2022年11月28日 星期一

Job's Coffin: Death, Sky, and Disempowerment


Job's coffin looks down
Job's coffin looks down
To see what mankind
Is gonna do
There is a grid
Of
Disempowerment
All forces
Are being called
To dismantle this
As Job's coffin looks down
Job's coffin looks down
To see
What you're gonna do
There exists
A power of old
Who wanted earth
To be controlled
But She
And She alone
Is her own
She is her own
Job's coffin looks down
Job's coffin looks down
I can't be proud,
Proud of what I have done
Since time
Why do we women
Give ourselves away?
We give ourselves away
Thinking somehow
That will make him
Want to stay
Make him stay
Job's coffin looks down
At the day you
Shut your power down
You must uncreate
That
Destructive tendency
Let your fire
Start to
Heal the fury
Sister its time
To bring it
Back online
As Job's coffin looks down
Job's coffin looks down
To see what you're gonna do
To see what you're gonna do

作為一首很少華人譯者願意公開發表譯作的歌詞,主因有三:一,主題是棺木與死亡。二,曲名真正意義是指稱海豚座的主星,涉及星相學。三,歌詞文青又艱澀,廣談生死、兩性關係、瞋心怒火與神性天火、權力顛覆與霸權解構。

然而,海豚座本身談的並不是兩性鬥爭,相反的,它的神話起源是海神的婚姻。維基百科簡述了海神曲折的求婚故事:「海神波塞冬欲娶海仙女安菲特裡忒為妻,然而,為保貞潔,安菲特裡忒逃至阿特拉斯山脈。於是,波塞冬便派人尋找她的下落,其中一隻海豚偶然發現安菲特裡忒,並打動她接受波塞冬的求婚。為答謝海豚的功勞,海豚就成了天上的海豚座。」為什麼一個男海神要追一個女海神還這麼辛苦無力,必須靠「一隻魚」當媒婆呢?依我們提起智慧心推測,神通不敵業力;哪怕是當「神」有天人五通,業障就是業障,把妹有把妹的難處,並不是愛怎樣就怎樣。安菲特裡忒這尊海后可能根本是魚奴,從小姐時代就在海裏天天跟魚族混在一起把魚類當知心朋友。像那種女性意識很強烈的女眾別說小姐時代很難搞,就算出嫁還是會很有主見、跟丈夫平起平坐。不過,通常掌權的王者偏偏就會召感那種王后就是了,業力相應。

海豚座

(備註:海豚座在西方有唯美浪漫的星名與傳說,在東方完全相反。中國星官取的星名非常鄉土又實際:瓠瓜與敗瓜。中國版的星名簡直就像平常菜市場裏特別舉辦「瓜攤大特價」……)

約伯之棺俯視人間,
注視你關閉權力的那一天。
你必須反操作那破壞性傾向。
讓你的火開始療癒憤恨。
姐妹們,
是時候讓它重返正軌了。


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