To the moon and back là một trong những ca khúc đưa nhóm Savage Garden đến vinh quang và cũng là ca khúc đánh dấu sự trục trặc trong nhóm khi thành viên hát chính quá nổi bật. Thật đúng là "thái quá sinh ra bất cập", đỉnh cao luôn đi kèm theo nó là sự tuột dốc. Tuy Savage Garden vẫn thành công ở nhiều ca khúc sau đó như I knew I loved you... nhưng vẫn không tránh khỏi sự tan rã. Tôi thật sự rất muốn dịch "phăng" này nhưng thật sự điều đó là không nên (ít nhất là trong ca khúc này), tôi muốn nó là chính nó và những độc giả sẽ cảm nhận được điều nguyên sơ nhất. Cám ơn những ai đã xem lời dịch này.
To the moon and back
Savage Garden
She’s taking time making up the reasons
To justify all the hurt inside
Guess she knows from the smile and the look in their eyes
Everyone’ got a theory about the bitter one
They’s saying: “Mama never love her much” and “Daddy never keeps in touch”
That’s why she shies away from human affection
But, somewhere in a private place
She packs her bags for outer space
And now she’s waiting for the right kind of pilot to come
And she’ll say to him
She’s saying
* Chorus:
I would fly to the moon and back if you’ll be
If you’ll be my baby
I’ve got a ticket for a world where we belong
So would you be my baby?
She can’t remember a time when she fell needed
If love was red then she was color blind
All her friends, well they’ve been trialed for treason
And crimes that were never difined
She’s saying: “Love is like barren place, and reaching out for human faith, it’s like a journey I just don’t have a map for”.
So baby’s gonna take a dive and push the shift to overdive
Send a signal that she’s hanging all her hopes on the stars
What a pleasant dream
She’s saying
* Chorus:
Hold on, hold on...
Mama never love her much
And, Daddy never keeps in touch
That’s why she shies away from human affection
But, somewhere in a private place
She packs her bags for outer space
And now she’s waiting for the right kind of pilot to come
And she’ll say to him
She’s saying
* Chorus (x2)
