【Walla Walla和訳】オフスプリング歌詞を徹底考察＆解説

Goodbye my friend, you've messed up again
You're going to prison, you're off to the pen
You've gotten off easy so many times
But I guess no one told you how to get a life

The judge wasn't lenient like he was before
You got three to five and a kick out the door
The public defender really did try
Too little, too late, you didn't get a life

Hey, in Walla,
I'll see you in Walla Walla
Slap on the wrist? Well, not this time
Hey, in Walla,
I'll see you in Walla Walla
Folsom prison is the destination
Hey, in Walla,
I'll see you in Walla Walla
Slap on the wrist? Well, not this time
In the scheme of life, we're all just brothers
Rehabilitate with all the others
Well, I'll see ya

That car looked so tempting, so easy to drive
Just like that apartment that you burglarized
You started to run, but didn't get far
Cause under your arm was a VCR

Ho ho, not this time my friend
You'll be in lockdown by ten
I'm afraid you can't talk your way out of this one, son
Now four walls are your 24-hour-a-day, constant companions.

Hey, in Walla,
I'll see you in Walla Walla
Slap on the wrist? Well, not this time
Hey, in Walla,
I'll see you in Walla Walla
Folsom prison is the destination
Hey, in Walla,
I'll see you in Walla Walla
Slap on the wrist? Well, not this time
In the scheme of life, we're all just brothers
Rehabilitate with all the others
Well, I'll see ya
Have a nice life

 和訳するにあたっての考え方メモ

 考え方メモ＜Aメロ①＞

Goodbye my friend, you've messed up again
You're going to prison, you're off to the pen

「mess up」は「しくじる、間違う、ヘマをする」。

「be off to ～」で「～へ向かう」、「pen」は「監獄、檻、囲い」という意味のスラングになります。

You've gotten off easy so many times
But I guess no one told you how to get a life

「get off easy」で「軽い罰ですむ」。「get a life」は「一人前になる、しっかり生きる」。

考え方メモ＜Aメロ②＞

The judge wasn't lenient like he was before
You got three to five and a kick out the door

「lenient」は「情け深い、大目に見る」。

「get three to five」は、ここでは「3年から5年の刑」という意味だと考えられます。

また「get kicked out 」で「追い出される、追放される」という意味となり、ここではそのニュアンスだと考えられます。

The public defender really did try
Too little, too late, you didn't get a life

「public defender」は「国選弁護人」。

考え方メモ＜サビ＞

Hey, in Walla,
I'll see you in Walla Walla
Slap on the wrist? Well, not this time

「slap on the wrist」は直訳だと「手首を叩く」ですが、「軽い（生ぬるい）お仕置き、叱責」という意味があります。

Hey, in Walla,
I'll see you in Walla Walla
Folsom prison is the destination

「Folsom prison（カリフォルニア州にあるフォルソム刑務所）」がお前の終点だと歌われていて、これは「Walla Walla」があるワシントン州ではありません。

なので歌の主人公が実際に行くのは、オフスプリングメンバーの地元のカリフォルニア州の刑務所だと歌われています。

ここからも、歌の中の「Walla Walla」は地名というよりは「刑務所」というニュアンスが強いのかと想像されます。

In the scheme of life, we're all just brothers
Rehabilitate with all the others
Well, I'll see ya

考え方メモ＜Aメロ③＞

That car looked so tempting, so easy to drive
Just like that apartment that you burglarized

「tempting」は「心をそそる、魅力的な、誘惑的な」。

「burglarize」は「泥棒に入る、侵入する」。

You started to run, but didn't get far
Cause under your arm was a VCR

考え方メモ＜Cメロ①＞

Ho ho, not this time my friend
You'll be in lockdown by ten
I'm afraid you can't talk your way out of this one, son
Now four walls are your 24-hour-a-day, constant companions.

「talk one's way out of」で「うまく言い逃れる、口先だけで逃れる」。

• mess up しくじる、ヘマをする
• be off to ～へ向かう
• pen　監獄、檻
• get off easy  軽い罰ですむ
• get a life   一人前になる、しっかり生きる
• lenient  大目に見る
• get kicked out of  追い出される
• public defender  国選弁護人
• slap on the wrist  軽い（生ぬるい）叱責、お仕置き
• destination  終着駅
• scheme  計画、仕組み
• rehabilitate 更生する、社会復帰する
• tempting   魅力的
• burglarize 盗みに入る
• VCR  ビデオ
• lockdown  封鎖、監獄
• talk one's way out of うまく言い逃れる、口先だけで逃れる
• companion 仲間、友、連れ