Song | Sharply Unclear |
Artist | Peter Hammill |
Album | Roaring Forties |
作词 : Hammill | |
You've never shown a trace of human frailty, | |
no-one could ever catch you on the hop: | |
Each post-modern take on the action | |
would find you already, in principle, totally hot, | |
all self-referential commentary | |
and a marketing man's sense of talk shop. | |
The sharper the image you cut | |
the more you seem unreal; | |
so sharp you could cut yourself, | |
transparently ideal. | |
Yeah, we all know that hard-boiled look, | |
you cooked it up to face down the stares; | |
I feel like I'm walking on eggshells around you, | |
as though you're already no longer quite there. | |
You acknowledge your trauma, | |
your neurosis is stripped and laid bare. | |
The sharper the image you cut the more you disappear; | |
so sharp you could cut yourself, | |
somehow this transparency's unclear. | |
All the mirrors in your playroom, | |
they twist your psycho-epidermis into shape. | |
No doubt you emerged in your make-up believing | |
quite simply, believing that you'd got it taped | |
but the vacancy you offered | |
is already a Cheshire Cat gape. | |
The sharper the image you cut the more you disappeared; | |
so sharp you could cut yourself – are you still really here? | |
And the sharper the image you cut the more you seemed a fake, | |
so sharp you could cut yourself, transparently opaque... | |
And the sharper the image you cut the less you seemed alive; | |
so sharp, but this open book's transparently jive. | |
You were so sharp you cut yourself, | |
so sharp you could cut yourself; | |
you were so sharp you made yourself transparent | |
and transparently unclear. |
zuò cí : Hammill | |
You' ve never shown a trace of human frailty, | |
noone could ever catch you on the hop: | |
Each postmodern take on the action | |
would find you already, in principle, totally hot, | |
all selfreferential commentary | |
and a marketing man' s sense of talk shop. | |
The sharper the image you cut | |
the more you seem unreal | |
so sharp you could cut yourself, | |
transparently ideal. | |
Yeah, we all know that hardboiled look, | |
you cooked it up to face down the stares | |
I feel like I' m walking on eggshells around you, | |
as though you' re already no longer quite there. | |
You acknowledge your trauma, | |
your neurosis is stripped and laid bare. | |
The sharper the image you cut the more you disappear | |
so sharp you could cut yourself, | |
somehow this transparency' s unclear. | |
All the mirrors in your playroom, | |
they twist your psychoepidermis into shape. | |
No doubt you emerged in your makeup believing | |
quite simply, believing that you' d got it taped | |
but the vacancy you offered | |
is already a Cheshire Cat gape. | |
The sharper the image you cut the more you disappeared | |
so sharp you could cut yourself are you still really here? | |
And the sharper the image you cut the more you seemed a fake, | |
so sharp you could cut yourself, transparently opaque... | |
And the sharper the image you cut the less you seemed alive | |
so sharp, but this open book' s transparently jive. | |
You were so sharp you cut yourself, | |
so sharp you could cut yourself | |
you were so sharp you made yourself transparent | |
and transparently unclear. |