All This Useless Beauty-Elvis Costello

[ti:All This Useless Beauty] [ar:Elvis Costello] [al:All This Useless Beauty] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]All This Useless Beauty - Elvis Costello (埃尔维斯 科斯特洛) [00:10.43]It's at times such as this she'd be tempted to spit
每次这样她都忍不住吐口水 [00:15.23] [00:16.05]If she wasn't so ladylike
如果她不那么淑女 [00:19.10] [00:21.35]She imagines how she might have lived
她想象她该怎样生活 [00:25.34]Back when legends and history collide
当传说与历史碰撞 [00:29.08] [00:31.95]So she looks to her prince finding he's so charmingly
她指望她的王子发现她如此迷人 [00:36.64] [00:37.69]Slumped at her side
倒在她的身旁 [00:39.63] [00:42.95]Those days are recalled on the gallery wall
那些日子只能在画廊的墙壁上回想起 [00:47.06] [00:47.80]And she's waiting for passion or humour to strike
她等待激情和幽默的冲击 [00:53.12] [00:56.48]What shall we do what shall we do with all this useless beauty
如何是好 我们该如何对待这全然无益的美丽 [01:05.71] [01:07.71]All this useless beauty
全然无益的美丽 [01:12.39] [01:21.84]Good Friday arrived the sky darkened on time
耶稣受难日来临时 天空昏暗 [01:26.14] [01:26.84]'Til he almost began to negotiate
直到他将要谈判之时 [01:30.76] [01:32.39]She held his head like a baby and said "It's okay if you cry"
她像孩子一样捧起他的头 说你可以哭泣 [01:40.63] [01:42.81]Now he wants her to dress as if you couldn't guess
现在他想让她穿得神秘莫测 [01:46.99] [01:47.74]He desires to impress his associates
他想要给他的同伴留下印象 [01:51.48] [01:53.04]But he's part ugly beast and Hellenic deceased
但他是丑陋野兽和已故希腊人的一部分 [01:57.47] [01:58.10]So she finds that the mixture is hard to deny
所以她发现这样的混合体很难被否认 [02:03.09] [02:06.64]What shall we do what shall we do with all this useless beauty
如何是好 我们该如何对待这全然无益的美丽 [02:15.44] [02:17.75]All this useless beauty
全然无益的美丽 [02:21.12] [02:26.05]She won't practice the looks from the great tragic books
她不会从伟大的悲剧书中练习演技 [02:31.11]That were later disgraced to face celluloid
之后面对电影她会丢尽颜面 [02:35.48] [02:36.54]It won't even make sense but you can bet
那没什么意义 但可以打赌 [02:41.84]If she isn't a sweetheart or plaything or pet
如果她不是情人 玩具或宠物 [02:46.83]The film turns her into an unveiled threat
电影会让她陷入暴露无遗的威胁之中 [02:53.94] [02:55.81]Nonsense prevails modesty fails
流言蜚语肆起 形象破坏 [02:59.26] [02:59.94]Grace and virtue turn into stupidity
优雅和美德转眼变成愚昧无知 [03:03.93]While the calendar fades almost all barricades to a pale compromise
当日历泛黄褪色 所有的争论都变成无力的妥协 [03:12.61] [03:15.66]And our leaders have feasts on the backsides of beasts
我们的领袖供奉野兽 [03:20.41]They still think they're the gods of antiquity
他们仍然认为它们是古老的神 [03:23.77] [03:25.64]If something you missed didn't even exist
如果你想念的东西根本不存在 [03:30.08]It was just an ideal -- is it such a surprise
那就仅仅是个理想 这很惊讶吗 [03:35.88] [03:37.44]What shall we do what shall we do with all this useless beauty
如何是好 我们该如何对待这全然无益的美丽 [03:47.42] [03:49.23]All this useless beauty
全然无益的美丽 [03:52.60] [03:58.16]What shall we do what shall we do with all this useless beauty
如何是好 我们该如何对待这全然无益的美丽 [04:06.27] [04:08.39]All this useless beauty
全然无益的美丽