Life ain't nothing but a blending up of all the ups and downs 人生是没有什么，但所有的跌宕起伏的混合起来

Dammit Elvis, don't you know 该死的猫王，你难道不知道

You made your Mama so proud 你做你的妈妈很骄傲

Before you ever made that record, before there ever was a Sun 在你做过的纪录，之前有过是太阳

Before you ever lost that Cadillac that Carl Perkins won 之前你曾经失去了凯迪拉克卡尔帕金斯赢

   

Mr. Phillips found old Johnny Cash and he was high 菲利普斯先生发现老约翰尼·卡什和他的高

High before he ever took those pills and he's still too proud to die 高之前，他曾经花了那些药丸，他还是太骄傲死

Mr. Phillips never said anything behind nobody's back 菲利普斯先生从来不说背后没有人什么回来了

Like "Dammit Elvis, don't he know, he ain't no Johnny Cash" 像“该死的猫王，不知道他，他是不是没有约翰尼·卡什”

   

If Mr. Phillips was the only man that Jerry Lee still would call sir 如果菲利普斯先生是唯一的男人杰里李仍然会叫爵士

Then I guess Mr. Phillips did all of Y'all about as good as you deserve 那么我想菲利普先生所做的一切你们都大约是你应得的那么好

He did just what he said he was gonna do and the money came in sacks 他只是他说的话，他会做的，钱进来麻袋

New contracts and Carl Perkins' Cadillac 新的合同和卡尔·帕金斯的凯迪拉克

   

I got friends in Nashville, or at least they're folks I know 我纳什维尔有朋友，或者至少他们是人，我知道

Nashville is where you go to see if what they said is so 纳什维尔是你去看看，如果他们说的是如此

Carl drove his brand new Cadillac to Nashville and he went downtown 卡尔开着他的凯迪拉克全新纳什维尔和他去市区

This time they promised him a Grammy 这一次，他们答应他了格莱美奖

He turned his Cadillac around 他把他的凯迪拉克各地

   

Mr. Phillips never blew enough hot air to need a little gold plated paperweight 菲利普斯先生从来不吹够热空气需要一点点镀金镇纸

He promised him a Cadillac and put the wind in Carl's face 他答应了他的凯迪拉克和摆风在卡尔的脸

He did just what he said he was gonna do and the money came in sacks 他只是他说的话，他会做的，钱进来麻袋

New contracts and Carl Perkins' Cadillac 新的合同和卡尔·帕金斯的凯迪拉克

   

Dammit Elvis, I swear son I think it's time you came around 该死的猫王，我发誓儿子，我认为这是一次你来到身边

Making money you can't spend ain't what being dead's about 赚钱，你可以不花是不是正在死亡的约

You gave me all but one good reason not to do all the things you did 你给了我所有，但一个很好的理由不去做所有那些你该做的事

Now Cadillacs are fiberglass, if you were me you'd call it quits 现在，凯迪拉克是玻璃纤维，如果你是我，你会调用它退出