Unless you believe in magic 除非你相信奇迹

There ain't much left you can be 没有剩下多少，你可以

A skeptic or a fool 一个怀疑论者或傻瓜

Have you been watching your TV 你一直在看电视

   

Incredible is all I think of 令人不可思议的是我所想到的

Did I really see 我真的看

Wordless faces double talkin' 无言的双脸说话“

A runnin' it down to me à飞奔下来给我

   

About buyin' time 关于买入的时间

Brother can you spare a dime 大哥你能抽出一角钱

And ain't it a crime 而这难道不是一种罪

How we got to buy time, yeah 我们是怎么买的时候，耶

   

People goin' hungry 人布莱恩饿

Ain't no jobs, they're in the street 是不是没有工作，他们在大街上

Nobody's got no answer 没有人没有得到回应

They're just staring at their feet 他们只是盯着自己的脚

   

Ain't no way about it 是不是没有办法呢

Things are lookin' pretty bleak 事情正在看着的一片惨淡

And everybody's scufflin' hard 而且每个人的scufflin “硬

Tryin' to make ends meet 试着去入不敷出

   

We're just buyin' time 我们只是买入的时间

Brother can you spare a dime 大哥你能抽出一角钱

Ain't it a crime 这难道不是一种罪

How we got to buy time, yeah 我们是怎么买的时候，耶

   

It happened once before, you know in 1932 这件事发生过一次，你知道在1932年

But now there's so many more of us 但是现在有那么多的我们

There's something we gotta do 还有就是我们要做的事

   

Something radical, something different 一些激进的，不同的东西

Got to hit on something new 有打新的东西

America, the dream is lost 美国，梦想丢失

And it's killin' me and you 而且它的吞噬着我和你

   

We're buyin' time 我们买入的时间

Brother can you spare a dime 大哥你能抽出一角钱

Ain't it a crime 这难道不是一种罪

How we got to buy time 我们是怎么买的时候

   

We're just buyin' time 我们只是买入的时间