When You Go Away
当你远去
When you go away the wind clicks around to the north
当你远去，风向北方呜咽
The painters work all day but at sundown the paint falls
油漆匠成日工作，而在日暮时分色调剥蚀
Showing the black walls
露出了黑色墙壁
The clock goes back to striking the same hour
时钟回返，敲击着一成不变的钟点
That has no place in the years
这些年毫无体面的位置
And at night wrapped in the bed of ashes
夜里隐匿于尘埃之床
In one breath I wake
在呼吸的一瞬我便惊醒
It is the time when the beards of the dead get their growth
是时候等待死者的胡须生长了
I remember that I am falling
我记得我在坠落
That I am the reason
而我正是那缘由
And that my words are the garment of what I shall never be
我的言辞是我永不会成为的外在
Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy
像那独臂男孩卷起的衣袖
click：vt. 点击；使发咔哒声 Beard：胡须
garment：n. 衣服，服装；外表，外观 tuck:vt. 卷起；挤进；用某物舒适地裹住；使有褶裥 vt. 给…穿衣服
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