[翻譯] Immortal Technique-Leaving the Past

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AoZy8K7qsw

They told me I would never make it, I would never achieve it
他們說我是個廢物，永遠不會達到高處

Reality is nourishment, but people don't believe it
我不想虛幻地活著，只好從慘不忍賭的現實中汲取成長的養份

I guess it's hard to stomach the truth like a bulimic
但人們聽到這些故事總是嘔吐，像個厭食症者

It's a dirty game and nobody is willing to clean it
他們視之而不見，不想了解這一切

But this is for the paraplegic, people dreamin' of runnin'
就像是截肢的人只能幻想轉瞬為風的感覺

Ladies married to men who don't please 'em, dreamin' of comin'
也像女人嫁給無法讓她高潮的丈夫時，將永遠無法體會愉悅

Verbally murderous like David Berkowitz when I'm gunnin'（註 1）
我是個連環殺手，用饒舌掃射那些人

Some cowards on the Internet didn't think I would sell
那些龜在螢幕後面總是冷言冷語的人

Scared to talk shit in person, 'cause they stuck in a shell
口口聲聲說我不會受到歡迎

And couldn't understand the pain of being stuck in a cell
反正我也不奢望他們能夠理解吃牢飯的痛苦

Hell is not a place you go, if you're not a Christian
如果你是個基督徒，你才需要考慮下地獄的可能性

It's the failure of your life's greatest ambition
當你的野心使你貪得無厭時，你已經身處地獄

It's a bad decision to blindly follow any religion
盲目信奉任何宗教都是個壞主意

I don't see the difference in between the wrong and the wrong
恐怖份子以及美國軍隊都做出了錯誤的選擇

Soldiers emptyin' their clips at little kids and their moms
射殺老弱婦孺的士兵以及身上綁著炸彈的極端分子

Are just like a desperate motherfucker strapped to a bomb
兩者並沒有任何分別

Humanity's gone, smoked up in a gravity bong
人性早已蕩然無存，共和黨和民主黨都在為富人奮鬥

By a democrat republican Cheech and Chong（註 2）
就像一對只想用大麻把自己搞 High 的喜劇組合

Immortal Technique, you never heard me preach in a song
我從來不用音樂傳教，我只說真正我想說的

I'm not controversial, I'm just speakin' the facts
我也不是個爭議人物，我只是說出沒人想聽的、冷血的事實

Put your hands in the air like you got the heat to your back
把手放在空中甩什麼都不用管，試著感覺有支槍正抵著你的背

And shake your body like a baby born addicted to crack
搖落！搖落！像個得了毒品戒斷症候群的嬰兒

And since life's a gamble like the craps tables at Vegas
生活是一場賭博，在輸與贏之間度過

I freestyle my destiny, it's not written in pages
命運啊請給我個節奏，讓我開始 freestyle

I hate it when they tell us how far we came to be
我恨他們所說，關於我們的歷史那套說詞

As if our people's history started with slavery
彷彿我們生來就是必須是奴隸

Painfully I discovered the shit they kept a secret
因為他們始終不讓我們知道真實的故事

This is the exodus like the black Jews out of Egypt（註 3）
我們必須逃出這裡，前往應許之地

I keep it reality based with the music I make
我的音樂奠基於真實

Blow up the truth in your face with the style I run with
用我的饒舌把血淋淋的事實甩到你的臉上

Like the Navy missile that shot down Flight 800（註 4）
就像海軍飛彈擊落環球 800 班機

I'm like the Africans who came here before Colombus
我是比哥倫布還要早發現新大陸的非洲人

And from the fifteen hundreds until after the morrow
從 15 世紀開始直到現在

I watch Latin America get raped in the sorrow
我眼睜睜看著拉丁美洲人被悲傷綁架

You see the Spaniards never left despues de Colon
自從哥倫布來了之後，殖民者從沒離開過

And if you don't believe me, you can click on Univision
如果你不相信我，你可以看看 Univision（註 5）

I never seen so much racism in all of my life
我從未看見如此活生生的種族主義

Every program and newscast, all of them white
所有節目上都是白人

It's like Apartheid with 10 percent ruling the rest
百分之 10 的白人統治其他人，這就是所謂的種族隔離

That type of stress 'll make me put the fucking tool to your chest
這股壓力讓我怒不可遏，想要把刀子插進你的胸膛裡

Step in my way nigga, I wouldn't wanna be ya
一起踏上我這條路吧兄弟，我並不想成為你的複製品

I burn slow like pissing drunk with gonorrhea
我痛苦地燃燒著，宛如淋病患者尿尿時生殖器感受到的痛楚

I'll do a free show in North Korea, burning the flag
我要在北韓辦一場免費的表演，在台上燒毀國旗

While J. Edgar Hoover politicians dress up in drag（註 6）
當政治人物們忙著隱藏真相

Try to confuse you, makin' it hard to follow this：
企圖混淆你真實與虛假，讓你愈來愈難理解：

Capitalism and democracy are not synonymous
資本主義和民主並非同義詞

You swallow propaganda like a birth control pill
你狼吞虎嚥那些政治的洗腦宣傳，如同吞下墮胎藥防止自由誕生

Sellin' your soul to the eye on the back of the dollar bill
順便把靈魂送給那些高高在上的人

But that will never be me, 'cause I'm leavin' the past
但是，我永遠不會這麼做，因為我正離開過去

Like an abused wife with the kids, leavin' your ass
像受虐婦女帶著孩子離開該死的渾蛋

Like a drug addict clean and sober, leavin' the stash
毒癮者終於決定離開毒窟

Unbreakable Technique leavin' the plane crash
堅不可摧的我正從星球起飛

I'm out with the black box and I refuse to return
帶著我的智慧離開，不再回來

I spit reality, instead of what you usually learn
我啐一口暗藏真實的痰在你的臉上，嘻哈的主題不只有金錢與性愛

And I refuse to be concerned with condescending advice
我一點也不在意那些自以為是的高人對我的指指點點

'Cause I'm the only motherfucker that could change my life
因為只有他媽的我自己能夠改變我的生活

Some people think I won't make it
有一些人覺得我永遠不會達到高處

But I know that I will
但我知道我可以

Escape the emptiness
如果你不這樣做的話，這片空無遲早會殺死你

'Cause that shit is slow and it kills
宛如溫水煮青蛙

The flow and the skill, I made y'all believe that it last
我的 flow 和技術永遠一流

You can make the future, But it starts with leaving the past
你可以和我一起創造未來，但首先，你必須向過去道別

註 1：David Berkowitz，人稱 Son of sam，美國的連續殺人犯。民謠歌手

Elliott Smith 也有一首歌叫做 Son of sam。

註 2：Cheech and Chong，美國知名喜劇雙人組。

註 3：引用出埃及記的典故。

註 4：Flight 800，1996 年發生的環球航空 800 號班機空難，該班機起飛後 12 分鐘即爆炸解體，機上無人生還，有一說認為飛機是被飛彈誤擊所以墜毀。

註 5：Univision，美國規模最大的西班牙語電視台。

註 6：J. Edgar Hoover，美國聯邦調查局首任局長，利用職權騷擾異議者以及政治活動份子，並透過利用非法手段蒐集證據。

Immortal Technique是最喜歡的饒舌歌手之一，

除了音樂好聽之外，歌詞裡的知識深度更是讓人驚嘆

歡迎各路強者指證翻譯

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