the greatest show

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就簡單介紹一下而已。中文只是方便記憶。

不知道大家還記不記得剛畢業要找工作的時候。
當時找工作去公司面試，被說得好像要去考演員一樣。
各種教戰手冊心得報告應對技巧，都能出成一套書。
然後被人力公司要求面試之前必須倒背如流，才不會丟了他們的臉。

好好的一場面試，被他們修飾成一場the greatest show。

人力公司唱：
各位畢業生，
Ladies and gents, this is the moment you've waited for (whoa)

就業的危機，
Taking your breath, stealing your mind
And all that was real is left behind
Don't fight it, it's coming for you, running at ya
It's only this moment, don't care what comes after

隨著畢業典禮的日子越近越緊張。
Your fever dream, can't you see it getting closer
Just surrender 'cause you feel the feeling taking over
It's fire, it's freedom, it's flooding open

你想毫無準備就去面試嗎？
So tell me, do you wanna go?
Where it's covered in all the colored lights
Where the runaways are running the night

我們有化腐朽為神奇的必勝攻略。
Impossible comes true, it's taking over you
Oh, this is the greatest show

來上課吧，絕對物超所值。
It's everything you ever want
It's everything you ever need
And it's here right in front of you
This is where you wanna be (this is where you wanna be)

我們來教你如何面試。
This is the greatest show (oh)
This is the greatest show

聽著他們的形容幾乎所有的學生有了a million dreams。

畢業生唱：
一間上市公司如在眼前。
I close my eyes and I can see
The world that's waiting up for me
That I call my own
Through the dark, through the door
Through where no one's been before

從來沒人相信我能進那間公司。
But it feels like home
They can say, they can say it all sounds crazy
They can say, they can say I've lost my mind
I don't care, I don't care, so call me crazy
We can live in a world that we design
'Cause every night I lie in bed
The brightest colours fill my head

可是現在有了希望。
A million dreams are keeping me awake
I think of what the world could be
A vision of the one I see
A million dreams is all it's gonna take
Oh a million dreams for the world we're gonna make

薪水夠在首都生活買房。
There's a house we can build
Every room inside is filled
With things from far away
The special things I compile
Each one there to make you smile
On a rainy day

可是家長都不相信。
They can say, they can say it all sounds crazy
They can say, they can say we've lost our minds
I don't care, I don't care if they call us crazy

但這不就是我讀書所求嗎？
Oh a million dreams for the world we're gonna make
However big, however small

仲介公司：
你想上課嗎？
Let me be part of it all
Share your dreams with me
You may be right, you may be wrong

購買課程吧。
But say that you'll bring me along
To the world you see
To the world I close my eyes to see

一起唱：
一起實現夢想吧。
A million dreams is all it's gonna take
A million dreams for the world we're gonna make
For the world we're gonna make

進50強，進百大，別當躺平族。嘿，come alive。

仲介公司：
想想你糜爛的大學生活。
You stumble through your days
Got your head hung low
Your skies' a shade of grey
Like a zombie in a maze
You're asleep inside

你是不是想過要改變？
But you can shake away
'Cause you're just a dead man walking
Thinking that's your only option
But you can flip the switch and brighten up your darkest day

放心，進龍頭公司後就會不同。
Sun is up and the color's blinding
Take the world and redefine it
Leave behind your narrow mind
You'll never be the same
Come alive, come alive
Go and ride your light
Let it burn so bright
Reaching up
To the sky
And it's open wide

用我教的技巧你一定會上。
You're electrified
When the world becomes a fantasy
And you're more than you could ever be
'Cause you're dreaming with your eyes wide open

要有一往無前的勇氣。
And you know you can't go back again
To the world that you were living in
'Cause you're dreaming with your eyes wide open

行動吧。
So, come alive!
Come one!
Come all!
Come in!
Come on!
To anyone who's bursting with a dream
Come one!
Come all!
You hear
The call

打開上市公司的大門。
To anyone who's searching for a way to break free
Break free!
Break free!

爭取錄取結果！
So come alive! (Come alive!) (Yeah!)

對人資睜眼說瞎話才能rewrite the star。來模擬吧。

畢業生：
我想進貴公司。
You know I want you
It's not a secret I try to hide
I know you want me
So don't keep sayin' our hands are tied

學歷可能是我的弱項，但我很努力。
You claim it's not in the cards
And fate is pulling you miles away
And out of reach from me
But you're here in my heart
So who can stop me if I decide
That you're my destiny?

我能改變你的看法，
What if we rewrite the stars?
Say you were made to be mine
Nothing could keep us apart
You'd be the one I was meant to find

給我一個機會。
It's up to you, and it's up to me
No one can say what we get to be
So why don't we rewrite the stars?
Maybe the world could be ours
Tonight

仲介公司：
我們的門檻很高。
You think it's easy
You think I don't wanna run to you
But there are mountains
And there are doors that we can't walk through

專業度你無法勝任。
I know you're wondering why because we're able to be
Just you and me within these walls
But when we go outside, you're gonna wake up and see
That it was hopeless after all

何況你也沒證照
No one can rewrite the stars
How can you say you'll be mine?
Everything keeps us apart

這是規定，我們沒辦法用你。
And I'm not the one you were meant to find
It's not up to you
It's not up to me
When everyone tells us what we can be
How can we rewrite the stars?
Say that the world can be ours
Tonight

合唱：
一定有辦法；沒有辦法，
也許還有別的職位；也不適合你
再辛苦都可以；基層的缺也滿了
All I want is to fly with you
All I want is to fall with you
So just give me all of you
It feels impossible
It's not impossible
Is it impossible?
Say that it's possible
How do we rewrite the stars?
Say you were made to be mine?

我什麼都願意做；真的什麼都能做？
我只想進你們公司；那可能還有點辦法。
Nothing can keep us apart
'Cause you are the one I was meant to find
It's up to you
And it's up to me
No one can say what we get to be
And why don't we rewrite the stars?
Changing the world to be ours

還可以模擬未來進公司，到the other side的模樣 。

仲介公司：
這是合約。
Right here, right now
I put the offer out
I don't want to chase you down

自己看看條件。
I know you see it
You run with me
And I can cut you free

不但很苦還很累，你可以拒絕。
Out of the drudgery and walls you keep in
So trade that typical for something colorful
And if it's crazy, live a little crazy
You can play it sensible, a king of conventional
Or you can risk it all and see

我手上是你唯一能進的缺。
Don't you wanna get away from the same old part you gotta play
'Cause I got what you need, so come with me and take the ride
It'll take you to the other side
'Cause you can do like you do
Or you can do like me

願意我就錄取你。
Stay in the cage, or you'll finally take the key
Oh, damn! Suddenly you're free to fly
It'll take you to the other side

畢業生：
這條件也太苛，我不如重讀考證照。
Okay, my friend, you want to cut me in
Well I hate to tell you, but it just won't happen
So thanks, but no
I think I'm good to go
'Cause I quite enjoy the life you say I'm trapped in

我很想加入貴公司，可是待遇能不能調？
Now I admire you, and that whole show you do
You're onto something, really it's something
But I live among the swells, and we don't pick up peanut shells
I'll have to leave that up to you

沒想到你是黑心企業。違反勞基法小心被檢舉。
Don't you know that I'm okay with this uptown part I get to play
'Cause I got what I need and I don't want to take the ride
I don't need to see the other side
So go and do like you do
I'm good to do like me

你也不想上爆料公社吧。
Ain't in a cage, so I don't need to take the key
Oh, damn! Can't you see I'm doing fine
I don't need to see the other side

仲介公司：
科技業就是這樣。
Now is this really how you like to spend your days?
Whiskey and misery, and parties and plays

去問問其他公司。
If I were mixed up with you, I'd be the talk of the town
Disgraced and disowned, another one of the clowns
But you would finally live a little, finally laugh a little

福利不怎樣，但獎金可以打動你的。
Just let me give you the freedom to dream
And it'll wake you up and cure your aching
Take your walls and start 'em breaking

你再好好想想。
Now that's a deal that seems worth taking
But I guess I'll leave that up to you

畢業生：
獎金有多少？
Well it's intriguing, but to go would cost me greatly
So what percentage of the show would I be taking?

合唱：
比你想得高很多；幾個月？
20個月都有；我不是三歲小孩。
常態有10個月；我做。
Fair enough, you'd want a piece of all the action
I'd give you seven, we could shake and make it happen
I wasn't born this morning, eighteen would be just fine
Why not just go ahead and ask for nickels on the dime
Fifteen
I'd do eight
Twelve
Maybe nine
Ten

好好幹公司不會虧待你；好好幹我要賺獎金。
Don't you wanna get away to a whole new part you're gonna play
'Cause I got what you need, so come with me and take the ride
To the other side

做了才知道never enough的責任制 。

畢業生：
想著獎金，拼業績。數字慢慢往上爬。
I'm trying to hold my breath
Let it stay this way
Can't let this moment end
You set off a dream in me
Getting louder now
Can you hear it echoing?

學長帶著我寫程式，看山一樣的工具書，除錯的如長江之水連綿不盡。
Take my hand
Will you share this with me?
'Cause darling, without you
All the shine of a thousand spotlights
All the stars we steal from the night sky
Will never be enough
Never be enough

工時什麼時候會有盡頭。
Towers of gold are still too little
These hands could hold the world but it'll
Never be enough
Never be enough
For me

責任制何時結束？
Never, never
Never, never
Never, for me
For me
Never enough
Never enough
Never enough
For me
For me
For me

身體和健康就像走在tightrope上。

畢業生：
很多人都對人生有規劃。
Some people long for a life that is simple and planned
Tied with a ribbon
Some people won't sail the sea 'cause they're safer on land
To follow what's written

我們卻追著未知的工作量走，
But I'd follow you to the great unknown
Off to a world we call our own

公司說好好幹，只差一步。
Hand in my hand and we promised to never let go
We're walking the tightrope

血壓高到天際，
High in the sky
We can see the whole world down below
We're walking the tightrope
Never sure, never know how far we could fall

還不放棄追逐獎金。
But it's all an adventure
That comes with a breathtaking view
Walking the tightrope
With you, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
With you, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
With you

公司保證獎金會像金山一樣堆在眼前，
Mountains and valleys, and all that will come in between
Desert and ocean
You pulled me in and together we're lost in a dream
Always in motion

所以我們賭命爆肝，
So I risk it all just to be with you
And I risk it all for this life we choose

醫生說我多注意。
Hand in my hand and you promised to never let go
We're walking the tightrope

獎金多高，肝指數就多高，
High in the sky
We can see the whole world down below
We're walking the tightrope
Never sure, will you catch me if I should fall?

很快就能買房。
Well, it's all an adventure
That comes with a breathtaking view
Walking the tightrope
With you, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
With you, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
With you

from now on我不賣命了。

畢業生：
暈眩老花肌腱炎，
I saw the sun begin to dim
And felt that winter wind blow cold
A man learns who is there for him

頭禿早衰肝硬化
When the glitter fades and the walls won't hold
'Cause from then, rubble
What remains
Can only be what's true

身體健康全失去
If all was lost
There's more I gained
'Cause it led me back
To you

我不要再追逐金錢
From now on
These eyes will not be blinded by the lights
From now on
What's waited 'til tomorrow starts tonight
Tonight

我答應自己
Let this promise in me start
Like an anthem in my heart
From now on
From now on

晚上應酬，假日跑攤。
拉攏客戶，取悅主管。
I drank champagne with kings and queens
The politicians praised my name
But those are someone else's dreams
The pitfalls of the man I became

身體垮了他們還要我上班，
For years and years
I chased their cheers
The crazy speed of always needing more

做到血尿倒下，
But when I stop
And see you here
I remember who all this was for

我要停止爆肝，
And from now on
These eyes will not be blinded by the lights
From now on
What's waited 'til tomorrow starts tonight
It starts tonight
And let this promise in me start
Like an anthem in my heart

我都要準時下班。
From now on
From now on
From now on
And we will come back home
And we will come back home
Home, again!

求職首重能說出 this is me。

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