《Virtual Insanity》是一首经典的酸爵士金曲,出自英国乐队Jamiroquai。这首歌除了非常好听以外,最让人印象深刻的肯定就是他那极具想象力的MV了。
这首歌在2000年左右被选为索尼Walkman的广告曲,在日本一炮而红。日清后面做了一系列改编名曲的杯面广告,其中就包括这首歌。
Virtual Insanity - Jamiroquai (杰瑞·李·刘易斯)
作词 : Derrick McKenzie/Toby Smith/Jason Kay
作曲 : Derrick McKenzie/Stuart Zender/Toby Smith/Jason Kay/Wallis Buchannan/Simon Katz
Oh yeah what we're living in let me tell ya
噢 耶 我们活在什么环境里 让我来告诉你
It's a wonder man can eat at all
很奇怪 伙计 什么都能被允许
When things are big that should be small
当轻微小事都被放大
Who can tell what magic spell we'll be doing for us
谁知道我们给自己施了什么咒语
And I'm giving all my love to this world
我把所有的爱献给世界
Only to be told I can't see I can' t breathe
却发现 我看不见 不能呼吸
No more we will be
我们已经无能为力
And nothing going to change the way we live
没什么能改变我们的生活
'Cos we can always take but never give
因为我们只会索取从不付出
And now that things are changing for the worse
如今事情又变得更糟糕
See it's a crazy world we're living in
看 我们生活的世界是多么疯狂
And I just can see that half of us immersed in sin is
我只看到一半的人沉浸在罪恶之中
All we have to give these
我们就这样造就了
Futures made of virtual insanity
错乱疯狂的未来
Now always seem to be govern'd by this love we have
现在看来 我们的爱似乎都取决于
For useless twisting our new technology
奇技淫巧的高科技
Oh, now there is no sound for we all live underground
噢 甚至没一个声音说出我们一直都活在阴暗里
And I'm thinking what a mess we're in,
我想整理我们搞的这一团糟
Hard to know where to begin
都不知道该从哪开始
If I could slip the sickly ties that earthly man has made,
如果我能解除人们定下这种病态的关系
And now every mother can choose the color of her child
让所有母亲都可以选择她孩子的肤色
That's not nature's way
但这可不是什么好事
Well that's what they said yesterday
好吧 早就有人这么说过
There's nothing left to do but pray
除了祷告我们无能为力
I think it's time I found a new religion
我认为该是时候换个信仰
Waoh it's so insane to synthesize another strain
哇喔真受不了 这又打了新的结
There's something in these future that we have to be told
我们似乎从一开始便能预见
Futures made of virtual insanity
错乱疯狂的未来
Now always seem to be govern'd by this love we have
现在看来 我们的爱似乎都取决于
For useless twisting our new technology
奇技淫巧的高科技
Oh, now there is no sound for we all live underground
噢 甚至没一个声音说出我们一直都活在阴暗里
Now there is no sound for we all live underground
没人说出我们都活在阴暗里
And now it's virtual insanity
这生活已彻底错乱疯狂
Forget your virtual reality
所以忽略你的疯狂吧
Oh there's nothing so bad I know yeah
噢 没什么能更糟糕了 噢我知道 耶
Of this virtual insanity we're living in
在这错乱疯狂的世界里
Has got to change,
必须改变
Oh things will never be the same
噢 不能就这样下去
And I can't go on,
我已经不能继续了
What we're living in
当我们活得
Oh oh virtual insanity oh,
噢 噢是如此错乱疯狂
This world has got to change
噢 这世界必须改变
'Cos I just can't keep goin on
因为我已经 已经不能再继续了
It was virtual, virtual insanity
这太疯狂 真是太疯狂了
That we're livin' in, that we're livin' in that virtual insanity
这就是我们生活的 我们生活的 错乱疯狂的世界
Is what it in
我们就活在这里
Futures made of virtual insanity
错乱疯狂的未来
Now always seem to be govern'd by this love we have
现在看来 我们的爱似乎都取决于
For useless twisting our new technology
奇技淫巧的高科技
Oh, now there is no sound for we all live underground
噢 甚至没一个声音说出我们一直都活在阴暗里
Futures made of virtual insanity
错乱疯狂的未来
Now always seem to be govern'd by this love we have
现在看来 我们的爱似乎都取决于
For useless twisting our new technology
奇技淫巧的高科技
Oh, now there is no sound for we all live underground
噢 甚至没人说出我们一直都活在阴暗里
Virtual insanity is what we're livin' in
我们就活在这错乱疯狂里