1. That's the truth, Max, they never end. That keyboard is infinite.

That's the truth, Max, they never end.

2. And if that keyboard is infinite, then on that keyboard there is no music you can play.

How can you play music on an infinite keyboard?

3. You are sitting on the wrong bench. That's God's piano.

It is not played for mortals, but for God.

4. Christ! Did you see the streets? Just the street-----there were thousands of them.

Oh! Just the streets, there were thousands of them.

5. How do you do it down there? How do you choose just one?

Once ashore, where to go?

6. What I did not see was where the whole thing came to an end, the end of the world.

　I couldn’t see the end of the city, I needed to see the end of the world.

7. Take a piano, hmm? The keys begin, the keys end. You know there are 88 of them. Nobody can tell you different. They are not infinite

Take the piano Generally speaking, the keyboard has a beginning and an end. There are 88 keys, you can’t go wrong, they are not unlimited.

8. You are infinite. And on those keys, the music that you can make is infinite.

Music is infinite. On the keys, infinite music is played

9. I like that. That I can live by.

I like that, I can handle it.

10. You get me up on that gangway and you rill out in front of me a keyboard of millions of keys, Millions and billions of keys that never end.

walk across the gangplank , the front keyboard has countless keys.

11. All that city you just couldn't see an end to it.

The city is so big, you just couldn't see an end to it.

12. The end? Please? Can you please just show me where it ends?

Where is the end? Can you please show me the end?

13. It was all very final on that gangway and I was grant too in my over coat. I cut quite a figure, and I was getting off, guaranteed. That wasn't the problem.

I stepped on the springboard and didn't find it difficult. I put on my coat and looked very proud. I felt that I was talented, determined, sure and confident.

14. It wasn't what I saw that stopped me, Max, it was what I didn't see. Do you understand that? What I didn't see.

I stopped, not because of what I saw, but because of what I didn’t see. Do you understand? It’s because of invisible things.

15. In all that sprawling city, there was everything except an end. There was no end.

In all that sprawling city, there was everything except an end.

16. One woman, one house, one piece of land to call your own, one landscape to look at, one way to die. All that world just weighing down on you. You don't even know where it comes to an end.

Love a woman, live in a house, buy a piece of land, enjoy a view, and take a dead end. There are so many choices, I am at a loss as to what to choose, endless and boundless.

17. Aren't you ever just scared of breaking apart at the thought of it? The enormity of it.

18. I was born on this ship, and the world passed me by.

I was born on the ship, and the world passed me by.

19. But 2000 people at a time, and there were wishes here.

This ship only carries two thousand passengers at a time, carrying both people and dreams.

20. But never more than fit between prow and stern.

But the range cannot be separated from the bow and the stern.

21. You played put your happiness, but on a piano that was not infinite! I learned to live that way.

On a limited piano, I enjoyed myself, I Get used to living like that.

22. Land? Land is a ship too big for me. It's a woman too beautiful, it's avoyage too long, a perfume too strong, it's music I don't know how to make.

Land? To me, land is a ship that is too big and a beauty that is too beautiful. It is a voyage that is too long, a bottle of perfume that is too fragrant, and a piece of music that cannot be played.

23. I can never get off this ship. I'm blessed I can step off my life.

I can't abandon this ship, I would rather abandon my life.

24. After all, I don't exist for anyone.

Anyway, everyone in the world remembers me.

25. You are the exception, Max. You are the only one who knows I'm here. You are a minority, and you'd better get used of it.

Besides you, Max, you're the only one who knows I'm here. You're in the minority, and you'd better get used to it.

26. Forgive me, my friend, but I'm not getting off.

Friend, forgive me. I won't get off the boat.