Raney William's playground was among Haven's streets 雷尼威廉游乐场是其中沙湾街道

Where he ran past melted candles and flower wreaths 在那里，他跑了过去融化的蜡烛和鲜花花圈

Names and photos of the young black faces 年轻的黑人面孔的名字和照片

Whose death and blood consecrated these places 谁的死亡和鲜血神圣这些地方

   

Raney's mother said Raney stay at my side 雷尼的母亲说雷尼留在我身边

For you are my blessing, you are my pride 因为你是我的祝福，你是我的骄傲

It's your love here that keeps my soul alive 它在这里你的爱，使我的灵魂还活着

I want you to come home from school and stay inside 我要你从学校回家，并留在里面

   

Raney'd do his work and put his books away Raneyd做他的工作，并把他的书远

There was a channel showed a Western movie everyday 西方电影每天有一个通道表现

And that brought him home books on the black cowboys of the Oklahoma range 并且把他带回家的书在俄克拉何马州范围内的黑色牛仔

The Seminole scouts that fought the tribes of the Great Plains 塞米诺尔球探认为打大平原的部落

   

Summer come and the days grew long 夏天来了，天气变得更长时间

Raney always had his mother's smile to depend on 雷尼总是有他母亲的微笑依靠

Along the street of stray bullets he made his way 随着流弹的街道，他做他的方式

To the warmth of her arms at the end of each day 她的手臂在每一天结束的温暖

   

Come the Fall, the rain flooded these homes 来到秋季，雨水淹没了这些家庭

In Ezekiel's valley of dry bones 在干燥的骨头以西结的谷

It fell hard and dark to the ground 落到硬和暗到地面

It fell without a sound 下跌不健全

   

And they took up with a man whose business was the boulevard 于是他们抬起一个人，他的生意林荫大道

Whose smile was fixed in a face that was never off guard 她的笑容被定格在了脸上，这是从来没有过后卫

In the pipes 'neath the kitchen sink his secrets are kept 在管道照耀下厨房的水槽他的秘密被保存

In the day, behind drawn curtains in the next bedroom he slept 在这一天，后面拉窗帘，在未来的卧室，他睡

   

And she got lost in the days 她迷失在天

The smile Raney depended on dusted away 雷尼取决于微笑撒走

The arms that held him were no more his own 拉他的手臂也没有更多的自己

He lay at night his head pressed to her chest listening to the ghost in her bones 他躺在晚上他的头按到她的胸口听着她的骨头鬼

   

In the kitchen, Raney slipped his hand between the pipes 在厨房里，雷尼溜手的管之间

From a brown bag pulled five hundred dollar bills and stuck it in his coat side 从一个棕色的手提包拉到500美元的钞票，并在他的外套一边坚持到底

Stood in the dark at his mother's bed 在他母亲的床头放着在黑暗中

Brushed her hair and kissed her eyes 拂过她的头发，吻她的眼睛

   

In the twilight Raney walked to the station on streets of stone 在暮色雷尼走到站石街道

Through Pennsylvania and Ohio his train drifted on 经过宾夕法尼亚州和俄亥俄州他的火车上漂流

Through the small towns of Indiana the big train crept 通过印第安纳州的小城镇大火车蹑手蹑脚

As he lay his head back on his seat and slept 他就躺在他的后脑勺上他的座位睡着了

   

He woke and the towns gave way to muddy fields of green 他醒来和城镇让位给绿泥地

Corn and cotton and endless nothing in between 玉米，棉花和无尽没什么之间

Over the rutted hills of Oklahoma the red sun slipped and was gone 在俄克拉何马州的车辙山上的红太阳滑倒不见了

The moon rose and stripped the earth to its bone 月亮升起和剥离土其骨