金曲｜The Lakes：湖泊
Folklore is a total goth-folk album of famous country singer and songwriter Taylor Swift, mostly acoustic guitar and piano, largely in collaboration with the National’s Aaron Dessner. It has 16 songs on the standard edition and was released on July 24th, 2020. “The Lakes” was the bonus track included in the physical deluxe edition. No pop songs in this album at all. It’s as far beyond Lover as Lover was beyond Reputation. She’s always relished her dramatic creative zigzags, but this is easily her most audacious move, full of story-telling depth she’s never come close to before. Some of us have spent years dreaming Taylor would do a whole album like this, but nobody really dreamed it would turn out this great. Her greatest album — so far.
Folklore really feels like the debut album of a whole new Swift — her narrative scope has opened up, with a wide-ranging cast of characters for 17 songs, without a dud. Yet you can still hear that this is the same songwriter who dropped “Last Kiss” on the world 10 years ago.
Taylor Swift left her comfort zones behind in the head-spinning and heartbreaking Folklore. Her eighth album is a radical detour into the deepest collection of songs she’s ever come up with.
泰勒•斯威夫特在纪录片《民间传说：长池录音室》（Folklore：The Long Pond Session）中谈到歌曲《湖泊》时说，这首歌表达的是，在英国湖区游览后，她坐在华兹华斯（Wordsworth）墓碑前，觉得这就是她所追寻的浪漫余生，带着灵感缪斯和心爱之人逃离世俗、隐居创作。但她接着谈到，这首歌表示的是一种宏大且真实的愿望。现在疫情肆虐，没办法去湖区或其他地方，但脑海中已带着心爱之人与守护之物逃离世俗。
在歌曲《湖泊》中，泰勒给出了她自己的理想参考——Wordsworth。Wordsworth是湖畔诗人（Lake Poets）领袖人物，主张所有好的诗歌都是“强烈情感的自然流露”（spontaneous overflow of powerful emotion），认为诗歌应该描写“平静中回忆起来的情感”（emotion recollected in tranquility）。
Is it romantic how all of my elegies eulogize me?
倘若我所作的哀歌都尽数用于称颂自己 这是否足够浪漫
I'm not cut out for all these cynical clones
我并不与那些带着同一副面孔的愤世嫉俗者们同流
These hunters with cell phones
也不属于那些用手机掌控者网络风向的舆论捕手们
Take me to the lakes, where all the poets went to die
请把我带去山脊下的湖畔吧 在那所有诗人甘愿走向覆灭之处
I don't belong and, my beloved, neither do you
可我不曾属于那里 而我亲爱的 那也同样不是你的归宿
Those Windermere peaks look like a perfect place to cry
温德米尔胡旁那些高耸的山峰似乎是绝佳的神伤落泪之地
I'm setting off, but not without my muse
我便动身出发 与我迸发的灵感火花同行
What should be over burrowed under my skin
在我的皮囊之下 又有何秘密值得世人不断探寻
In heart-stopping waves of hurt
心中的痛苦如翻滚浪涛般将我吞噬
I've come too far to watch some namedropping sleaze
我已经尽全力从那些损毁声誉的欺诈中逃出生天
Tell me what are my words worth
告诉我 我自证清白的辩解是否还有一丝价值
Take me to the lakes, where all the poets went to die
请把我带去山脊下的湖畔吧 在那所有诗人甘愿走向覆灭之处
I don't belong and, my beloved, neither do you
可我不曾属于那里 而我亲爱的 那也同样不是你的归宿
Those Windermere peaks look like a perfect place to cry
温德米尔胡旁那些高耸的山峰似乎是绝佳的神伤落泪之地
I'm setting off, but not without my muse
我便动身出发 与我迸发的灵感火花同行
I want auroras and sad prose
我憧憬着曙光再次降临 来与伤感的散文句落应和
I want to watch wisteria grow right over my bare feet
我盼望一睹紫藤的枝叶 蔓延缠绕我的赤足
'Cause I haven't moved in years
因为我已停驻于此蹉跎太多岁月
And I want you right here
多希望你能在这里陪我共度
A red rose grew up out of ice frozen ground
一直娇嫩的红玫瑰从冰封的大地中破土而出
With no one around to tweet it
因此无人在周围对它的生长议论纷纷
While I bathe in cliffside pools
当我沐浴在悬崖边的水池中时
With my calamitous love and insurmountable grief
我招致灾祸的爱意与无法抗拒的悲伤都一齐沉入水下
Take me to the lakes, where all the poets went to die
请把我带去山脊下的湖畔吧 在那所有诗人甘愿走向覆灭之处
I don't belong and, my beloved, neither do you
可我不曾属于那里 而我亲爱的 那也同样不是你的归宿
Those Windermere peaks look like a perfect place to cry
温德米尔胡旁那些高耸的山峰似乎是绝佳的神伤落泪之地
I'm setting off, but not without my muse
我便动身出发 与我迸发的灵感火花同行
No, not without you
没错 我无法与你分离
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