[Music: Dream Theater / Lyrics: Mike Portnoy] [音乐：梦剧场/作词：迈克·波特诺]

   

[VIII Regret] [八后悔]

Hello, mirror, so glad to see you my friend 您好，镜子，很高兴见到你，我的朋友

It's been a while... 它已经有一段时间...

   

Staring at the empty page before me 我之前在空白页凝望

All the years of wreckage running through my head 贯穿我的头所有的年飞机残骸

Patterns of my life I thought adorned me 我的生活规律心想我装饰

Revealing hurtful shame and deep lament 揭示伤人的耻辱和深深的感叹

   

Overwhelming sorrow now absorbs me 铺天盖地的悲伤，现在我吸收

As the pen begins to trace my darkest past 当笔开始追溯我最黑暗的过去

Signs throughout my life 迹象在我的生活

that should have warned me 应该提醒我

Of all the wrongs I've done for which I must repent 所有我做的，我必须悔改委屈的

   

I once thought it better to regret 我曾经以为它更好地后悔

Things that I have done than haven't 的事情，我不是做了没有

Sometimes you've got to be wrong 有时候，你得是错的

And learn the hard way 学习困难的方式

And sometimes you've got to be strong 有时候你必须要坚强

When you think it's too late 当你觉得为时已晚

   

Staring at the finished page before me 我之前在成品页面凝望

All the damage now so clear and evident 所有的伤害，现在如此清晰和明显

Thinking about the dreaded task in store for me 在商店为我思考了可怕的任务

A pit of fear at the thought of my amends 恐惧在我赔罪的想到一个坑

   

Hoping that this step will help restore me 希望这一步骤将有助于我恢复

To face my past and ask for forgiveness 面对我的过去，并请求原谅

Cleaning up my dirty side of this unswept street 清理我的脏此未波及街道边

Could this be the beginning of the end? 难道这是结束的开始？

   

I once thought it better to regret 我曾经以为它更好地后悔

Things that I have done than haven't 的事情，我不是做了没有

Sometimes you've got to be wrong 有时候，你得是错的

And learn the hard way 学习困难的方式

And just when you're through hanging on 而就当你通过挂在

You're saved 你救

   

[IX Restitution] [九归还]

   

"Until that moment, I'd never felt like I'd failed at anything...And I felt like I failed her...And I failed myself, and I failed my children...It's still really hard to deal with." “直到那一刻，我从来没有觉得自己会失败的事情......我觉得我辜负了她，我还没有自己，我失败了我的孩子......这还真是很难对付“

   

"I want to thank you for helping me to see my own selfishness and to tell you how regretful I am it has hurt you." “我要感谢你帮我看看我自己的自私，告诉你，我已经伤害了你怎么遗憾。 ”

   

"I'm sorry I didn't visit you in the hospital, Grandpa when you were on your deathbed. I'm sorry I didn't come to your funeral...I don't know if I was selfish or just too scared to face it. It's one of the biggest regrets of my life." “对不起，我没有访问你在医院里，爷爷当你在你的临终。对不起，我不是你的葬礼......我不知道如果我是自私或太害怕去面对它，这是我一生中最大的遗憾之一。 “

   

"I'm here to confess with you that what I did, was wrong... And I'm asking for your forgiveness..." “我是来承认你的说法，我所做的，是错的...而且我要求你的原谅...... ”

   

"The only unforgivable thing hauls itself out of bed, looks over my shoulder at the bloody English weather..." “唯一不能原谅的事情拖拉自己下床，看在我的肩膀上的血腥英国的天气。”

   

"I really regret not being able to see my friend Andy..." “我真后悔没能看到我的朋友安迪...... ”

   

"One of my best friends who's the godfather of my daughter, he asked me to sing or play something at his wedding, and I turned it down because I was busy and too much of a chicken shit to do it...And I feel sorry for that, because it was a very very close friend of mine..." “我的一个最好的朋友谁是我女儿的教父，他让我唱歌或玩的东西在他的婚礼，我拒绝了，因为我很忙，太鸡狗屎做...而且我觉得遗憾的是，因为这是我的一个非常非常亲密的朋友。“

   

"So, I wanted to apologize to anyone that I've upset or offended.. they're just words, it's just an opinion, but unfortunately, I tend to express it as a fact, and that's kind of arrogant. Isn't it?" “所以，我想道歉，任何人，我不高兴或生气..他们只是也就是说，它只是一个意见，但不幸的是，我倾向于表达它作为一个事实，那就是一种傲慢，是不是吗？“

   

"I think it's the betrayal...it still haunts me." “我认为这是背叛......它仍然困扰着我。 ”

   

"I'm sorry for what I did back then... I was a different person. I really was and I'm so sorry. I wish it wouldn't have happened, but it did, and I'm sorry. Forgive me. I'm sorry..." “对不起为我做了什么，说不定那时我是一个不同的人，我真的是，我很抱歉，我希望它不会发生，但它做到了，对不起，请原谅我，对不起......“

   

"I guess I'm simply sorry for being me and not you. I so often wish you could be here with me to show me the way..." “我想我只是难过，我常常希望你能在这里和我一起给我指路的是我，不是你。”

   

If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are half way through. 如果我们潜心对我们发展的这个阶段，我们会惊奇地发现之前，我们通过在半路上。

We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. 我们要知道，一个新的自由和新的幸福。

We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. 我们不会后悔过去，也不希望把门关上就可以了。

We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace. 我们理解这个词的宁静，我们就知道了和平。

No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others. 无论多远下降的规模，我们已经走了，我们会看到我们的经验，如何能造福他人。

That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear. 无用和自怜的感觉就会消失。

We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows. 我们将失去自私事物的兴趣，并获得了我们的同伴的兴趣。

Self seeking will slip away. 自求会溜走。

Our whole attitude and outlook upon life will change. 我们生活在整体的姿态与面貌将发生变化。

Fear of people and of economic insecurity will leave us. 与经济不安全的人担心会离开我们。

We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us. 我们凭直觉知道如何处理它用来难不倒我们的情况。

We will suddenly realize that God is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves. 我们会突然意识到，上帝做了我们什么，我们不能为自己做的。

   

Are these extravagant promises? We think not. They are being fulfilled among us - sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize if we work for them. 这些奢侈的承诺？我们认为不会。他们正在应验在我们中间 - 有时快，有时慢。他们总是会实现，如果我们为他们工作。

   

"You're only as sick as your secrets, but the truth shall set you free..." “你只生病的你的秘密，但真理必叫你们得以自由。”

   

"The truth is the truth and the only thing you can do is to live with it." “事实就是事实，你唯一可以做的就是接受它。 ”