Joan Baez: Diamonds and Rust 瓊•拜茲：鑽石和鐵鏽

鑽  石  和  鐵  銹

Well , I'll be damned / 啊，我的老天！

Here comes your ghost again / 你的魅影再出現

But that's not unusual / 但這並非不尋常

It's just that the moon is full / 只因今晚月又圓

And you happened to call / 你恰巧撥電話來

And here I sit / 我就坐在這兒呀

Hand on the telephone / 手裡拿著聽筒說

Hearing a voice I'd known / 聽著幾個光年前

A couple of light years ago / 就曾熟識的聲音

Heading straight for a fall / 準備再次受情傷

As I remember your eyes / 依稀記得你雙眼

Were bluer than robin's eggs / 比知更鳥蛋還藍

My poetry was lousy, you said / 你說我的詩太糟

Where were you calling from? / 你從那裡來電話？

A booth in the Midwest / 中西部某電話間

Well, you burst on the scene were already a legend /  鋒芒舞台成傳奇

The unwatched phenomenon /  奇才誰能不留意

The original vagabond /  生就有流浪偏愛

You strayed into my arms /  也曾漂入我心懷

And there you stayed /  而你只能停少許

Temporarily lost at sea /  如海船迷航稍息

The Madonna was yours for free /  你受聖母之眷顧

Yes, the girl on the half shell /  此女為你貝殼張

Could keep you unharmed /  佑護你免受損傷

Now I see you standing /  如今看到你佇立

With brown leaves falling all around /  身在黃葉紛飛里

And snow in your hair /  頭髮上粘著雪花

Now you're smiling out the window of that crummy hotel /  旅館窗前你微笑

Over Washington Square /  華盛頓廣場遠眺

Our breath comes out white cloud /  你我氣息曾飛翻

Mingles and hangs in the air /  凝結成雲霧漫卷

Speaking strictly for me /  我看氣氛很凝重

We both could've died then and there /  彷彿死亡逼眼前

Now you're telling me you're not nostalgic /  如今你說不懷舊

Then give me another word for it /  那你也得換個詞

You who're so good with words /  你從來擅長嚼字

And at keeping thing vague/  使之難懂且曖昧

Cause I need some of that vagueness now /  眼下曖昧正好需

It's all come back too clearly /  往事一切太清晰

Yes , I love you dearly /  我仍深深愛著你

And if you're offering me diamonds and rust /  再許鑽石和鐵鏽

I've already paid /  我付代價本昂貴

Ten years ago I bought you some cufflinks /  十年前袖扣送你

You brought me something /  你亦回贈我些許

We both know /  我們心裡都明晰

what memories can bring /  回憶能有啥結局

They bring diamond and rust /  重複鑽石和鐵鏽

中文歌詞修改整理：Felix Wang