When I was just a skinny lad on holiday by the sea, 当我去度假的只是一个瘦小的小伙子在海边，

I met a girl in a Rancid shirt, and a tape she gave to me 我遇到了一个馊衬衫的女孩，和她的磁带给我

With the Black Flag First Four Years and the Minor Threat Discography, 与黑旗前四年和较小威胁唱片，

And punk rock saved my life. 和朋克摇滚拯救了我的生命。

Going down the Red Eye back in 1998, 走下红眼早在1998年，

Hanging out with Household Names and staying out too late, 挂了家喻户晓的名字，并留得太晚，

This angry adolescent found an outlet for his hate, 这愤怒的青少年找到了一个出口，他恨，

And punk rock saved my life. 和朋克摇滚拯救了我的生命。

   

The vision wasn’t perfect and we knew it all along, 愿景是不完美的，我们知道，一直以来，

We dressed like fucking idiots and got our facts all wrong. 我们穿得像个他妈的白痴，得到了我们的事实都错了。

But everyone must needs be an extremist when they’re young – 但是每个人都必须需要的话，当他们年轻的一个极端 -

Fucking with your parents makes you grow up big and strong. 他妈的你的父母，使你长大了又大又强。

   

Folding zines and record sleeves while sitting round at home, 折叠zines和坐在轮主场唱片封套，

Flicking through the catalogues and distros at the shows, 通过目录和发行版的节目轻弹，

Circle pits and sing-a-longs, come on let’s fucking go, 圆坑，唱一个多头，来吧，让我们他妈的去，

And punk rock saved my life. 和朋克摇滚拯救了我的生命。

   

That little dream is over, it was never going to last. 那个小梦已经结束了，这是从来没有持续下去。

Everybody’s moved along and it’s all in the past, 每个人都搬到一起，这一切都过去，

But when I was just 16 I pinned my colours to the mast. 但是，当我刚刚16个I寄托我的色彩在桅杆上。

And punk rock’s in the ink that’s in my skin, 和朋克摇滚的墨那是在我的皮肤，

The attitude in every song I sing, 在每首歌我唱的态度，

And we didn’t change the world, we didn’t win, 我们没有改变这个世界，我们没赢，

We probably didn’t even save my life, it’s true 我们可能甚至不救我的命，这是真的

But I bet we had a better time than you. 但我敢打赌，我们有比你更好的时间。