Way Back to Paradise - Audra McDonald
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Lyrics by：Michael John LaChiusa
Composed by：Michael John LaChiusa
We are ruled by our brothers
我们被我们的兄弟统治着
We are ruled by our husbands
我们被丈夫支配
We jump at the voices of our masters
我们随着主人的声音欢呼雀跃
And do what they say
按他们说的做
We are bartered and traded
我们被人以物易物
Along with cattle and cotton
还有牛和棉花
We have to be beautiful
And it helps to have a dowery of some kind
准备一件嫁妆会更好
We have to show humility
我们必须表现出谦卑
And have the presence of mind
镇定自若
To never complain
从不抱怨
And they say it's our fault
他们说都是我们的错
We were thrown out of eden
我们被赶出伊甸园
To be turned into salt
变成盐
But there is a way back to paradise there is a way
但有办法回到天堂的
Study all men learn what they lack
研究所有人了解他们的不足
Sweeten and stroke before you attack
在你攻击我之前温柔爱抚我
Put up a front and then slip through the back
装上伪装从后门溜走
Be on your way back to paradise
踏上你重返天堂的旅途
Long ago back in eden eden
很久以前回到伊甸园
When we didn't need husbands husbands
我们不需要丈夫
We danced to the voices in the garden
我们随着花园里的声音起舞
And had our own way
走自己的路
We were taught by our mothers
母亲教导我们
Along the river of knowledge
沿着知识之河
Our garden was beautiful
Until the angels came to call
直到天使的呼唤
And on the wings of jealousy
乘着嫉妒的翅膀
They brought down the fall
他们让秋天降临
And gave the garden to men ah
把花园赐予人类
And put it out of our touch ah
让我们别再碰它
We were thrown out of eden ah
我们被赶出伊甸园
For knowing to much
因为我知道的太多
But there is a way back to paradise there is a way
但有办法回到天堂的
Bide your time bide your time
等待时机等待时机
Be clever and wise clever and wise
变得聪明睿智
When you look at a man when you look at a man
当你看着一个男人
Look him straight in the eyes straight in the eyes
直视他的眼睛
Do not be seduced tell him elegant lies
不要被诱惑对他说善意的谎言
Be on your way
踏上旅途
Be on your way back to paradise
踏上你重返天堂的旅途
