“If you want me to pay my taxes,” sang the 23-year-old man on the stage, loudly accompanied by the thousands in front of him, “You better come over with a crucifix(十字架（耶稣受难像）)/ You’re gonna have to nail me down(把我钉住；逼我表态).”
“如果你们想让我缴税，”舞台上那位23岁的年轻人唱道，面前数千人高声应和，“你们最好带着十字架过来/你们得把我钉死才行。”
Last Thursday night, I stood in a field in Dorset, and watched the headlining(领衔的，压轴的) attraction on the first night of the End of the Road festival. Geese are a rock group from New York, led by the extremely talented Cameron Winter, who has a lot to say, and an often gnomic, veiled way of saying it.(Geese 是一支来自纽约的摇滚乐队，由极具才华的卡梅伦·温特领衔，他有很多话要说，而且常常以隐晦、含蓄的方式表达。) But the meaning of the most celebrated lines on his band’s most recent album – Getting Killed – might be clearer than a lot of the rest.
上周四晚，我站在多塞特郡的一片田野里，观看了“道路尽头”音乐节首晚的压轴演出。Geese 是一支来自纽约的摇滚乐队，由极具才华的卡梅伦·温特领衔。他有很多话要说，而且常常以隐晦、含蓄的方式表达。但他乐队最新专辑《Getting Killed》中最著名的几句歌词，其含义或许比其余大部分内容都要清晰。
There are hundreds of different interpretations online of a song simply called Taxes, from death and martyrdom(殉道，殉难) to the avoidance of responsibility. He may just, I suppose, be telling the Internal Revenue Service to go away in the cause of small-state libertarianism(自由意志主义，自由至上主义). But at the risk of ridicule, I’ll opt for the most literal and crowd-pleasing reading: that Winter is inspirationally updating the idea of rock music sneering at the powers that be and rejecting whatever it is they want.(但冒着被嘲笑的风险，我选择最直白也最讨喜的解读：温特正在鼓舞人心地更新摇滚乐的理念——嘲笑当权者，拒绝他们想要的一切。) When I first heard those lines, in fact, I imagined him being cornered by Donald Trump, JD Vance and some or other Maga(让美国再次伟大（特朗普政治口号）) goon(打手，暴徒) squad, wearily exhaling and sending them on their way.
网上对这首名为《Taxes》的歌曲有数百种不同的解读，从死亡、殉道到逃避责任。我想，他可能只是在告诉美国国税局走开，以支持小政府自由主义。但冒着被嘲笑的风险，我选择最直白也最讨喜的解读：温特正在鼓舞人心地更新摇滚乐的理念——嘲笑当权者，拒绝他们想要的一切。事实上，当我第一次听到这几句歌词时，我想象他被唐纳德·特朗普、J.D. 万斯和某个 MAGA 打手团队围堵，他疲惫地叹了口气，把他们打发走。