Powers

How did it start? Did I fall into a nuclear reactor

這都是如何開始的? 我是否墜入了核反應堆裏?

Crawl out with acid skin or somethin' worse

伴着酸蝕的肌膚 或更糟糕的東西 從裏面爬出來

A hostile alien ambassador?

一個懷揣敵意的外星使節?

Or am I simply another of the universe's failed experiments?

抑或是僅僅是來自另一個宇宙的失敗試驗品?

Either way, I have been wondering just how it is (How it is)

無論如何 我一直在想這到底是怎麼回事

I have never heard (Never heard) the tale of how I got my powers

我從未聽説過 關於我是如何被賦予權力的傳説

Thrust into being, careening along

成為真實的存在 一路猛衝

On a crooked little trajectory

沿着一條彎曲的小小軌道

Dissolving in movement, a body in orbit

溶化於一舉一動間 身體如軌道上的天體

Or a roach on his way to the gutter?

或只是一隻前往下水道的蟑螂而已

The tail of a comet burned up in an instant

彗星的尾巴轉瞬間殆盡

The destruction of matter

物質的湮滅

There's no object to be seen in the supercollider

超級對撞機裏看不見任何物體

Just the light in the tunnel and whatever gets scattered

除了隧道里的一束亮光 與四分五裂的物質

Light flashing before the eye of whatever comes after

不論之後會發生什麼 人生於眼前閃現

The force of our impact, the fission

我們的撞擊與裂變所帶來的力量

The hum of our contact, the sound of our collisions

我們接觸時的轟鳴 我們碰撞融合的聲音 ^[1]