歌曲:Graduation(Friends Forever)&梔子花開(視頻)

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The Ivy Ode: “Between the Chances”《機緣之間》英文原詩
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The Ivy Ode: “Between the Chances”

Written by David Griswold (Yale Class 2007)

The gate swings open, and minutes pass,

Someone cracks a joke – the last

Heard as a student.

Four years ago, this stage was far.

Now could we get there from where we are –

Well, who wouldn’t?

Bustling like bees, rallied into ranks,

Arranged like sinners giving thanks,

The time arrives,

And down the well-worn rows we march

To shake the hands, and disembark

Into our real lives.

The books we perused are snug in bed,

What angels watched us overhead

Extend their contracts,

While parents bend a wave of grief

Beneath a feeling of relief –

They can relax.

As we, in gothic, graying towers,

Gilded libraries, where we spent hours

Rehearsing facts,

Have borrowed knowledge of a kind

The ready heart can only find

When it reacts

To difference, and to love’s full

Enchantment. Too often, thoughts are dull

Or un-ignited

Without their better counterpart:

The art of making, made an art

Itself, unrequited

Until it is given back.

We are our books, barely a crack

Along the seams –

Their wisdom here, freshly imparted,

Is thrown to depths perpetually charted

Beyond the sun’s beams.

It falls to us, now graduated

To share the worlds we’ve contemplated,

To brandish hope;

To shield the war-sick, weary masses,

And separate the volatile gases

Before they elope.

It falls to us to be the strong,

To mark all those who worship wrong

Yet tempting causes,

To marshal out our erudition

Yet always keen to our position,

And our many flaws.

This task we have, these hearts to mend,

They are the same our fathers lend

From age to age:

The desperate manors, plush and futile,

The forges of the bored and brutal

Company wage.

Let us not marry our intent

To keep up the establishment

Of vain pursuits.

Remember what has meant the most,

Give others a chance, and do not boast,

Be kind in disputes.

And always, always, love with true

And fervent love. None may undo

What has been done.

A summer’s night cannot be made

Again – none uncode time’s blockade.

There is only one.

So did you gather all you wanted?

From classes, friends, professors vaunted

Above the gods?

The captive seeds that in us churn

Now to the earth must be returned –

Are there more words

You wish you had distributed?

Or times that, uninhibited,

You would have changed?

Collect them all, savor the lost

Chances, the freedoms that were glossed

Over, estranged

Embraces – pack them up for good,

And do not do what others would

Tell you is best.

Follow the distant drum that speaks

Of light and truth, and life that seeks

A surer rest.

The clocks are whirring with a fury,

The streets are lined with those who hurry

With heads averted.

The classroom doors to us now close,

Our busy hands are in repose,

Though disconcerted.

The hidden walkways known to us

Now open to those curious

Enough to look.

They pass along a legacy,

Our prints of anonymity

In every nook.

The stories of our hands explain

A common bond that must remain,

Though we are gone –

We are the grass, we are the rooms,

The silent marching that resumes

Its slow, proud song.

《機緣之間》中文版來源: 仲夏百合於 2009-10-15 19:38:00
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Song: Graduation (Friends Forever)
Artist: Vitamin C

And so we talked all night about the rest of our lives
Where we're gonna be when we turn 25
I keep thinking times will never change
Keep on thinking things will always be the same
But when we leave this year we won't be coming back
No more hanging out cause we're on a different track
And if you got something that you need to say
You better say it right now cause you don't have another day
Cause we're moving on and we can't slow down
These memories are playing like a film without sound
And I keep thinking of that night in June
I didn't know much of love
But it came too soon
And there was me and you
And then we got real blue
Stay at home talking on the telephone
And we would get so excited and we'd get so scared
Laughing at ourselves thinking life's not fair
And this is how it feels

[1]
As we go on
We remember
All the times we
Had together
And as our lives change
Come whatever
We will still be
Friends Forever

So if we get the big jobs
And we make the big money
When we look back now
Will our jokes still be funny?
Will we still remember everything we learned in school?
Still be trying to break every single rule
Will little brainy Bobby be the stockbroker man?
Can Heather find a job that won't interfere with her tan?
I keep, keep thinking that it's not goodbye
Keep on thinking it's a time to fly
And this is how it feels

[Repeat 1]

La, la, la, la:
Yeah, yeah, yeah
La, la, la, la:
We will still be friends forever

Will we think about tomorrow like we think about now?
Can we survive it out there?
Can we make it somehow?
I guess I thought that this would never end
And suddenly it's like we're women and men
Will the past be a shadow that will follow us around?
Will these memories fade when I leave this town
I keep, keep thinking that it's not goodbye
Keep on thinking it's a time to fly

[Repeat 1 (3x)]

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