二专歌词本里的短篇故事Letters from the Commander附带本人翻译

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Letters from the Commander
To my favorite ones, sons and daughters in the Passerby Army. I hope that these journal entries from the past decade of war with the Dread Army make it back to you intact. Grace and peace till we meet again. Yours faithfully, The Commander.
指挥官的信件
致 我爱的人，儿子和女儿，在过路人军的每一个人。我希望这些记录了过去十年与恐惧军的战斗记录会保持完好。但愿恩惠，和平，直到我们再次见面。此致，指挥官。

以下就是信了，Memento Mori这张专辑有12首歌+1首Interlude，那就是有12封信了，每封信的题目就是歌曲的题目

3.16.01 Chasm
While the enemy was losing the battle today, they cried out to us, "Memento Mori, we are human too! We are in pain and we are dying!". I answered them, hoping they would listen, "Break off your pact with the Dread Army! That is what is killing you! Walk away and take your life back! I know its all you've ever known, and walking away with leave a wound, but it will heal! When it does, do not enter into your pact with the vultures again! You don't have to be slaves to death! We've come to bring the truth of freedom! You were meant to be free!" But they wouldn't listen and kept cryng out, "Please give me something! I’ve so thirsty." I tried again with more urgency. "If you die here this way, you will have wasted your life on death and you will have never lived! Once you die here, the chasm will be fixed and you can never undo it. Turn from death and drink this life-giving water we are offering you!" The battle continued to rage, some turning and joining the Passerby Army, others dying.
3.16.01 隔痕
敌人今天在战场上节节败退的时候，他们对我们喊道：“人必有一死。我们也是人啊！我们正在痛苦中一步一步地迈向死亡！”我回复道，希望他们能听到“ 毁掉你们和恐惧军的契约吧，会杀死你们的就是那个契约。离开吧，带着你们的生命，去过回你们曾经的生活吧，带着你们的伤口离开吧，它会愈合的！你们一旦离开了就永远不要再跟'秃鹰'立签订契约了，你们再也不用当奴隶了，我们的到来是为这个世界带来真正的自由！你们注定得到自由！”但是他们并没有听我的话只是在不断地喊道：“请给我一些东西，我很口渴。”我在尝试用更加紧迫的方式跟他们说：“如果你们以这样的方式死去，你们将会浪费掉你们的生命，还有你们再也不能生存在世上了，一但你们死在这里，隔痕将被永远固定下来而你们永远都不能把它破坏掉，请你们放弃死亡来饮用我们为你们准备的生命之泉吧！”这场战斗愈演愈烈，一些敌人转向加入了过路人军，而其他敌人还在垂死挣扎。

6.1.02 This Close
I had two nightmares last night. In the first, I dreamed that I was in a huge crowd of people. We were all dead, but we pretended that we still lived. We did everything we could to experience the highest heights that life here has to offer, but we all started to feel a vacuum growing within our souls. All happiness was only as brief as a snowflake hitting a warm tongue. It began to drive us insane. I realized I was fighting for the Dread Army. All of a sudden a man appeared in the sky and we were all watching him. He was more alive than any of us had ever been and it made us all want to live. From the depth of every heart we began screaming in unison, "I don't know who I am anymore! Not once in life have I been real, but I've never felt this close before! I've been walking dead, watching you, long enough to know I can't go on!" I woke up devastated at having felt the emptiness of our enemies. I love them all.
Later that night I dreamed fire fell from the sky. I remembered prophecies I'd heard about hell, ones I'd scoffed at. I never wanted to believe in it, but somewhere in the back of my heart, I worried the prophecies might be true. Here in my dream, I saw the reality of it. This is the fate of our world without love, and so many people I love were lost in the midst of this fire. Again I woke up weeping at the potential fate of our enemies. I love them all so much.
6.1.02 接近
我昨晚做了两个恶梦。在第一个恶梦里我梦见自己在一大群人当中，我们都死了，但我们假装我们仍然活着。我们用尽所能去体验这里的生活，体验这个世界所能提供的最好的一切。但是我们很快就感觉到我们的灵魂被逐渐抽空，一切幸福的感觉都十分短暂，就像是一颗雪花击中了温暖的舌头，就这样我们逐渐地开始失常。我意识到我成为了恐惧军的一员，为恐惧军而战斗。突然间，有一个人出现在天空中，我们都望着这个人，他个人比我们当中任何的一个人都更像是真正活在这个世界上的人，看到这我们每个人心中都产生了想继续生存念头，此刻，我们齐声开始了发自内心的尖叫：“我应经不清楚自己是谁了！在生活上我从不觉得我是真正活着的，但这一次我有了一种如此接近活着的感觉！我会一直行尸走肉地走着，望着你，直达我不能继续为止！”我被惊醒了，因为我感受到了敌人的内心是如此的空虚，我爱他们。
在那晚的晚些时候，我梦见火从天上掉下来。我想起了我听说过的那个关于地狱的预言，那个我嘲笑过的预言。我从来都不想去相信那个预言，但是在我内心背面的某处，我担心那个预言会成真。说回到我的梦，我看到了现实的一面，这就是当世界没有爱的命运，这场火灾夺走了很多我爱的人。再一次，我含着泪水醒来，我想到了我们敌人潜在的命运，我真的很爱他们。

后面的不定期更新，Memento Mori这张专辑真的很深奥，光看歌词也完全不懂，但感觉是张神专

补张图，估计这人就是传说中的过路人军指挥官，就是专辑封面上的那人

我擦，missing被删了

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4.3.03 In the Dark
Many of my soldiers don't know this, but I grew up in the Dread Army and was a slave to death as a young man. The Dread Army lives in the dark, so that's where I lived when I was with them. I loved the darkness because I could hide all my flaws there. I never realized that darkness is a deceptive enemy. Everyone in the Dread Army is afraid of silence, so they fill every moment with empty, idle words. They all lie, so you can never truly know the genuine identity of a Dread Army solider. One night, I was spying on Passerby territory when I was captured and brought before the King of the Passerby Army. At the foot of His throne, where I laid trembling on the ground, was the most brilliant light I've ever seen. There was no darkness to hide in, and for the first time I saw all that I really was. The silence in this place was immense because in the light of the King, there is nothing to say...only things to realize. I had been an enemy of this powerful King all my life and if He had sentenced me to death right there, it would have been right...it would have been justice. Amidst these heavy thoughts, I was startled to feel the King's hand under my chin as he leaned down and lifted my face to his own. He spoke with a love I've never known before, saying, "We only want voluntary allegiance in the Passerby Army. If you stay here, you will be changed and it will feel like the old you has died, or...you may remain in the darkness as a slave. Either way, I love you, my son. You are free to choose."
As I left to go back to the Dread Army camp, I questioned everything I'd ever known. I realized in the face of the King's love that all my love was selfish and not really love at all. It was true that the only way for me to be changed would be for the King to kill who I had become and raise me up to live again, making me new.

卤煮加油

9.5.03 Set Apart This Dream
Remembering my days in the Dread Army gives me such an urgency to keep my daughter from joining them. I think often about when she was a baby. Every night I would tell her that she was beautiful and precious. I wanted to make sure she knew that she was worth more than anything in the world. I would tell her about the King of the Passerby Army and that He ruled everything, including her. I would tell her that since He is the King and a father to all, that she is a true princess. I used to dream of her growing up into a beautiful, wise woman that would change the world. I used to pray that over her, pleading for her to be spared from the things that every other man and woman in our family had to go through.
However, with all the potential that our free will gives us to freely love, we also must face the risk that our free will gives us the same potential to freely hate. My worst fears were realized when we found that she had been abused by a man who used his free will to try and destroy her. Her desire to join the Dread Army was simply the result of her having been hurt in the most unjust way possible. So my prayer for her as a baby was the one I prayed for her tonight, to set apart this dream.

1.23.04 Swept Away
I miss my daughter so much. I haven't heard from her in so long. Tonight, as I prayed for my daughter's searching to turn into glory, it gave me hope to remember my own time of searching and finding truth. The day after my capture and release from the Passerby King, I went to our morning meeting where the Dread Army commander was speaking as usual. She was a beautiful woman who always seemed to encourage us in our mission with eloquence and passion, but on this particular day, I began to see holes in her speech. Evil fell from her pretty mouth, wrapped in her classic voice. She was angelic in her syntax, but demonic in her motive. In the middle of her speech, she nodded to a man in the back and I turned to see him lean down and walk quickly from the room. Just then, an explosion went off and 50 people were killed instantly. The Dread Army commander yelled, "Help your brothers! The Passerby Army is full of murderers! Avenge your brothers!" As everyone turned to assist the wounded, I looked back at the commander, and saw her begin to smile. As she scanned the room with pleasure, her eyes fell on me and her smile vanished. Her face filled with hatred and my heart raged against her. I made my way to the stage and began to yell so the soldiers could hear what our commander had done. Everyone was silent as we argued and I picked apart her lies. I told the Dread Army about my meeting with the King of the Passerby Army and how much love he'd show me. Hundreds of them began to cry. She ordered me to be executed on the spot, but the guards were all weeping. I asked if anyone wanted to join the Passerby Army with me and thousands of open hands went up. She was outnumbered and slipped away before we could seize her.