Shape of my Heart (1993)
He deals the cards as a meditation/他小心翼翼地出牌
And those he plays never suspect/对手丝毫没有察觉
He doesn’t play for the money he wins/他并不是为了赢钱
He doesn’t play for the respect/也不是为了赢得对手的尊敬
He deals the cards to find the answer/他是为了寻找答案
The sacred geometry of chance/那神圣的几何概率
The hidden law of probable outcome/各种可能的结果中暗含的法则
The numbers lead a dance /数字在翩然起舞
I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier/我知道黑桃是士兵的利剑
I know that the clubs are weapons of war/我知道梅花是战争的武器
I know that diamonds mean money for this art/我明白方片在这游戏中意味着金钱
But that’s not the shape of my heart/但这不是我心的形状
He may play the jack of diamonds/他也许会出方片杰克
He may lay the queen of spades/他也许会出黑桃皇后
He may conceal a king in his hand/他可能在手中藏着一张老K
While the memory of it fades/而那些记忆一点点淡去
I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier我知道黑桃是士兵的利剑
I know that the clubs are weapons of war我知道梅花是战争的武器
I know that diamonds mean money for this art我明白方片在这游戏中意味着金钱
But that’s not the shape of my heart但这不是我心的形状
That’s not the shape, the shape of my heart这不是,不是我心的形状
And if I told you that I loved you/如果我告诉你我爱你
You’d maybe think there’s something wrong/你也许会认为是出了什么事
I’m not a man of too many faces/我不是一个有太多面孔的男人
The mask I wear is one/我的面具只有一个
Those who speak know nothing/妄言的人无知
And find out to their cost/他们为此付出了代价
Like those who curse their luck in too many places/正如那些无处不诅咒自己运气的人
And those who fear are lost/内心恐惧的人早已迷失
I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier/我知道黑桃是士兵的利剑
I know that the clubs are weapons of war/我知道梅花是战争的武器
I know that diamonds mean money for this art/我明白方片在这游戏中意味着金钱
But that’s not the shape of my heart/但这不是我心的形状
That’s not the shape, the shape of my heart/这不是,不是我心的形状
这首歌是电影《这个杀手不太冷》(Leon: The Professional)的主题曲。
Shape of my heart起源于占卜的纸牌本来就含着些命运的深意,被诗人般的歌手配成电影的片尾曲,天衣无缝——心,该是鲜红跳动的桃形,扑克牌中只有红桃像它,那是爱的象征。权力(黑桃)、金钱(方片)、武力(梅花)都非我心所愿。而只有真心,只有爱,是Leon一直所追求的。
歌曲就是Leon的内心独白。一个职业杀手,生活在自己的世界里。曾经有过刻骨铭心的爱,可在永远失去爱人后,开始了一个人的旅程。不知道他为什么选择杀手这条路。对于杀手,爱只是个包袱。他习惯独来独往,一个人去超市,一个人喝牛奶,一个人坐在椅子上,睁着一只眼睛睡觉,无牵无挂。可是,在他为马蒂尔达(Mathilda)开门的那一刻,一切都变了。
大都看完电影的人都会思考,Leon对马蒂尔达究竟是什么样的感情,可以说是父亲、朋友、情人……不过这些都不重要,不管是哪一种爱,都出自内心最深处。就像歌直到最后,也没有说出究竟什么才是心的形状。
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这是一首非常感人的歌,MV本身也是电影的剪短版,同样感人。
本来是想写Sting的简介,写到一半,在网上看见了这一篇对这首歌和这部电影的评论,觉得写的很棒,很透彻,就顺手搬了过来。包括上面对歌曲的翻译,我觉得都是一流的。(文章来源:http://www.mtyyw.com/yuansheng/shape-of-my-heart/)