What can you see from your window? 你能从你的窗口看到了什么？

I can't see anything from mine. 我看不出与我任何东西。

Flags on the side of the highway 标志在高速公路边

and scripture on grocery store signs. 和圣经上的杂货店迹象。

Maybe eighteen was too early. 也许18为时过早。

Maybe thirty or forty is too. 也许30或40的了。

Did you get your chance to make peace with the man 你将有机会实现和平的人

before he sent down his angels for you? 之前，他派了他的天使的吗？

   

Mamas and grandmamas love you 妈妈们和grandmamas爱你

'cause that's all they know how to do. “造成这一切，他们知道该怎么做。

You never planned on the bombs in the sand 你从未想过在沙炸弹

or sleeping in your dress blues. 或睡在你的衣服蓝调。

   

Your wife said this all would be funny 你老婆说，这一切将是有趣的

when you came back home in a week. 当你在一个星期就回了家。

You'd turn twenty-two and we'd celebrate you 你会变成22 ，我们会庆祝你

in a bar or a tent by the creek. 在酒吧或帐篷的小溪。

Your baby would just about be here. 你的宝宝会只是在这里。

Your very last tour would be up 你的最后之旅将高达

but you won't be back. They're all dressing in black 但你不会回来了。他们在全黑打扮

drinking sweet tea in styrofoam cups. 喝甜茶的发泡胶杯。

   

Mamas and grandmamas love you. 妈妈们和grandmamas爱你。

American boys hate to lose. 美国男孩不想失去。

You never planned on the bombs in the sand 你从未想过在沙炸弹

or sleeping in your dress blues. 或睡在你的衣服蓝调。

   

Now the high school gymnasium's ready, 现在的高中体育馆的准备，

full of flowers and old legionnaires. 开满鲜花的老退伍军人。

Nobody showed up to protest, 没有人出现了抗议，

just sniffle and stare. 刚抽鼻子和凝视。

But there's red, white, and blue in the rafters 但是，有红色，白色和蓝色的椽子

and there's silent old men from the corps. 并有沉默的老男人的队伍。

What did they say when they shipped you away 他们说了什么时，他们出货你走

to fight somebody's Hollywood war? 打某人的好莱坞战争？

   

Nobody here could forget you. 这里没有人会忘记你。

You showed us what we had to lose. 你向我们展示了我们有什么可失去的。

You never planned on the bombs in the sand 你从未想过在沙炸弹

or sleeping in your dress blues. 或睡在你的衣服蓝调。

   

No, no you never planned on the bombs in the sand 不，不，你从未想过在沙炸弹

or sleeping in your dress blues. 或睡在你的衣服蓝调。