金曲 | Sleepyhead：睡美人
Galen Crew was a little-known American singer-songwriter to Chinese audience, and even abroad he is still a typical niche musician, who would be more than thrilled at his music video's obtaining over 10,000 views on YouTube. However, it is the man who made this ballad Sleepyhead that later became a musical blockbuster among young listeners from China and drew a fair amount of Chinese fans for him.
Galen is mostly inspired by fairy tales, whose spiritual meaning always fascinates him so much that he hopes to achieve a similar effect in his songs. In this way, the unexpected hit of Sleepyhead could be credited to the fairy story he tells in this song's lyrics in a minstrel's simple repetition, and the accompanying fulfillment of Chinese listeners's appetite for exoticism.
盖伦·克鲁并不是一位很出名的歌手，这首《睡美人》也并未在美国引起什么了不起的反响，但它却漂洋过海在中国的年轻群体中产生了一些妙不可言的化学反应，也暗示了年轻听众的一种喜好倾向。一是在所吟唱的颇具异域情调的中世纪故事中，盖伦仿若吟游诗人般将本来俗丽老套的公主王子故事描绘得引人入胜，正是这种异域感和流行性的完美融合打动了大洋另一端的听众；二是盖伦在音乐创作上所具有的一种纯粹而本真的特质，即为了描述而描述，不会用复杂的隐喻和晦涩的语言来劳人心脾，而是在简单干净的旋律中传达歌曲意趣，清新脱俗，让人耳目一新。
In the year of our lord 1239
公元1239年
There once lived
有个出生于
A girl of a royal line
王室家族的女孩
The ancient stories do recall
如古老的故事所讲述的那般
She was the fairest
她是王族中
Of them all
最美的一个
In the castle made of stone
她每晚都在石头砌成的城堡中
Every night she slept alone
独自长眠
Any noice
任何声音
That would raise the dead
甚至连亡者都可以惊醒的那些
Couldn't wake her sleepyhead
都无法叫醒这个睡美人
The stranger came from
某天遥远的国度
The foreign land
来了一个陌生人
Asking for the maiden's hand
来到此地向那个少女求婚
Her father said no go away
她父亲不同意 叫他离开
She's gonna marry a king one day
说她将来是要嫁给一个国王的
The stranger he came back again
陌生人他回去了
Riding with ten thousand men
之后带了万千骑兵卷土重来
The battle cries filled all with dread
战争的硝烟响彻天际
But couldn't wake her sleepyhead
但即便如此 也无法叫醒那个睡美人
The fighting lasted
战争持续了一整天
All day long
一整天
But the castle wall's
但城堡的城墙
Very thick and strong
又厚又坚硬
The stranger cried
那个陌生男子哭着诉说道
Let her decide
让她自己去决定
Where her true affections lie
要把自己的终身大事托付给谁吧
So the king knocked
于是国王去敲了敲
On her door
她的房门
Only you can end this war
并对她说 只有你能停息这场战争
No one knows
然而没人知道
How the story ends
故事的结局
Did she ever wake again
她那时候有没有醒来呢
Will she ever wake again
又或者之后会不会醒来呢
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