Cliff Richard & The Shadows
It won't (1) work (2) poor boy don't you try again
Fate
took over (3) your love and you can't win
You can sing the blues (4) all to yourself
But while you’re singing she's with someone else, poor boy,
while you’re singing she's with someone else
Love is strange but, poor boy, it has to be
In more than a hundred ways you're
just like me
You and I can try to face the foe
But we both know they won't be
back no more, poor boy, we both know they won't be back no more
Poor boy, I'm
sorry you're so blue (5)
But don't forget there's more than one of you
Poor boy, I'm
sorry you're so sad
But time will heal the pain won't be so bad, poor boy, time
will heal the pain won't be so bad
Let's forget, poor boy, and let's ride (6) alright
Bad luck can be good luck in disguise (7)
Someday new love may come to call (8), poor
boy, we'll be rich men after all, poor boy
Poor boy, we'll be rich men after all
(1) won't
will not
(2) work
to succeed
If
this plan doesn’t work, we’ll think of something else.
The strategy seems
to be working.
(1)+(2) won't work
行不通
(3) take over
assume control of something
接管
(4) sing the blues
* Literally, to sing blues music or in that style. There was this old man singing
the blues at the bar last night - it was a really moving bit of music.
* By extension, to complain, whine, or express grief, especially as a means of gaining sympathy from others. Many people will sing the blues over trivial inconveniences, while millions of others silently suffer real hardships every day.
(5) blue
* of a colour intermediate between green and violet, as of the sky or sea on a sunny day.
藍色
* INFORMAL (of a person or mood) melancholy, sad, or depressed. "he's feeling blue"
(6) let ride
allow something to be
ignored or to take or continue in its natural course.
聽天由命
(7) Bad luck can be good luck in disguise
塞翁失馬
古時候邊塞上有個老翁，丟了一匹馬。別人去安慰他，他卻說：「怎麼知道不是件好事呢？」過了幾個月，這匹馬果然帶著一匹好馬回來了。典出《淮南子．人間》。比喻禍福時常互轉，不能以一時論定。
宋．陸游《賀蔣尚書出知婺州啟》：「魯人獲麟以為不祥，雖愛憎之叵測；塞翁失馬未必非福，抑倚伏之何常。」
《儒林外史》第四0回：「蕭雲仙呼天搶地，盡哀盡禮，治辦喪事，十分盡心。卻自己嘆息道：『人說塞翁失馬，未知是福是禍。』」也作「北叟失馬」。
(8) come to call
If someone comes to call, they respond to an order or summons directly.
召之即來