gold plated plate
And we don't even have to talk to you
Your face is normal, that's the way you're bred
And that's the way you're going to stay
Your head is firmly nailed to your TV channel
But someone else's finger's on the control panel-Black Sabbath, "Zero the Hero"
Songwriter(s): Terence Michael Butler, Tony Iommi, Ian Gillan, Bill Ward, Anthony Iommi, William T. Ward

认清自己是二流货色,生活会变得容易
金盘盛装的人生套餐已经备好
我们甚至无需与你交谈
你的面容平常,与生俱来
也将永远如此,与生同去
你的头颅被牢牢钉在你的电视频道上
但控制面板上是他人的手指——
黑色安息日乐队,《零号英雄》
词曲作者:特伦斯·迈克尔·巴特勒、托尼·艾欧米、伊恩·吉兰、
比尔·沃德、安东尼·艾欧米、威廉·T·沃德


Benumbed, a hipster in black
迟钝的黑衣潮人
with designer jeans and a lipstick smile
身着名牌牛仔,唇膏笑容
Caressing the silver screen with prurient fingers of junk
以毒瘾发作般的淫邪手指爱抚银幕
A psychopomp descends like crashing chords of the Death Jazz
勾魂使者降临如死亡爵士乐崩溃的和弦
With a scatter of black and iridescent feathers
散落黑羽与虹光翎毛
Towards the rapidly putrescent gentleman
向着急速腐败的绅士俯冲
Toppling foreword with a wig of blood
他以血的假发向前倾倒
He's borne aloft on cryptic rays from the tomb enveloping form
被来自坟墓的诡异射线高高托起
He's massacred by norms, a botfarm host
被常规屠戮,沦为机器人农场的主人
He's nearly a ghost, a spectral stutter on your TV
他近乎幽灵,在你的电视机里闪烁噪点
As you hold the remote in a lazy paw
而你握着遥控器的爪子松垮
Face grossed up with grease, jamming a fat sandwich in your hideous beak
油光满面的脸,可怕的嘴里塞着肥厚三明治
As you wait for the show to begin
等待节目开场
As pinpoint fires light up the sky
当针尖火焰点亮天际
As the teeming digital tide slams and shatters repeatedly
当汹涌数字浪潮反复冲击和破碎之时
Watching your own face in pixels as it
你注视自己像素化的面孔
Floods through the screen and you
漫过屏幕
Emit a gentleman's scream
发出绅士的尖叫
The fires persist on the hillside, it's
山坡上的火还在继续燃烧,此刻
Dark now and the foxes have gone to ground
夜幕降临,狐狸遁入地下
You light another cigarette and
你点燃又一支香烟
Reach for her absent hand
摸索她缺席的手
Realize too late what you've lost
为时已晚,明白你失去的东西
A thing of ones and zeros
不过是1与0的排列组合
Zero the Hero
零号英雄
Has left the living theater.
业已谢幕离场


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