黎巴嫩之夜：當愛情遇上戰爭的傷痛

Lebanese Night

黎巴嫩之夜

by Chris de Burgh with Mazikana Elissa

It was late in a Lebanese restaurant, in the heat of a Lebanese night,

黎巴嫩炎熱的夜，夜已深，在一家餐廳

There was dancing, people were singing, she came in from the garden outside,

人們歡暢起舞，她從花園進入

And in her eyes I saw the stars,

在她眼眸里，我看見星輝閃耀

And I felt something happen in my heart;

胸中湧起一種奇妙的感覺

Then I knew I was going to meet her in the heat of a Lebanese night,

我知道，我將在這黎巴嫩之夜的炎熱里與她相見

And the girl inside the woman, who came over to sit by my side,

那女子心中的小女孩，穿越人群，在我身旁坐下

And when she smiled, the whole world stopped,

當她凝眸一笑，世界瞬間停息

It was then I heard the echoes of a child;

我聽到了一個孩子的聲音

And did you go to your bed with a sweet lullaby,

當你入睡，可曾伴著甜蜜的搖籃曲，

And the sound of the guns in the night,

還有那夜空里的槍聲？

And did you dance in the fields,

當你在田野里跳舞，

did you run for your life,

可曾因著那從天而降的地獄

From the hell that came down from the sky?

而狂奔逃命？

On a Lebanese night, on a Lebanese night;

在這黎巴嫩之夜，在這黎巴嫩之夜。

We went down to the edge of the water, by the light of a Lebanese dawn,

在黎巴嫩的黎明中，我們漫步到河邊。

And she told me all the stories of her beautiful land in the war,

她告訴我在她這片美麗土地上的種種戰爭往事

Her tears fell down, the sun came up,

她潸然淚下，太陽升起

And I saw again the young girl in her eyes;

我再次看見她眼中的小女孩。

And did you go to your bed with a sweet lullaby,

當你入睡，可曾伴著甜蜜的搖籃曲，

And the sound of the guns in the night,

還有那夜空里的槍聲？

And did you dance in the fields,

當你在田野里跳舞，

did you run for your life,

可曾因著那從天而降的地獄

From the hell that came down from the sky?

而狂奔逃命？

On a Lebanese night, on a Lebanese night;

在這黎巴嫩之夜，在這黎巴嫩之夜。

All of my life, all I have known,

我的一生，我的所知

only a place where peace cannot go;

和平皆無法達至

All over the world, the gift from before,

世界從前的禮物

nothing is left for the children of war;

沒有留下一點給戰爭中的孩子。

And did you go to your bed with a sweet lullaby,

當你入睡，可曾伴著甜蜜的搖籃曲，

And the sound of the guns in the night,

還有那夜空里的槍聲？

And did you dance in the fields,

當你在田野里跳舞，

did you run for your life,

可曾因著那從天而降的地獄

From the hell that came down from the sky?

而狂奔逃命？

On a Lebanese night, on a Lebanese night;

在這黎巴嫩之夜，在這黎巴嫩之夜。

On a Lebanese night, on a Lebanese night;

在這黎巴嫩之夜，在這黎巴嫩之夜。

I will be waiting, in the Lebanon.

在黎巴嫩，我會等待。

這首「Lebanese Nights」(《黎巴嫩之夜》)是Mazikana Elissa與Chris de Burgh合作的一首著名反戰歌曲，收錄於de Burgh 2002年發行的專輯」Timingis Everything」.

This is a song themed on anti-war by Chris de Burgh feat. Mazikana Elissa in de Burgh』s 2002 album 「Timing is Everything」.

Timing is Everything, 2002

歌曲以傳統的阿拉伯音樂譜成，描述了一位歐洲遊客愛上一位黎巴嫩女人，黎巴嫩女人向歐洲遊客講述了國土上種種戰爭的故事。在和平中生活的人們無法想像夜空里的槍聲，和從天而降的災難以及每日逃避戰亂的擔驚受怕。

Tuned in Arabic music, the song tells a romance of a European tourist falling in love with a Lebanese woman, and the woman telling him the stories of war on her motherland. Guns in the night, hell from the sky, all such nightmares are hard to imagine for one living in peace, but are the daily scenario for people who live in a land in the war.

中間的阿拉伯弦樂、鋼琴和西方弦樂所組成的間奏引出副歌「on a Lebanese night」一段，著重敘述了戰火中人們所受的苦難，而且旋律琅琅上口。

克里斯?蒂伯1948年10月15日出生於阿根廷。DeBurgh是一位英國外交官的兒子，然而他卻走上了歌唱道路。

Born on 15thOct 1948 in Argentina, Chris de Burgh is the son of a British diplomat, but he chose singing as his career.

Chris de Burgh

Chris de Burgh憑著優秀的音樂才能在樂壇中追求著商業性和藝術性的雙重目標。

With his high talent in music, de Burgh pursues his goal in both commercial and art fields.

有著「黎巴嫩寶石」之稱的黎巴嫩流行樂壇Mazikana Elissa，在中東可謂是家喻戶曉的巨星，是中東情歌的代名詞。

Mazikana Elissa is a Lebanese singer who is crowned as 「Jewel of Lebanon」 and enjoys high popularity in Middle East.

Mazikana Elissa

由於持續不斷的戰爭，大批黎巴嫩人被迫離鄉背井，到國外謀生，而Elissa便是在流亡中長大，居住在埃及。黎巴嫩境內形成了海外人口比國內人口更多的奇怪現象。

A large amount of Lebanese are forced to leave their homeland due to continual wars. Thus there comes the phenomenon that the overseas population of Lebanese is bigger than that of domestic.

順便插播一句，從19世紀歐洲人在西亞的殖民潮開始，就已經註定了今天中東的亂局。五次的中東戰爭（指1948年、1956年、1967年、1973年、1982年以色列與埃及、敘利亞等周圍阿拉伯國家所進行的5次大規模戰爭）、兩伊戰爭、伊拉克戰爭。

BTW, the chaos in Middle East is predestined with its deep root of European colonization in the region in 19c. Five Middle East Wars (1948, 1956, 1967,1973 and 1982), Iraq-Iran War, War against Iraq etc.

冷戰時代，在以色列和阿拉伯國家的背後，是以美蘇為首的兩大意識形態集團的對抗，而族群爭奪土地與資源，則是永恆不變的根源——小到耶路撒冷，大到整個中東。

During the Cold War, Israel and the Arabica were the frontier of antagonism between the two ideological groups led respectively by the US and the former USSR. For always, the root is the contending by races and groups for lands and resources from as small as Jerusalem to as vast as thewhole Middle East.

大國博弈，受傷的總是小國，犧牲的總是無辜平民。

In the gaming of powers, small countries and innocent civilians are always the victims.

除了五次中東戰爭以及戰爭中那些駭人聽聞的種種暴行以外（如1982年的貝魯特大屠殺），平時針對平民、難民的襲擊也不斷發生。以下，是由敘利亞的Wissam先生提供的黎巴嫩戰後和今天的照片。感謝Wissam先生，也祝願他的祖國敘利亞能夠儘快結束戰火，進入和平進程。

Besides from the 5 Middle East Wars and the appalling atrocities (such as the 1982 Beirut Massacre) thereof, the attacks against civilians and refugees take place constantly till even today. The following are the photos of the ruins in Lebanon after the 1982 Middle East War, taken in 1992, and of the land today, taken recently. Courtesy toMr. Wissam from Syriafor the photos. Wish his country out of war asap and enter into the roadmap ofPEACE.

1992年拍攝的黎巴嫩戰後景象

Ruins left by War in Lebanon in 1992

重建後現在的黎巴嫩

Lebanon standing up from ruins

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