Have you ever love someone so much, you'd give an arm for? 你有沒有那麼愛過一個, 你願意將手臂給他的人?

Hi all, I'm Meris!

Recently I try to delete some old songs in my laptop so I can have more free hard-disk memory to save my homework for coming years.
最近我嘗試在我的手提電腦騰空一些空位, 好讓我往後的功課有足夠空位儲存, 所以我選擇了刪除舊的歌曲

I carefully listen all the songs again, to avoid deleting some good songs
我仔細地看重新聽過每一首歌, 避免誤刪了好聽的曲目

and then, I listened to this one:
然後, 我聽了這首:

(When I'm Gone - Eminem)

這首歌是關於歌者Eminem他與他女兒的關係,
This song is about Eminem's relationship with his daughter,

作為一個甚有名氣的饒舌歌手, 要平衡家庭與工作是一件很難的事.
as a very famous rapper, it is very difficult to balance work and family.

他很愛他的女兒, 他甚至把他女兒的樣子作為在右臂紋身, 成為他身體的一部份.
He loves his daughter, he even uses her daughter"s face as a tattoo on his right arm, as a part of his body.

"Have you ever loved someone so much, you'd give an arm for?
Not the expression, no, literally give an arm for?"

(Eminem's tattoo, Eminem的紋身)

無奈工作需要, 他要經常遠行, 見家人的時間少之有少, 一次又一次答應他女兒不會再離去, 但卻又一次又一次讓他的女兒失望.
However, because of his job's need, he always has to travel far away, and it makes him have less time to be with his family, he promises his daughter he will never go away anymore, but he disappoints his daughter again and again.

歌中講述他的一個夢, 夢見自己因為工作而千方百計拒絕陪伴女兒, 更看見自己因為要娛樂在演唱會場六千名的觀眾, 卻滿足不了妻子和女兒的小小願望.
This song illustrates Eminem once dreamed of himself, uses all the method to reject his daughter for accompanying her, he even dreamed of himself because of those 6 thousand audiences entertainment, he can't even satisfy her wife and her daughter's wish.

""Now go out there and show 'em that you love 'em more than us"
That's what they want, they want you Marshall, they keep.. screamin' your name
It's no wonder you can't go to sleep, just take another pill"

歌詞中穿插著他和女兒的對話, 雙方的語氣都是抱怨, 一邊是為了他喜愛的工作, 另一邊的她卻只想她的爸爸不要再離開她.
Dialogues of Eminem and his daughter flow through the lyrics, but their tone is full of complaint, just because Eminem cannot balance his life, because of the work he loves, but moreover, her daughter just don't want his dad to leave again.

他很清楚自己是女兒的盔甲, 他不容許任何人傷害他的女兒, 但矛盾的是他同時間是傷害女兒最深的那一個,
He knows he is the amour of his daughter, he deny everyone from hurting her, but the paradox is that he is the one who hurts his daughter the most.

充滿著諷刺的歌詞, 透露出Eminem他自身的無奈.
Lyrics are full of sarcasm, and it shows Eminem's helpless feeling.

歌詞中提到, 他一邊寫的歌詞是想表達他多麼愛他的女兒, 但寫的時候卻因為不想被騷擾不斷把女兒拒諸門外;
In the lyrics he tells he was writing a song about how much he loves his daughter, but at the writing moment, he kept pushing her out of his door.

到夢的最後, Eminem用不同的災難比喻他和女兒的關係, 長此下去也會變成相同的災難.
In the end of his dream, his uses different disaster as a metaphor, to illustrate if this situation keeps on, his relationship with his daughter is also a disaster.

"I turn around, find a gun on the ground, cock it

Put it to my brain and scream "die Shady" and pop it

The sky darkens, my life flashes,

 the plane that I was supposed to be on crashes and burns to ashes"

這首歌, 都好讓我反思自己入大學後, 與家人的關係有沒有因為相處時間少了而變差呢?

This song reflects my life after being an university student, the lesser time be with my family is worsening our relationship or not?

幸好Eminem歌中的只是夢, 到歌的最後他醒覺後還來得及補救, 那我們呢?

Fortunately that was just a dream by Eminem, at the end of the song he is still able to fix the relationship, so, how about ours?