Cabaret (CabaretSoundtrack Version)

What good is sitting alone in your room?
獨坐在房裡有什麼好處呢
Come hear the music play.
來聽音樂演奏吧
Life is a Cabaret, old chum,
人生就像歌廳老友
Come to the Cabaret.
快來歌廳吧
Put down the knitting,
放下手邊的編織
The book and the broom.
書本和掃帚
Time for a holiday.
該是度假的時候了
Life is Cabaret, old chum,
人生就像歌廳老友
Come to the Cabaret.
快來歌廳吧
Come taste the wine,
來品嚐美酒
Come hear the band.
來聽樂隊演奏
Come blow your horn,
來吹響你的號角
Start celebrating;
開始慶祝
Right this way,
請這邊走
Your table's waiting
你的桌子正等待著
No use permitting
別讓一些
soem prophet of doom
命運的先知
To wipe every smile away.
擦去你所有的微笑
Life is a Cabaret, old chum,
人生就像歌廳老友
Come to the Cabaret!
快來歌廳吧
I used to have a girlfriend
我曾經有個女性朋友
known as Elsie
叫做艾爾西
With whom I shared
我跟她在
Four sordid rooms in Chelsea
切爾西合租了四個骯髒的房間
She wasn't what you'd call
她不是那種大家稱之為
A blushing flower...
含羞花兒的人
As a matter of fact
事實上
She rented by the hour.
她按時計酬出租自己
The day she died the neighbors
她死得那天鄰居們
came to snicker:
都來竊笑
'Well, thats what comes
看吧那都是
from to much pills and liquor.'
過量的藥物和酒精的後果
But when I saw her laid out like a Queen
單當我看到她像個女王般躺在那裡
She was the happiest...corpse...
她是我所見過
I'd ever seen.
最快樂的屍體
I think of Elsie to this very day.
我直到今天都還想著艾爾西
I'd remember how'd she turn to me and say:
我記得她怎樣轉身對我說
'What good is sitting alone in your room?
獨坐在房間裡有什麼好處呢
Come hear the music play.
來聽音樂演奏吧
Life is a Cabaret, old chum,
人生就像歌廳老友
Come tothe Cabaret.'
快來歌廳吧
And as for me,
至於我呢
I made up my mind back in Chelsea,
我在切爾西時就下定決心
When I go, I'm going like Elsie.
當我死去時我要像艾爾西那樣
Start by admitting
首先就要承認
From cradle to tomb
從搖籃到墳墓
Isn't that long a stay.
逗留的時間並不長
Life is a Cabaret, old chum,
人生就像歌廳老友
Only a Cabaret, old chum,
人生就像歌廳老友
And I love a Cabaret!
而我喜愛歌廳