Quiet

Song Quiet
Artist Tim Minchin
Album Matilda The Musical (Original London Cast 2011)

Lyrics

[00:12.69] Have you ever wondered,
[00:14.54] well, I have, about how when I say,
[00:16.22] say "red", for example,
[00:17.81] there's no way of knowing
[00:19.48] if "red" means the same thing in your head,
[00:21.84] as "red" means in my head,
[00:23.09] when someone says "red".
[00:24.51] And how if we are traveling at almost the speed of light,
[00:27.77] and were holding a light,
[00:29.41] that light would still travel away from us
[00:32.09] at the full speed of light?
[00:34.04] Which seems right in a way,
[00:35.41] but I'm trying to say, I'm not sure,
[00:37.80] but I wonder if inside myhead
[00:39.64] I'm not just a bit different from some of my friends.
[00:42.62] These answers that come into my mind unbidden,
[00:45.90] these stories delivered to me fully written.
[00:48.54] And when everyone shouts
[00:50.04] like they seem to like shouting,
[00:51.54] the noise in my head is incredibly loud.
[00:54.48] Well, I just wish they'd stop,
[00:55.79] my dad and my mum.
[00:57.14] And the telly and stories
[00:59.07] would stop for just once.
[01:00.28] I'm sorry, I'm not quite explaining it right,
[01:02.98] but this noise becomes anger,
[01:04.90] and the anger is light.
[01:06.22] And this burning inside me
[01:07.77] would usually fade,
[01:09.60] but isn't today.
[01:10.85] And the heat and the shouting,
[01:12.38] and my heart is pounding,
[01:13.57] and my eyes are burning,
[01:15.52] and suddenly everything,
[01:17.58] everything is quiet.
[01:30.39] Like silence, but not really silent,
[01:42.39] just that still sort of quiet,
[01:48.08] like the sound of a page being turned in a book,
[01:54.77] or a pause in a walk in the woods.
[02:02.72] Quiet,
[02:11.29] like silence, but not really silent,
[02:22.97] just that nice kind of quiet,
[02:29.32] like the sound when you lie upside down in your bed,
[02:36.18] just the sound of your heart in your head.
[02:42.81] And though the people around me,
[02:47.74] their mouths are still moving,
[02:51.91] the words they are forming
[02:57.43] cannot reach me anymore.
[03:05.65] And it is quiet,
[03:10.95] and I am warm,
[03:17.36] like I've sailed
[03:27.98] into the eye of the storm.
[03:35.62] （Eye of the Storm:a region of calmer weather found at the center of strong tropical cyclones. *Wikipedia）

Pinyin

[00:12.69] Have you ever wondered,
[00:14.54] well, I have, about how when I say,
[00:16.22] say " red", for example,
[00:17.81] there' s no way of knowing
[00:19.48] if " red" means the same thing in your head,
[00:21.84] as " red" means in my head,
[00:23.09] when someone says " red".
[00:24.51] And how if we are traveling at almost the speed of light,
[00:27.77] and were holding a light,
[00:29.41] that light would still travel away from us
[00:32.09] at the full speed of light?
[00:34.04] Which seems right in a way,
[00:35.41] but I' m trying to say, I' m not sure,
[00:37.80] but I wonder if inside myhead
[00:39.64] I' m not just a bit different from some of my friends.
[00:42.62] These answers that come into my mind unbidden,
[00:45.90] these stories delivered to me fully written.
[00:48.54] And when everyone shouts
[00:50.04] like they seem to like shouting,
[00:51.54] the noise in my head is incredibly loud.
[00:54.48] Well, I just wish they' d stop,
[00:55.79] my dad and my mum.
[00:57.14] And the telly and stories
[00:59.07] would stop for just once.
[01:00.28] I' m sorry, I' m not quite explaining it right,
[01:02.98] but this noise becomes anger,
[01:04.90] and the anger is light.
[01:06.22] And this burning inside me
[01:07.77] would usually fade,
[01:09.60] but isn' t today.
[01:10.85] And the heat and the shouting,
[01:12.38] and my heart is pounding,
[01:13.57] and my eyes are burning,
[01:15.52] and suddenly everything,
[01:17.58] everything is quiet.
[01:30.39] Like silence, but not really silent,
[01:42.39] just that still sort of quiet,
[01:48.08] like the sound of a page being turned in a book,
[01:54.77] or a pause in a walk in the woods.
[02:02.72] Quiet,
[02:11.29] like silence, but not really silent,
[02:22.97] just that nice kind of quiet,
[02:29.32] like the sound when you lie upside down in your bed,
[02:36.18] just the sound of your heart in your head.
[02:42.81] And though the people around me,
[02:47.74] their mouths are still moving,
[02:51.91] the words they are forming
[02:57.43] cannot reach me anymore.
[03:05.65] And it is quiet,
[03:10.95] and I am warm,
[03:17.36] like I' ve sailed
[03:27.98] into the eye of the storm.
[03:35.62] Eye of the Storm: a region of calmer weather found at the center of strong tropical cyclones. Wikipedia