Every day that goes by 那流逝的每一天

A new hungry baby starts to cry 一种新的饥饿的婴儿开始哭泣

Born astride a painful grave 出生跨痛苦的坟墓

Drowned in hunger's tidal wave 淹没在饥饿的浪潮

Pick a child that you can save 选择一个孩子，你可以保存

It'd be the only one 这会是唯一的一个

   

If Africa escapes starvation 如果非洲的饥饿逃逸

Not only food but education 不仅是食物，但教育

The desert grows with every minute 沙漠中生长的每一刻

Trapping everybody in it 它俘获所有人

All the children look the same 所有的孩子看起来是一样的

They wonder why they came 他们想知道为什么他们来到

But it's hard to tell the poison from the cure 但很难从固化告诉毒药

It's harder still to know the reason why, why, why 这是更难知道为什么，为什么，为什么

The only thing I really know for sure 我唯一​​真正知道肯定

Is that another day, another day's gone by 是新的一天，又一天的过去了

   

Every day that goes by 那流逝的每一天

A brand new missile points towards the sky 朝着天空中的全新的导弹分

We're survivors of a game of chance 我们是一个机会游戏的幸存者

Beneath an arms race avalanche 下面的军备竞赛雪崩

If you survive this winter's cold 如果您度过这个冬天的寒冷

You'd be the only one 你是唯一的一个

   

If we escape annihilation 如果我们逃避毁灭

Not only hope but education 不仅是希望，但教育

The world is ruled by Bellophiles 这个世界是由Bellophiles裁定

Adding to their weapon piles 再加上他们的武器桩

Imagine what your taxes buy 想象一下，你的税买

We hardly ever try 我们几乎从未尝试

But it's hard to tell the poison from the cure 但很难从固化告诉毒药

It's harder still to know the reason why, why, why 这是更难知道为什么，为什么，为什么

The only thing I really know for sure 我唯一​​真正知道肯定

Is that another day, another day's gone by, bye,bye 是新的一天，又一天的过去了，再见，再见

   

That this too solid flesh 这太坚实的肉体

Would melt and resolve into a dew 会融化并解决成露珠

Suffocating lassitude 令人窒息的疲倦

Drowning in my platitude 淹没在我的老生常谈

Trapped by insecurities 由不安全感被困

I'm not the only one 我不是唯一一个

If I survive this dislocation 如果我生存的这个错

Have to use my education 必须使用我的教育

   

Chief of inactivity 不活动的总

Wasted creativity 浪费创意

Distances our revolution 的距离我们的革命

Silence is consent 沉默是同意

But it's hard to tell the poison from the cure 但很难从固化告诉毒药

It's harder still to know the reason why, why, why 这是更难知道为什么，为什么，为什么

The only thing I really know for sure 我唯一​​真正知道肯定

Is that another day, another day's gone by 是新的一天，又一天的过去了