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LITTLE BLACK BOOK WB YEATS
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[INTRO — FEMALE]
Female:
What does a poet give
when he owns almost nothing?
Male:
Not gold.
Not kingdoms.
Not heaven.
Only dreams.
[VERSE 1 — THE YOUNG POET]
Male:
I grew where western waters
met the Irish rain.
Old legends crossed the hills.
Fairies walked through twilight.
Cuchulain rode through memory.
Aengus wandered after love.
Female:
And you?
Male:
I followed beauty.
Female:
Did you find her?
Male:
I found a woman.
And lost her
again and again.
Female:
So you wrote?
Male:
What else could I do?
[VERSE 2 — CLOTHS OF HEAVEN]
Male:
If I possessed heaven,
I would bring its light.
Gold beneath the morning.
Silver through the night.
Blue for all our longing.
Grey for passing years.
Darkness for the silence
love refuses to explain.
Female:
But you had no heaven.
Male:
No.
Female:
No golden cloth?
Male:
No.
Female:
Then what could you give?
Male:
My dreams.
Female:
你的梦？
Male:
Everything I had.
[CHORUS]
Male:
Tread softly.
Female:
Tread softly.
Male:
Time is beneath your feet.
Female:
Love is beneath your feet.
Male:
We have only dreams.
Female:
我们只有梦。
Both:
Tread softly.
Tread softly.
For you tread
on the dreams of my heart.
[VERSE 3 — WHEN YOU ARE OLD]
Female:
Years passed.
Male:
They always do.
Female:
Beauty changed.
Male:
Beauty always does.
Female:
And love?
Male:
That was the question.
When you are old,
sit beside the fire.
Take down this book.
Read slowly.
Remember your young eyes.
Remember their shadows.
Female:
Many loved my beauty.
Male:
Yes.
Female:
Many loved my youth.
Male:
Yes.
Female:
And you?
Male:
I loved something
time could not keep young.
Female:
What did you love?
Male:
The pilgrim soul
inside you.
[CHORUS]
Male:
Tread softly.
Female:
Tread softly.
Male:
Time is beneath your feet.
Female:
Love is beneath your feet.
Male:
We have only dreams.
Female:
我们只有梦。
Both:
Tread softly.
Tread softly.
For you tread
on the dreams of my heart.
[BRIDGE — TIME]
Female:
The wild swans remained.
Male:
But I grew older.
Female:
Ireland changed.
Male:
And I changed with her.
Female:
Rebellion came.
Male:
A terrible beauty was born.
Female:
The centre trembled.
Male:
The old world turned.
Female:
But these were not
your final questions.
Male:
No.
Female:
What remained?
Male:
Love.
Age.
The soul.
And what survives us.
[VERSE 4 — SAILING TO BYZANTIUM]
Male:
This is no country
for old men.
The young embrace.
The birds still sing.
Fish fill the water.
Summer praises life.
Everything is born.
Everything must die.
Female:
And you are growing old.
Male:
This body knows it.
Female:
Are you afraid?
Male:
Of dying?
Perhaps.
Of disappearing?
More.
Female:
Then where will you go?
Male:
Byzantium.
Female:
Why Byzantium?
Male:
Because flesh must vanish.
But art may remain.
Female:
肉体会老去。
Male:
The song need not.
Female:
爱情会消逝。
Male:
The poem may remember.
[FINAL CHORUS]
Male:
Tread softly.
Female:
Tread softly.
Male:
Beauty is beneath your feet.
Female:
Memory is beneath your feet.
Male:
We have only dreams.
Female:
我们终会老去。
Male:
But something may remain.
Female:
一首诗。
Male:
A song.
Female:
一个梦。
Both:
Tread softly.
Tread softly.
We are passing.
The song remains.
[CODA — BYZANTIUM]
Female:
Young poet—
what did you want?
Male:
Love.
Female:
Old poet—
what do you want now?
Male:
To become
what time cannot destroy.
Female:
And what is that?
Male:
A song
beyond the body.
[FINAL SPOKEN QUOTATION]
[Music nearly disappears]
Male, spoken slowly:
But I, being poor,
have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams
under your feet;
Tread softly
because you tread
on my dreams.