《Eight Letters》出自2010年英国乐队Take That 的第六张专辑《Progress》，这也是Robbie Williams 归队后Take That的第一张专辑。

“Three words, eight letters, just say it to me, then I'm yours.” “三个单词，八个字母，一句话。说出来，我就是你的了。” 这八个字母，当然就是I LOVE YOU这句直接而又经典的告白了。

这首以此为名的旋律悠扬的歌出自英国乐队Take That 的第六张专辑《Progress》，这也是Robbie Williams 归队后Take That的第一张专辑。

《Progress》由顶尖制作人Stuart Price操盘。专辑首支主打单曲“The Flood”将于11月7日以数字形式发行，而实体CD将会在11月8日发行。 Take That（接招合唱团）是1990年创立的英格兰男子流行演唱组合。1990—1996年间，接招总共售出一千九百万张唱片。接招于1996年宣布解散，2005年又宣布重新组合复出。在华语地区，接招乐队演唱《Back for good》、《How deep is your love》等歌曲广为人知，被英国广播公司誉为“披头士之后最受欢迎的英国乐团”。

在刚落幕不久的第20届英国Q音乐大奖（Q Awards）上，Take That获得当晚最高荣誉名人堂大奖。Take That首次五人公开现身领奖。Robbie Williams在当晚接受采访时表示道：“我们非常开心能够回到乐坛，而且能拿下如此让人满意的成绩。这里，我非常感谢乐队的所有成员，因为他们，乐队才有今天。我非常期待Take That乐队将来的一切，这让人感到非常兴奋。”

We became the parade on the streets that we once cleaned

我们在曾经打扫过的街道上行军

Expendable soldiers smiling at anything

微笑着变成视死如归的战争牺牲品

Raised on a feeling our lives would have meaning eventually

死得其所的归属感 仿佛在心中慢慢升起

We were once the answer and then you discover

我们曾经为了得到答案苦苦追寻

You’re actually just one thing after another

而你发现自己不过是人海中一颗流星

And what was the question and why was the lesson so deafening?

当初到底在追求什么 为何教训如此血淋淋

This is all that matters now

这就是现在最重要的事情

And that was all that happened anyhow

也是我们逃避不了的宿命

You can look back but don’t stare

你可以偶然回望 但不要凝视忘情

Maybe I can love you out of there

也许我会爱上你模糊的背影

And when I went away what I forgot to say

当我渐行渐远 却把一直想说的那三个字

Was all I had to say:

忘得一干二净

Eight letters, three words, one meaning

一句话 三个字 诺半生

And outside forces didn’t make it easy

最后还是敌不过外界的压力重重

So I thought I’d go before you leave me

于是在你离开之前我选择了先行

Self-preservation was no explanation for anything

自我保护并不是什么合适的借口

But the truth is more than we’ll ever comprehend

真相远远胜过我们能理解的域境

I’m just starting to understand, my friend

在时过境迁之后 我终于开始明白

All of that distance, cause I fell in love with the enemy

只因爱上敌人 才导致这段距离的产生

This is all that matters now

这就是现在最重要的事情

And that was all that happened anyhow

也是我们逃避不了的宿命

You can look back but don’t stare

你可以偶然回望 但不要凝视忘情

Maybe I can love you out of there

也许我会爱上你模糊的背影

And when I went away what I forgot to say

当我渐行渐远 却把一直想说的那三个字

Was all I had to say:

忘得一干二净

Eight letters, three words, one meaning

一句话 三个字 诺半生

And when I went away what I forgot to say

当我渐行渐远 却把一直想说的那三个字

Was all I had to say:

忘得一干二净

Eight letters, three words, one meaning

一句话 三个字 诺半生

At last, we meet on no man’s land

也许我们终会在无人岛上邂逅余生

Just footprints in the sand

在沙滩上留下串串相伴的脚印

We meet on no man’s land, at last

在天涯海角实现那些年少的美梦

And when I went away what I forgot to say

当我渐行渐远 却把一直想说的那三个字

Was all I had to say:

忘得一干二净

Eight letters, three words, one meaning

一句话 三个字 诺半生

And when I went away what I forgot to say

当我渐行渐远 却把一直想说的那三个字

Was all I had to say:

忘得一干二净

Eight letters, three words, one meaning

一句话 三个字 诺半生

One meaning

那三个字

Just one meaning

守候半生