和影像與音符去旅行

Title: Slipping Through My Fingers

Music/Lyrics: Björn Ulvaeus & Benny Andersson

Vocal: ABBA

Schoolbag in hand, she leaves home in the early morning
Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile
I watch her go with a surge of that well-known sadness
And I have to sit down for a while
The feeling that I’m losing her forever
And without really entering her world
I’m glad whenever I can share her laughter
That funny little girl

Slipping through my fingers all the time
I try to capture every minute
The feeling in it
Slipping through my fingers all the time
Do I really see what’s in her mind
Each time I think I’m close to knowing
She keeps on growing
Slipping through my fingers all the time

Sleep in our eyes, her and me at the breakfast table
Barely awake, I let precious time go by
Then when she’s gone there’s that odd melancholy feeling
And a sense of guilt I can’t deny
What happened to the wonderful adventures
The places I had planned for us to go
(slipping through my fingers all the time)
Well, some of that we did but most we didn’t
And why I just don’t know

Slipping through my fingers all the time
I try to capture every minute
The feeling in it
Slipping through my fingers all the time
Do I really see what’s in her mind
Each time I think I’m close to knowing
She keeps on growing
Slipping through my fingers all the time

Sometimes I wish that I could freeze the picture
And save it from the funny tricks of time
Slipping through my fingers...

Schoolbag in hand she leaves home in the early morning
Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile...

歌名：指間流逝的時光

翻譯：Vincent

她一大早就拎著書包離開家

帶著一抹心不在焉的微笑對著我揮手道別

看著她離去的樣子一股熟悉的惆悵湧上心頭

我只能稍坐一會兒

無助地想著我終將要永遠失去她

卻都還不曾真正融入她的世界

然而我很高興能夠分享到她的點滴喜悅

她是這樣一個惹人愛惜的小女孩

時光不停地從我指間流逝而過

我試著去捕捉每一刻

還有箇中滋味

時光還是從我指間流逝而過

我真的知道她心裡在想什麼嗎

每當我覺得就要更了解她的時候

她卻又突然長大

時光不停地從我指間流逝而過

早餐的飯桌旁 我們都還睡眼惺忪

而我就任由寶貴的時光在面前溜走

當她離開之後 出其不意的憂鬱

和愧疚 我總是難以抵禦

那些我們曾經計畫的美好旅程

和嚮往的地方呢

(時光不停地從我指間流逝而過)

唉 有些我們的確去了但多半沒有成行

爲什麼我就是沒有察覺到呢

時光不停地從我指間流逝而過

我試著去捕捉每一刻

還有箇中滋味

時光還是從我指間流逝而過

我真的知道她心裡在想什麼嗎

每當我覺得就要更了解她的時候

她卻又突然長大

時光不停地從我指間流逝而過

有時候我盼望時光就凍結在一張張的相片裡

並且把它從歲月詼詭的戲法中存取下來

時光從我指間流逝而過

她一大早就拎著書包離開家

帶著一絲心不在焉的微笑對著我揮手道別

◎   我一直很喜歡這首歌的旋律，卻沒仔細去了解它的歌詞，當電影「媽媽咪呀」螢幕上打上這首歌詞的一字一句，發覺自己過去真是低估阿巴音樂的深度，Meryl Streep邊幫即將出嫁的女兒穿上嫁紗，邊唱出這首言簡意切又情深意濃的歌，這是為人父母者很輕易可以被觸動到的一段。雖然我的女兒現在還很小，我也知道二十多年後我再聽這首歌，我一定會更多感懷，即使有再多的不捨與悵然，我還是想對她說：「有夢想就要去實現，有幸福就要去追求，就算妳遠走高飛，在天涯海角，妳永遠都有我的祝福。」