Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word - Joan Baez (琼·贝兹)

Written by：Bob Dylan

Seems like only yesterday

一切恍如昨日

I left my mind behind

我思绪恍惚

Down in the gypsy cafe

在一家吉普赛咖啡馆

With a friend of a friend of mine

一位朋友的朋友向我倾诉

She sat with a baby heavy on her knee

她将孩子沉于膝上

Yet spoke of life most free from slavery

却谈到了最自由的生活

With eyes that showed no trace of misery

眼神中不见一丝怨尤

A phrase in connection first with she I heard

说起自己 她提及的第一句话是

That love is just a four letter word

爱情不过是两个字而已

Outside a rambling store front window

漫步大街上 商店的橱窗前

Cats meowed to the break of day

小猫喵喵叫着 迎接黎明

Me I kept my mouth shut

而我却噤若寒蝉

To you I had no words to say

面对你 失去了一切辞藻

My experience was limited and underfed

我的过去乏味而有限

You were talking while I hid

当你与曾是你孩子父亲的男人聊天

To the one who was the father of your kid

我躲开回避

You probably didn't think I did but I heard

也许你以为我没听见 但我听见你说

You say that love is just a four letter word

你说爱情不过是两个字而已

I wanna on my way I know this

我想在我自己的游戏中

Pushed towards things in my own games

拿定玩好自己游戏的主意

Drifting in and out of lifetimes

在人海穿梭漂泊

Unmentionable by name

却无人提及我姓名

Searching for my double looking for

寻找世间另一个我

Complete evaporation to the core

却消失得无影无踪

Though I tried and failed at finding any door

尽管我试过也仍未觅到自己的去向

I must have thought that there was nothing more

我却始终相信 没什么比这更加荒唐

Absurd than that love is just a four letter word

爱情不过是两个字而已

Strange it is to be beside you many years the tables turned

奇怪的是 我们再次谋面 许多年后 时过境迁

You'd probably not believe me if told you all I've learned

如果我告诉你我的经验 也许你不会相信我

And it is very very weird indeed

听到永恒这个词

To hear words like forever plead

感觉确实无比怪异

So ships run through my mind I cannot cheat

我的思绪纷乱 我撒不了谎

It's like looking in a teacher's face complete

在你面前 我就像个懵懂的学生

I can say nothing to you but repeat what I heard

我没有什么可说 只能对你重复我听到的话

That love is just a four letter word

爱情不过是两个字而已