*They call me The Wild Rose

But my name was Elisa Day

Why they call me it I do not know

For my name was Elisa Day*

*他們叫我野玫瑰

但我的名字是艾萊莎·戴

我不知他們為何那樣叫我

但我的名字是艾萊莎·戴*

From the first day I saw her I knew she was the one Where the Wild Roses Grow

As she stared in my eyes and smiled

For her lips were the color of the roses

That grew down the river, all bloody and wild

自第一天見到她,我就知道她是我的命中人

當她盯著我的眼微笑

她的唇紅似

那盛開在河畔的血紅的野玫瑰

When he knocked on my door and entered the room

My trembling 1)subsided in his sure embrace

He would be my first man, and with a careful hand

He wiped at the tears that ran down my face

當他敲開我的門,走進房間

用堅定的擁抱使我不再戰栗

他將是我的第一個男人,他用手

小心擦去滑落我臉龐的淚

Repeat *重復 *

On the second day I brought her a flower

She was more beautiful than any woman I’d seen

I said, “Do you know where the wild roses grow

So sweet and 2)scarlet and free?”

第二天,我給她帶了一朵玫瑰

她比我曾見過的任何女人都美

我說:“你可知道何處的野玫瑰

開得如此鮮紅甜美而不受約束?”

On the second day he came with a single red rose

He said: “Give me your loss and your sorrow”

I nodded my head, as I lay on the bed

“If I show you the roses will you follow?”

第二天,他帶著一朵紅玫瑰前來

他說:“給我你的失落與傷悲”

我點頭,躺在床上

“如果我帶你去看那些玫瑰,你是否會跟隨?”

Repeat *重復 *

On the third day he took me to the river

He showed me the roses and we kissed

And the last thing I heard was a muttered word

As he knelt above me with a rock in his fist

第三天,他帶我去河邊

給我看那些玫瑰,然后我們親吻

而我最后聽到的是一句咕噥

當時他手握一個石塊,跪在我身上

On the last day I took her where the wild roses grow

She lay on the bank, the wind light as a thief

And I kissed her goodbye, I said, “All beauty must die”

And I lent down and planted a rose between her teeth

最后一天,我帶她去那些野玫瑰生長的地方

然后她躺在岸邊,風像賊似的“輕手輕腳”

當我和她吻別,我說:“一切美的歸宿是死亡”

然后我彎下身,在她的齒間插上一朵玫瑰

Repeat * 重復*

My name was Elisa Day

For my name was Elisa Day

我的名字是艾萊莎·戴

但我的名字是艾萊莎·戴

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