Weill: Lady In The Dark - 1. One Life To Live - Anne Sofie von Otter/NDR-Sinfonieorchester/John Eliot Gardiner

作词：Ira Gershwin

作曲：Kurt Weill

There are many minds in circulation

Believing in reincarnation

In me you see one who doesn't agree

Challenging possible affronts

I believe i'll only live once

And i want to make the most of it

If there's a party i want to be the host of it

If there's a haunted house

i want to be the ghost of it

If i'm in town i want to be the toast of it

I say to me every morning

You've only one life to live

So why be done in

Let's see the sun in

And gloom can jump in the river

No use to beat on the doldrums

Let's be imaginative each day is numbered

No good when slumbered

With only one life to live

Why let the goblins upset you

One smile and see how they run

And what does worrying get you

Nothing the thing is to have fun

All this may sound kind of hackneyed

But it's the best i can give

Soon comes december

So please remember

You've only one life to live

Just one life to live

She says to her every morning

She's only one life to live

So why be done in

Let's let the sun in

And gloom can jump in the river

What you collect at the grindstone

Becomes a millstone in time

This is my thesis

Why go to pieces

Step one while you're in your prime

You may say that i'm an escapist

But i would rather by far be that

Than be a red tapist

Lead me speed me straight to the bar

Just laugh at old man repression

And send him into oblivion

Then you're the winner

I'm off to dinner

I've only one life to live

Just one life to live