Dear Mrs though we've never met I know very much about you 亲爱的女士，虽然我们素未谋面，我知道非常关注你

I know that you've got hair that shines like the morning sun 我知道你有头发闪耀如清晨的阳光

You've got eyes that hold the blueness of the sky 你有眼睛持有天空的蓝色

And of the deepest sea on a clear day and a smile that has a sparkle of a diamond 而在晴朗的日子最深的海，微笑，有一个钻石的闪耀

I know that because I've heard him say those things about you 我知道，因为我听到他说这些东西对你

These're the thoughts and the words of a man Thesere一个人的思想和文字

Who spent many heart breaking years behind prison walls 谁花了很多心脏打破多年监狱的高墙背后

The father of your children the man who worshipped the very ground that you walk on 你的孩子的父亲是谁崇拜你走在很勤的男人

He had a picture of you Mrs it was old and faded and torn 他有你太太的照片是旧和褪色和撕裂

But you could tell at a glance that he never exaggerated in his thoughts and visions 但是你可以在说，他从来没有夸大他的想法和愿景一览

He never left his cell without first checking to see if he had your picture with him 他从来没有离开过他的牢房没有先检查，看看他是否有你的照片与他

He was a young man when he first came to prison 他是一名年轻男子，当他第一次来到监狱

And he talked a great deal about you but as the years passed he talked less and less 和他谈了很多关于你的，但随着时间的流逝，他少说少

And during his last year here I don't believe he ever said a word to anybody 而在他去年在这里我不相信他曾经说过的一句话给任何人

He had the appearance of a man much older than he really was 他有一个人的出现很多年纪比他真的

He walked with his head down and his shoulders saggin' 他走路时带着他的头下来，他的肩膀saggin “

And the walk itself seemed to take a great deal of effort 而散步本身似乎费了好大的力气

He never received a letter or had a visitor while he was here in prison 他从来没有收到信件或有客人，而他在这里的监狱

But never did he stop looking and waitin' 但他从来没有停止寻找和等待着

Every day at mail call you could see him standing close to his bars 每天的邮件调用，你可以看到他站在靠近他吧

With the look of a child awaiting a reward 随着孩子的样子等待奖励

Even after the mailman had passed his cell his pleading eyes would follow beggin' 即使在邮递员已经通过他的牢房他哀求的眼神会跟着开始

As always he'd feel of his shirt pocket and then just stand there 一如往常，他会觉得他的衬衫口袋里，然后就站在那里

Staring at the emptiness and as always I could 盯着空虚和往常一样我可以

Somehow feel the lump in his throat 不知怎的，感觉他的喉咙肿块

And the burning in his eyes you know Mrs like just before you start to cry 和燃烧在他的眼里，你知道太太喜欢你开始哭泣之前

Well I thought you might like to know that they buried his body today 嗯，我想你可能想知道，他们今天埋葬他的尸体

Just outside the prison walls 就在监狱围墙外

They buried him there because nobody cared enough to claim his body 他们埋葬了他那里，因为没有人在意足够的权利要求他的身体

You know there was even a couple of old convicts there that actually cried 这竟然哭了，你知道还出现了几个老犯人那里

No not because they cared for him but for what he died from they cared for 无不是因为他们关心他，而是因为他死于他们的照顾

Loneliness every prisoner knows loneliness but some know it more than others 孤独的囚犯都知道寂寞，但一些知道它比其他人更

The man that they buried today had died many times 他们今天埋葬的人已经死了很多次

Every day he waited hopin' and prayin' for a letter or a card 每一天，他等了河滨和祈祷“的信或卡片

Or just a note or anything to let him know that somewhere out there 或者只是一个注释，或任何东西，让他知道，在外面有

Somebody cared for him 有人关心他

That assurance never came and today he died Mrs 这保证永远不会来了，今天他太太去世

He died from loneliness starved for love a love that nobody ever wanted 他从孤独缺乏爱的爱从来没有人想死

You see no man woman or child is immune to the need of love or to be loved 你看没有人的妇女，儿童是免疫的爱或被爱的需要

No matter how terrible his crime might have been 无论多么可怕他的罪行可能已

The death he died from today was more inhuman 他今天死的死，更不人道

But his suffering is over now and he's resting in a pauper's grave in a prison suit 但他的痛苦已经过去，现在和他安息在一个穷光蛋的坟墓在监狱服

And in his pocket is an old torn and faded picture of yes of you Mrs 而在他的口袋里，是你太太的旧撕裂和褪色的照片