Deep inside the border 深边界内

Children are crying 孩子哭了

Fighting for food 争夺食物

Holding their heads 抱着他们的头

Breaking their bread with a stone 打破了他们的面包，一块石头

   

All along the roadside 一直以来，路边

people are standing 人站在

watching the sun 看着太阳

shielding their eyes 保护自己的眼睛

Brushing the flies from their face 刷牙苍蝇从他们的脸上

   

Tell me, what can you say 告诉我，你能说什么

Tell me, who do you blame 告诉我，谁也怪你

Like a mirror you see yourself 就像一面镜子，你看到自己

These people each have a name 这些人每个人都有一个名字

   

All around the township 各地乡镇

Young men are dying 年轻男子正在死去

(of) hunger and thirst 饥渴（中）

The well has run dry 该井已干涸

The tears from her eye feeds her son 从她的眼睛中的泪水喂她的儿子

   

Tell me... 告诉我...

   

You can say you're pulling back 你可以说你拉回来

We see the pictures everywhere 我们看到的图片随处可见

But what we don't see is what's 但我们没有看到的是什么

Going on behind the closed doors 事情背后的闭门

And you don't seem to care 而你似乎并不关心

   

Do you expect me to believe you 你以为我会相信你

How can you really think 你怎么能真的认为

You can take your horse down to the water 你可以把你的马下到水

Hold a gun at his head 持枪在他的头上

And make him drink 并让他喝

   

No matter what you say, it never gets any better 不管你说什么，它从来没有得到任何好转

No matter what you do, we never see any change 不管你做什么，我们从来没有看到任何改变

   

People living without rights 人民生活无权利

Without their dignity 如果没有自己的尊严

How loud does one man have to shout 多么响亮也一个人都喊

To earn his right to be free 为了赢得他的权利是自由的

   

You can keep your toy soldiers 你可以把你的玩具兵

To segregate the black and white 以分隔的黑色和白色

But when the dust settles 但是当尘埃落定

And the blood stops running 和血液停止运行

How do you sleep at night? 你如何在晚上睡觉？

   

No matter what you say... 不管你说什么...

   

What makes you so high and mighty 是什么让你这么神气活现

What makes you so qualified 是什么让你这么有资格

You can sit there and say 你可以坐在那里说

How many have their freedom 有多少自由

But how many more have died 但多少人死亡

   

You decide to sit in judgement 你决定坐在审判

Trying to play God yourself 试图扮演上帝自己

Someday soon the buck is gonna stop 在不久的将来降压是不会停止

Stop with you and noone else 停止与你和其他人没有人

   

No matter... 不管...