The Agonist - The Sentient Lyrics

The Sentient
知覺者

Here once stood one hundred million species
這裡曾經存在上億個物種

Undiscovered until extinction
未被發現,直到滅絕

Here once stood unnatural amounts of prey turned product
這裡曾經存在,眾多反常的獵物所製成的產品

Mechanized slaughter
機械化的屠宰

The sentient flaunted their machinist superiority
知覺者憑藉他們技師的優勢

An ersatz compensation for real instincts lost
一種補償實際損失的本能

Millennia of ancestry, plowed down for modern industry
數千年的血脈,因現今工業而傾頹

The solution to their housing crisis was in fact the cause
讓他們存活下去的方法就是一切的起因

So why not humanity for habitats?
但是對其餘生命為何沒有任何憐憫?

Because they are damned if they do
因為他們做了會被指責

And damned when they can't!
無法去做也被指責!

Euthanasia is a crimeless death penalty
安樂死是無罪的死刑

but it's still better than what they get
但這仍舊好過

when tortured, brutally murdered, because some fucking coward can't make a clean living
被折磨、殘忍撲殺,只因為那些操他媽的懦夫無法做到一絲不茍

So he picks on the voiceless children
於是,他們挑上了那些無聲的孩子們

"Well they're not smart like us, they won't feel a thing!"
嗯,他們不如我們聰明,他們察覺不到任何事

Thats a fact? Please explain!
事實真是如此?請解釋!

Why should we even care?
為何我們還要在乎?

The things we destroyed did not need to be there.
被我們摧毀的東西根本不必存在

(And we know what is right!)
(而我們知道什麼是對的!)

It's survival of the selfish!
自私殘喘存活

The bi-pedal tyrant goes down with his ship in the end
雙足站立的暴君最終偕同他的船沉沒

Here once stood invented laws and morals
這裡曾經存在刻意捏造的法律和道德

Applicable to selective followers
適合那些被挑選的信徒

And, as such, rulers reserved the right
還有,統治者保留他們的大權

To control matters of death and life
掌握了生殺大權

... oxygen and oceans...
氧氣與大海洋

Metal rusts, cement crumbles
金屬鏽蝕,水泥崩垮

To err is human, not divine
犯錯的是人,而非神

Prayers are so intently mumbled when proud man is forced to decline
祈禱之人專注低喃,驕傲之人被迫潰敗

Why should we even care?
為何我們還要在乎?

The things we destroyed did not need to be there.
被我們摧毀的東西根本不必存在

It's survival of the selfish!
自私殘喘存活

The bi-pedal tyrant goes down with his ship in the end
雙足站立的暴君最終偕同他的船沉沒

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