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安靜留下 (Unfazed translation)

by Paper Beat Scissors

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As a covid pastime I took some Mandarin lessons from my good friend Wanyu in Taiwan. She very kindly translated the Go On track "Unfazed" - paperbeatscissors.bandcamp.com/album/go-on into Mandarin for me (she's done some later versions of it, and at some point I'll record a newer version - promise, Wanyu!) The sense of the song is quite abstract, so it wasn't the easiest thing to translate, but I bet she did a beautiful job! I had a car accident in 2010 (or 2009??) and a lot of the first album, as well as this track, were really shaped by that. For me this song is about trying to process difficult events, and the kind of poisoned "peace" you can have when you simply pretend there's nothing you have to deal with (I think Tendrils perhaps touches on this, too)

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安靜留下

Zênmo kênéñ zôkāi
xíungxíung lìeh huô tūenshé wuô
Mêng gōng kēhùa líoxìa
wúfâ muômìeh dė shãn kuô

Bíeh shîng lái xìa yûü lė
Ãnjìng líoxìa

Gûguài zûzhòu kuài yìo
chêduèn kûnbâng dė shéngsûo
Shíeh può zhē xìa bù shūo
Zùei hò yíyíen dō duózô

Bíeh shîng láixìa yûü lė
Ãnjìng líoxìa
Nî chùeh shūo ‘bú shuèi lė
bìng bù kûng gùü’

Zhídào huô dō shímìeh
dên dài gūng kāi dė zhēng duó
Yîng xìang zhuân chéng shēng yīn
Shuéi shēn jí bài lė huô rè

Bíeh shîng lái xìa yûü lė
Bíeh wùng tàidūo
Yìzhíh shuèi jìuo fângfú
tùngkû búhuéi tsúnzài

How did we walk away? Consumed in fires of all sorts
The scratch that marked and stayed, a manifested onslaught

Don’t wake up when it rains
Silence should stay

Inside some awkward curse the strain will fray our taut rope
And silent where we’re cowed, they snatched away our last words

Don’t wake up when it rains
Don’t trail the sway
You won’t get back to sleep
You say you’re not fazed

Until the fire ran out we’d stay and fight in open
And switching sight for sound, the water closes over

Don’t wake up when it rains, silence should stay
Sleep through it all as though there’ll be no pain

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released June 24, 2023
Tim Crabtree - voice, piano, electric guitar, percussion, synth bass, mix
Pietro Amato - French Horn
Michael Belyea - drums
Gregory Burton - horn and string arrangements
Patrick Cruvellier - violin

Recorded by Diego Medina

Translation by Wanyu Lin (any clumsiness in pronunciation and meaning is due to me!)

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