The Glass Garden

Daddy do you remember the glass garden

爸爸，你还记得那座玻璃花园吗

The lantern keeper and the paper whale

提灯人，还有那只纸鲸

I kept an ember there just for you and me

我在那里为你我留存了一簇火种

It's been glowing all this time it never left the trail

它始终闪烁着，从未熄灭

I was six drawing oceans on the ceiling of my room

六岁那年，我在房间天花板上画着海洋

The glass garden grew there alive in the gloom

玻璃花园在幽暗中生机盎然

The Lantern Keeper walked the paths with his little flame

提灯人捧着微光，巡行在小径上

And the Paper Whale swam through the air with no name

无名的纸鲸，在空气中自在游弋

I had a whistle made of rain that was the only key

我曾拥有一枚雨水哨子，那是唯一的钥匙

To call the whale to light the dark to set the garden free

唤醒纸鲸，点亮黑暗，让花园重获自由

Then she came in said stop this dreaming look at what you've done

后来她推门而入，呵斥我别再做梦，看看这一地狼藉

She closed the curtains and the garden lost its sun

她拉上窗帘，花园便失去了太阳

Daddy do you remember the glass garden

爸爸，你还记得那座玻璃花园吗

The lantern keeper and the paper whale

提灯人，还有那只纸鲸

I kept an ember there just for you and me

我在那里为你我留存了一簇火种

It's been glowing all this time it never left the trail

它始终闪烁着，从未熄灭

I grew up packed the lantern with my childhood clothes

我长大了，把灯笼和童年的旧衣裳一并收起

Got a desk got a clock forgot the way the whale rose

守着书桌与时钟，忘了纸鲸跃起的样子

The glass garden cracked the pieces swept away

玻璃花园四分五裂，碎片被清扫殆尽

The whistle made of rain rusted shut gone gray

雨水哨子锈迹斑斑，褪去了色彩

I told my own kid stop pretending focus on your test

我对自己的孩子说，别瞎想了，专心考试

Don't waste time on things that aren't real aren't the best

别在虚假无用的事情上浪费时间

I thought I'd killed the keeper thought the ember died

我以为我扼杀了提灯人，以为火种已熄灭

I thought the garden was a story I'd buried with my pride

我以为那花园只是被我随自尊一同埋葬的童话

Daddy do you remember the glass garden

爸爸，你还记得那座玻璃花园吗

The lantern keeper and the paper whale

提灯人，还有那只纸鲸

I kept an ember there just for you and me

我在那里为你我留存了一簇火种

It's been glowing all this time it never left the trail

它始终闪烁着，从未熄灭

Then my daughter came to me with something in her palm

直到女儿走向我，手心里捧着什么

A little seashell humming like a long-lost calm

那小小的贝壳，哼唱着久违的宁静

She said Daddy listen the keeper sent me this

她说：爸爸听，这是提灯人送我的

He said you locked the garden but it still exists

他说你锁上了花园，但它从未消失

And I felt my chest crack open felt the years unspool

我感到心防瓦解，岁月在眼前铺展开来

I saw the Lantern Keeper standing there quiet and cool

我看见提灯人立于此处，静谧从容

He said the garden never broke you just stopped looking through

他说花园从未破碎，只是你不再望向它

The ember was always here just waiting for someone new

火种一直都在，静候着新的传承

So I sat down on the floor and I let her show me how

于是我席地而坐，由她教我如何

To see the whale in the curtains to hear the keeper now

在窗帘后寻见纸鲸，去聆听提灯人的声音

She put the shell to my ear said Daddy can you hear it

她把贝壳贴在我耳畔，轻声问：爸爸，你听到了吗？

And I could I could hear it the rain and the spirit

我听到了，我听到了雨声与那灵动的气息

The garden came back all at once the glass began to sing

花园瞬间复苏，玻璃也开始悦耳齐鸣

The Lantern Keeper smiled said welcome back you've been

提灯人微笑着说：欢迎回来，你一直是

A child of the garden you just forgot the way

这座花园的孩子，只是你曾迷失了方向

But your daughter found the shell she brought back the day

但你的女儿找到了贝壳，带回了这道光亮

Daddy do you remember the glass garden

爸爸，你还记得那座玻璃花园吗

The lantern keeper and the paper whale

提灯人，还有那只纸鲸

I kept an ember there just for you and me

我在那里为你我留存了一簇火种

It's been glowing all this time it never left the trail

它始终闪烁着，从未熄灭