We need a myth 我们需要一个神话

We need an amethyst bridge 我们需要一个紫水晶桥

We need a high hanging cliff 我们需要一个高吊悬崖

Jump, fall and lift 跳，秋天和电梯

We can make it 我们可以把它

   

But we need a myth 但是，我们需要一个神话

We need a path through the mist 我们透过薄雾需要一个路径

Like in our beds, we were just kids 就像在我们的床，我们只是孩子

Like what was said by our parents 什么样的事情是由我们的父母说

   

A myth à神话

'Cause what we're after is just this “原因是我们所追求的就是这样

A myth à神话

'Cause what we're after is just this “原因是我们所追求的就是这样

   

We need a myth 我们需要一个神话

I feel my heart's like a fist 我觉得我的心脏就像一个拳头

Words spilling out of the blessed lips 也就是说溅出的祝福嘴唇

Of any prophet or goddess 任何先知或女神

   

I need a myth 我需要一个神话

Brought back to life by a kiss 用一个吻起死回生

Scrape away grey cement 刮掉灰水泥

Show me the world as it was again 给我的世界，因为它再次

   

As it was in a myth 因为它是在一个神话

A red ribbon to reconnect 红丝带重新连接

The lady's head to her neck 这位女士的头，她的脖子

And to forget that her throat was ever slit 而忘记了她的喉咙被切开过

   

'Cause what we're after is just this “原因是我们所追求的就是这样

It's a myth 这是一个神话

'Cause what we're after is just this “原因是我们所追求的就是这样

   

And I'm sick of all these picture books that try 而且我生病了所有这些图画书的尝试

To steal some old reflections for their light 偷一些旧的思考它们的光

But desperate measures point to desperate times 但孤注一掷的措施指向绝望的时刻

And that's why 这就是为什么

We need a myth 我们需要一个神话

   

We're cut adrift 我们正在削减漂泊

We need a mass uplift 我们需要一个肿物隆起

The world is trembling and weeping 世界正在颤抖和哭泣

Just at the point of believing 就在以为点

   

In a myth 在神话

The sun that shines on my head 那照在我头上的太阳

The moon that lights me to bed 这照亮我上床的月亮

Were two identical twins 两个同卵双胞胎

   

Inside of a myth 里面一个神话

I heard the voice of a friend 我听到一个朋友的声音

On Lethe's banks, wading in 在忘川的银行，在涉水

And he said, "Before I forget..." 他说： “以前我忘了......”

   

We need a myth 我们需要一个神话

As we lean in to kiss 正如我们在精益吻

To get two nails through the wrist 为了得到两个钉子穿过手腕

To get covered in blood 得到满身是血

And to get covered in spit 并获得覆盖吐

And to forgive 和原谅

   

And if all we're taught is a trick 如果一切我们教一招

Why would this feeling persist? 为什么这种感觉持续？

And with the truth closing in 并有真相逼近

I must insist 我一定要坚持

   

We need a myth 我们需要一个神话