I've got this phosphorescent portrait of gentle Jesus meek and mild 我有耶稣温柔温顺和温和的这种磷光画像

I've got this harlot that I'm stuck with carrying another man's child 我有这个妓女说我坚持了搭载别人的孩子

The solitary star announcing vacancy burnt out as we arrived 孤独的星宣布空缺烧坏了，因为我们到达

They'd throw us back across the border if they knew that we survived 他们就会把我们后面越过边境，如果他们知道我们活了下来

And they were surprised to see us 他们惊讶地看到我们

So they greeted us with palms 因此，他们欢迎我们的手掌

They asked for ammunition, acts of contrition and small alms 他们要求弹药，行为的悔悟和小施舍

 

I might recite a small prayer 我会背诵的小祈祷

If I ever said them 如果我说他们

I lay down on an iron frame 我躺在上的铁框

Found myself in bedlam 发现自己在疯人院

I wish that I could take something for drowning out the noise 我希望我可以把东西给淹没了噪音

Wailing echoes down the corridors 哭倒相呼应走廊

 

I've got this imaginary radio, and I'm punching up the dial 我有这个虚构的广播，我冲了拨号

I've got the A.C. trained on the T.V. so it won't blow up in my eye 我已经得到了交流培训的电视上，这样就不会吹在我的眼睛

And everything that I thought fanciful and mocked as too extreme 和一切，我认为幻想和嘲笑为过于极端

Must be family entertainment here in the strange land of my dreams 必须是家庭娱乐在这里的异乡，我的梦想

Now I'm practicing my likeness of St. Francis of Assisi 现在，我练我的圣方济各的肖像

For if I hold my hand outstretched 因为如果我认为我伸出手

A little bird comes to me 小鸟儿来到了我

 

I might recite a small prayer 我会背诵的小祈祷

If I ever said them 如果我说他们

I lay down on an iron frame 我躺在上的铁框

Found myself in bedlam 发现自己在疯人院

Escaping from the fingers that were stretching through the bars 从是通过酒吧伸展手指逃脱

Wailing echoes down the corridors 哭倒相呼应走廊

 

The player piano picks out "Life Goes On" 玩家钢琴挑选出“生活在继续”

Ring tone rang out "Jerusalem" 铃声响了“耶路撒冷”

And in this pit of sadness 而在这坑的忧伤

Where the rank of wretched plunge 凡猥琐暴跌的排名

We've buried all the innocents 我们已经埋葬所有的无辜者

Now we must bury revenge 现在，我们必须埋葬复仇

 

They've got this scared and decorated girl strapped to the steel trunk of a mustang 他们有这种害怕和装饰女孩绑在野马的钢干线

And then they drove her down a cypress grove where traitors hang and stars still spangle 然后他们开着她下了桧树林，在那里挂卖国贼和星星依然金光闪烁

They dangled flags and other rags along a coloured thread of twine 他们跷着国旗和其他抹布沿绳的色线

And then they dragged that bruised and purple heart along the road to Palestine 然后他们拖着伤痕累累的紫色心脏沿路巴勒斯坦

 

Someone went off muttering, he mentioned thirty pieces 有人去了嘀咕，他提到30件

Easter saw a slaughtering, each wrapped in bloodstained fleeces 复活节看到了屠宰，每个包裹着血迹斑斑的羊毛

 

Then my thoughts returned to vengeance, but I put up no resistance 然后，我的思绪又回到了复仇，但我忍了无阻力

Though I seemed a long way from my home 虽然我好像离我家很长的路要走

It really was no distance 这真的是没有距离

 

And I might recite a small prayer 我会背一个小祈祷

If I ever said them 如果我说他们

I lay down on an iron frame 我躺在上的铁框

Found myself in bedlam 发现自己在疯人院

Bowing like an actor acknowledging applause 迫于像演员承认掌声

Playing the Crusader who was conquering the Moors 玩十字军谁是征服了摩尔人

And he knew the consequences, but he won't accept the cause 他知道后果，但他不会接受的原因

Wailing echoes down the corridors 哭倒相呼应走廊