She tried to hold me 她试图把我抱

She tried to hold me 她试图把我抱

She didn't know 她不知道

Love is letting go 爱是放手

   

She said ‘I'm looking for perfection' 她说： “我正在寻找完美”

As she strode in my direction 当她在我的方向大步

She cast her mantle round me, 她投下了自己的衣钵圆了我，

Said ‘I'm completed since you found me' 说： “我完成了，因为你发现了我”

She executed her enchantment 她执行她的魅力

Secreted me in her encampment 分泌的我在她的营地

With diversions and pretences 随着改道和借口

She dismantled my defences 她拆散我的防御

   

She tried to hold me 她试图把我抱

She tried to hold me 她试图把我抱

She didn't know 她不知道

Love is letting go 爱是放手

   

She told me I was unrealistic 她告诉我，我是不现实的

And then she went ballistic 然后她去弹道导弹

In her powder blue pajamas, 在她的粉蓝色睡衣，

Me some flotsam in her drama 我在她的剧中一些废料

She said “love's what I believe in” 她说：“爱的就是我相信”

But inside she was seething 但里面她是沸腾

With a cyclone raging under 随着下旋风肆虐

Like she was skin surrounding thunder 喜欢她的皮肤周围的风头

   

She tried to hold me 她试图把我抱

She tried to hold me 她试图把我抱

She didn't know 她不知道

Love is letting go 爱是放手

   

I made it to the stairwell 我曾在楼梯间

In the street I muttered farewell 在街上，我喃喃地说告别

With a driving wind again me 有驱风再次我

And shame exploding in me 而在我的耻辱爆炸

It took me six years to begin again 我花了六年时间才重新开始

To feel secure in my own skin again 再次感到安全在我自己的皮肤

For she lingered like uranium 因为她喜欢徘徊铀

Like a demon in my cranium 就像在我的头盖骨妖

   

She tried to hold me 她试图把我抱

She tried to hold me 她试图把我抱

She didn't know 她不知道

Love is letting go 爱是放手

   

All this was long ago now 这一切是很久以前的事了

And if I knew then what I know now 如果我当时就知道我现在知道

I'd have deployed a little patience 我已经部署了一点点耐心

I'd have laughed at all her stipulations 我曾嘲笑她的所有规定

But I was young and I fumbled 但我还年轻，我失手

A boy-fool whose castle crumbled 一个男孩，傻瓜的城堡崩溃

I couldn't save her 我没能救她

Though I forgave her 虽然我原谅了她

   

She tried to hold me 她试图把我抱

She tried to hold me 她试图把我抱

She didn't know 她不知道

Love is letting go 爱是放手