The Greatest Show on Earth - Nightwish
Written by：Tuomas Holopainen/Marco Hietala
Archaean horizon
太古时代的地平线
The first sunrise
On a pristine gaea
最初的黎明
Opus perfectum
Somewhere there us sleeping
照射着原始的大地女神
After sleeping through a hundred
Million centuries we have
神工鬼斧
Finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet
我们仍在某个地方沉睡
Sparkling with color bountiful with life
Within decades we must close our eyes again
经历了上百亿年的沉睡
Isn't it a noble and enlightened
我们最终在这颗绚丽的行星上苏醒过来
Way of spending our brief time
被赋予色彩的闪耀
In the sun to work at understanding
The universe and how we have come to wake up in it
和生命的富饶
The cosmic law of gravity
Pulled the newborns around a fire
然而在数十年之内 我们终将再度闭上双眼
A careless cold infinity in every vast direction
Lonely farer in the goldilocks zone
在太阳下 将我们短暂的一生投入到探索宇宙万物
She has a tale to tell
追问存在之意义
From the stellar nursery into a carbon feast
难道这不是
Enter luca
高雅而开明的生活方式吗
The tapestry of chemistry
There's a writing in the garden
宇宙间的万有引力定律
Leading us to the mother of all
在燃烧中创造新生
We are one
We are a universe
每一个无限延伸的方向 无情而冰冷
Forebears of what will be
Scions of the devonian sea
宜居带内 旅者孤独前行
Aeons pass
Writing the tale of us all
她要讲述一段传奇
A day to day new opening
For the greatest show on earth
从孕育恒星的摇篮 到碳基物质的宴席
Ion channels welcoming the outside world
To the stuff of stars
生命始祖诞生
Bedding the tree of a biological holy
Enter life
化学反应编织出生命
The tapestry of chemistry
花园里书写的字句
There's a writing in the garden
引导我们寻根溯源
Leading us to the mother of all
我们是一体的
We are one
我们是整个宇宙
We are a universe
Forebears of what will be
孕育着未来
Scions of the devonian sea
泥盆纪汪洋中的后代
Aeons pass
Writing the tale of us all
世代变迁
A day to day new opening
遗留下我们的传奇
For the greatest show on earth
日复一日开启新的篇章
We are here to care for the garden
致以地球上最伟大的剧场
The wonder of birth
离子通道迎接着外部世界
Of every form most beautiful
通向恒星的构成物
We are one
We are a universe
种下神圣的生命之树
Forebears of what will be
Scions of the devonian sea
生命由此生长
Aeons pass writing the tale of us all
A day to day new opening
化学反应编织出生命
For the greatest show on earth
花园里书写的字句
After a billion years
引导我们寻根溯源
The show is still here
Not a single one of your fathers died young
我们是一体的
The handy travelers
我们是整个宇宙
Out of Africa
孕育着未来
Little Lucy of the afar
泥盆纪汪洋中的后代
Gave birth to fantasy
To idolatry
世代变迁
To self destructive weaponry
遗留下我们的传奇
Enter the god of gaps
日复一日开启新的篇章
Deep within the past
致以地球上最伟大的剧场
Atavistic dread of the hunted
Enter ionia the cradle of thought
我们到这来 悉心守护花园
The architecture of understanding
这一创生的奇迹
The human lust to feel so exceptional
世间美丽之最
To rule the earth
Hunger for shiny rocks
我们是一体的
For giant mushroom clouds
The will to do just as you'd be done by
我们是整个宇宙
Enter history the grand finale
Enter ratkind
孕育着未来
Man he took his time in the sun
泥盆纪汪洋中的后代
Had a dream to understand
A single grain of sand
世代变迁 遗留下我们的传奇
He gave birth to poetry
日复一日开启新的篇章
But one day'll cease to be
致以地球上最伟大的剧场
Greet the last light of the library
Man he took his time in the sun
十亿年后
Had a dream to understand
剧场仍旧上演节目
A single grain of sand
你们的父亲都不曾英年早逝
He gave birth to poetry
敏捷的旅行者
But one day'll cease to be
走出非洲大陆
Greet the last light of the library
来自远方的猿人化石
Man he took his time in the sun
孕育了幻想
Had a dream to understand
孕育了神灵膜拜
A single grain of sand
以及终将毁灭自身的武器
He gave birth to poetry
But one day'll cease to be
崇拜上帝的时代降临
Greet the last light of the library
深入到过去
We were here
血液里流淌的狩猎恐惧
We were here
We were here
艾欧尼亚 拥抱理性的文明诞生了
We were here
知识的大厦拔地而起
We are going to die and that makes us
贪婪的人类自命不凡
The lucky ones most people are never
渴望统治地球
Going to die because they are never
Going to be born the potential people
索求宝石的财富
Who could have been here in my place
也索求蘑菇云的杀戮
But who will in fact never see
这一切将无止境地重复上演
The light of day outnumber the sand
历史将以如此壮丽的方式画上句点
Grains of sahara certainly those
鼠辈横行的时代
Unborn ghosts include greater poets
Than Keats scientists greater than Newton
人类曾经在太阳底下
We know this because the set of possible
梦想着去探索
People allowed by our DNA so massively
一条砂砾上的纹路
Exceeds the set of actual people
In the teeth of those stupefying
他所创造的诗歌
Odds it is you and I in our ordinariness
总有一天将不复存在
That are here we privileged few
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Who won the lottery of birth against all odds
How dare we whine at our
人类曾经在太阳底下
Inevitable return to that prior
梦想着去探索
State from which the vast majority have never stirred
一条砂砾上的纹路
There is grandeur in this view of life
With its several powers
他所创造的诗歌
Having been originally breathed
总有一天将不复存在
Into a few forms or into one
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And that whilst this planet
人类曾经在太阳底下
Has gone cycling on according
梦想着去探索
To the fixed law of gravity
一条砂砾上的纹路
From so simple a beginning
Endless forms most beautiful
他所创造的诗歌
And most wonderful have been
总有一天将不复存在
And are being evolved
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