歌名：Long Lost Penpal

作者：Hello Saferide

Hello Do you remember me I am your long lost pen pal

你好 记得我吗 久别的笔友

It must have been ten years ago we last wrote

距离我们上一次通信已有十年

I don’t really know what happened I guess life came in the way

不知后来发生了什么 或许生活本来就是这样吧

Let me know if you’re still alive Let me know if you ever used that knife or not

我想知道你是否过得还好 你是否想开了那些事情

Hello Yes I remember you

你好 我还记得你

I’ve got a husband and two children now work as an accountant and make fairly good money

我已经结婚了 是两个孩子的妈妈 工作还不错 做会计

I still have your letters, you used a pink pen to write them

我还留着你的信 那些用粉色笔写给我的信

And you would comfort me when my tears would stain the ink

我的眼泪洇湿了墨迹 而你会安慰我

And I would send you mix tapes with Kate Bush on

然后 我记得我会 寄KATE BUSH的磁带给你

I have to admit I sometimes lied in those letters

其实我不得不承认 我在信里说过谎

Tried to make life better than it was I still wasn’t kissed at sixteen

把我的生活说的很好 我的初吻并不是16岁

And I still need a friend

而且我仍然需要一个朋友

There was this letter I never told you this back then

这些写好的信 我从没想过要寄给你

But it would be fair to say it saved my life

不过，现在看来，它们救了我的命

I sat in the window The only one left out from a party again

我坐在窗边 唯一一个又中途退场的人

Pretty sure I didn’t have a single friend

很确信 我一个朋友都没有

Then I checked the mailbox

然后我查了查信箱

Dear long lost penpal I was lying the whole time

亲爱的久别的笔友 其实我一直在说谎

I’m really a 46 years old man named Luke

其实我叫LUKE 一个46岁的老男人

I have three children and a wife, she doesn’t care

我有三个孩子 还有一个妻子 她根本不关心我

And I hope you don’t resent me And I hope you do not hate me

我希望你不要怨恨我 希望你不要讨厌我

For trying to find my way back to what it’s like to be young

我只是想找回那些像是年轻一样的东西

歌曲背景：Long Lost Penpal来自瑞典音乐组合Hello Saferide，主唱名叫Annika Norlin，讲述的是久未联系的笔友之间的故事。关于这首歌，Annika说，她曾经有大概一百个笔友，常常会想这些笔友身上都发生了什么样的故事呢，于是就写了这首歌，这是一首以她的真实经历为基础的歌。

教学建议：

1.     这首歌和整个单元的主题相关性很紧密，教师可以在Lead-in部分使用，歌词也不困难，并且歌词中包含了pen pal, letter, pen, ink, mailbox, write等有关该单元的单词；

2.     long lost pen pal, It must have been ten years ago we last wrote. checked the mailbox等与写信有关的短语和句型值得学生学习；

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