林慧萍 - 驿 歌词翻译

Spoken voice: In train station waiting room often sat a neatly dressed middle-aged woman, who held an old suitcase and kept looking around, as she was expecting something.

The first time he saw the woman was during his high school time. Every evening he travelled from Taoyuan to Taipei for private tuition and backed to Taoyuan at late night eleven o'clock. The woman always sat on a wooden chair in the waiting room on time. The posture of waiting, restless eyes, properly dressed, as if she was waiting for someone to arrive.

At first he didn't pay any special attention to her, but after a long time, especially when there was no passenger, the loneliness of the woman was particularly significant. One day he finally decided to wait till that woman left the waiting room. Till late at night, till one o'clock in the morning, then the woman stood up, walked to the blackboard in the waiting room and wrote with a chalk:
"Shui: couldn't wait till you come, I go first! Ying"
Then he became aware after a long time that the comment of the waiting room was from that woman

Later, the old man at the train station told him that the woman had been sitting in the waiting room for more than twenty years. Some said she was insane. Some said they had seen she opened the suitcase and it's filled with clothes from her girlhood. Most people said that more than twenty years ago at a night, Ying and her Shui agreed to meet at the station, to elope to an unknown place, but that man who's called Shui didn't appear.

One day when he came home, he no longer saw Ying at the station. He asked a lot of people there, but no one knew why. This woman who was neither stopped by rain nor wind didn't come that day. The next morning Ying's mutilated body was found on the railway track. The suitcase was rolled very far away. On the passengers message board had her writing, only changed few words.
"Shui: Waited for you thirty years. I go first. Ying”

Just like this, the thread has broken
Just truly like this, not going to meet anymore
Fly beyond time, fly beyond horrizone.
Fly to another sky, where I no longer exist
After so many years, all the longings
float in the space, without an end
Life is like a piece of faded picture
but I still stand at the train station frozen in time

口白：火车站的候车室　时常坐著一位打扮整齐的中年妇人
手里抱著一个老式皮箱　游目张望　似乎在期待什么

第一次见到妇人是他高中的时候　每天夜里从桃园通车到台北补习 深夜十一点回到桃园　妇人总是准时地坐在候车室的木椅上
等待著的姿势　不安的眼神　端整的打扮　好像在等待著某一个约好的人

起先他没有特别留意她　可是时间一久　尤其是没有旅客的时候
妇人就格外显的孤寂　有一天他终于下定决心　在候车室等待那妇人离去 一直到深夜落　一直到凌晨一点　妇人才站了起来
走到候车室的黑板前用粉笔写著
「水：等你没等到　我先走了！　英　留」
那时他才知道　原来候车室长久以来的这则留言是出自那妇人

后来车站的老人告诉他　妇人已经在候车室坐了二十几年了
有人说她疯了　有人说曾看见她打开皮箱　箱里装的是少女时代的衣服 大部分的人都说　在二十几年前那个夜晚　英和她的水约好在车站碰面 要私奔到某一个不知名的地方　可是叫水的那个男人却缺席了

有一天他回家的时候　不再看到英的影子　问了车站许多人都不知道为什么 这风雨无阻的妇人那一天没有来　第二天的清晨
英残缺的身体被发现在铁道上　皮箱滚到很远的地方
旅客留言板上有她的字迹　只改了几个字
「水：等你三十年　我先走了　英　留」

就这样　断了线
就真这样　不再相见
飞出了时间　飞出天边
飞到另外一个　没有我的天
经过许多年　所有的眷恋
飘浮在时空里　没有终点
人生是一张　泛黄的相片
而我站在车站静止的画面