I've been playing TED for nearly a decade and I've very rarely played any new songs of my own. And that was largely because there weren't any.(Laughter)

我已在TED演奏了將近十年，可是我?guī)缀鹾苌傺葑嘧约旱男赂?。主要原因是，根本就沒有。

So I've been busy with a couple of projects, and one of them was this, the Nutmeg, a 1930s ship's lifeboat, which I've been restoring in the garden of my beach house in England. And, so now, when the polar ice caps melt, my recording studio will rise up like an ark, and I'll float off into the drowned world like a character from a J.G. Ballard novel. During the day, the Nutmeg collects energy from solar panels on the roof of the wheelhouse, and from a 450-watt turbine up the mast. So when it gets dark, I've got plenty of power. And I can light up the Nutmeg like a beacon. And so I go in there until the early hours of the morning. And I work on new songs. I'd like to play to you guys, if you're willing to be the first audience to hear it.(Applause)

我一直在忙于幾個項目，其中一個，叫做“肉豆蔻”（植物名）-- 一艘20世紀30年代的救生艇。我把它停放在我那英格蘭的海灘別墅一個后花園里。要是現(xiàn)在北極的冰川融化，我的這艘錄音室就會浮起來有如諾亞方舟，在這個淹沒的世界里漂向遠方，就像英國作家 J·G·巴拉德小說里的角色一樣。白天，“肉豆蔻”可以通過舵手室里的太陽能電池板，收集太陽能，和桅桿上一個450瓦特的渦輪機。那么當夜幕降臨，我就有足夠的電力照明，點亮照明燈，在黑暗中仿佛燈塔。我便待在里面創(chuàng)作直到天明。我已經(jīng)完成幾首新歌，如果你們愿意成為第一批聽眾，我將非常樂意演奏。

It's about Billie Holiday. And it appears that, some night in 1947, she left her physical space and was missing all night, until she reappeared in the morning. But I know where she was. She was with me on my life boat. And she was hot.(laughter)

是關(guān)于比利霍利迪（爵士樂壇的天后級巨星）的。當時有傳說，1974年的某個夜晚，她離開那個時空，消失了一整晚,直到第二天早晨又再度出現(xiàn)。不過我知道她去了哪里，其實她和我一起在這艘方舟，她很火辣。


大致歌詞：
Billie crept softly

into my waking arms

warm like a sip of sour mash

Strange, fruitful

a sweet hunk of trash

Panic at the stage door

for Carnegie Hall

Famous jazz singer gone AWOL

Must have left the building

body and soul

On a creaky

piano stool tonight

'cause the moon is my

only witness

She was breathing

in my ear

This time it's love

But love is a loaded pistol

By daybreak she's gone

Over the frozen river, home

Me and Johnny Walker

See in the new age

alone

Stay with me

again tonight

Billie, time,

time is a wily trickster

Still an echo

in my heart says,

This time it's love