【Way Down The Line和訳】オフスプリング歌詞を徹底考察＆解説

Nothing changes cause it's all the same
The world you get's the one you give away
It all just happens again
Way down the line

There is a chain that's never broken
You know the story it's sad but true
An angry man gets drunk and beats his kids
The same old way his drunken father did
What comes around well it goes around

Nothing changes cause it's all the same
The world you get's the one you give away
It all just happens again
Way down the line

At 17 Shannon is pregnant
As young as her mom when she had her
Her kid is never gonna have a dad
The same old way that Shannon never had
What comes around well it goes around

Nothing changes cause it's all the same
The world you get's the one you give away
It all just happens again
Way down the line

And all the things you learn when you're a kid
You'll fuck up just like your parents did
It all just happens again
Way down the line

And welfare moms have kids on welfare
And fat parents they have fat kids too
You know it's never gonna end
The same old cycle's gonna start again
What comes around well it goes around

 和訳するにあたっての考え方メモ

 考え方メモ＜サビ①＞

Nothing changes cause it's all the same
The world you get's the one you give away
It all just happens again
Way down the line

繰り返されるサビ部分。

難しい単語はありませんが、言葉をそのまま訳していくと不自然になるので、意訳の要素を強くしています。

曲全体の歌詞からも、「The world you get's the one you give away」の部分は「（自分が）経験してきたことが（子供に）与えられるもんだ」という意味と考えられます。

「way down」は「ずっと」で、「way down the line」は「ずっと向こうまで続く」というニュアンス。

考え方メモ＜Aメロ①＞

There is a chain that's never broken
You know the story it's sad but true

An angry man gets drunk and beats his kids
The same old way his drunken father did
What comes around well it goes around

「come around」は「ぐるっと回ってやってくる」、「go around」は「一回りする、周回する」。

考え方メモ＜Aメロ②＞

At 17 Shannon is pregnant
As young as her mom when she had her

Her kid is never gonna have a dad
The same old way that Shannon never had
What comes around well it goes around

考え方メモ＜サビ②＞

And all the things you learn when you're a kid
You'll fuck up just like your parents did
It all just happens again
Way down the line

「fuck up」は「台無しにする、ヘマをする、めちゃくちゃにする」。

考え方メモ＜Aメロ③＞

And welfare moms have kids on welfare
And fat parents they have fat kids too
You know it's never gonna end
The same old cycle's gonna start again
What comes around well it goes around

「welfare」は「生活保護」。

• give away  手放す、与える
• way down  ずっと
• come around ぐるっと回ってくる
• go around  一回りする、周回する
• fuck up   台無しにする、めちゃくちゃにする、ヘマをする
• welfare  生活保護