We met by chance by the row river sign 我们偶然相遇的排河流的迹象

Our soft fire danced as our tea leaves dried 我们文火跳舞作为我们的茶叶干燥

She hatched our plans in the atmospheric tides 她孵出我们的计划在大气潮汐

Said, "Let's give up sacrifice this Lent 说， “让我们放弃牺牲四旬期

Well, that joke's long, it's been spent" 好了，玩笑的长，它已经花了“

   

So as the fool on the bagpipes played 因此，作为在风笛的演奏傻瓜

We kept cool in the parasol shade 我们保持冷静，在梧桐树荫下

Your thumb on my page at my tender age 你的拇指放在我的网页在我年幼

East enders wives 东恩德斯妻子

   

And hidden in the fox thorn blind 而隐藏在狐狸刺盲

We grew old as the foxtail pine 我们变老的狐尾松

Sheep in the cold shielding our gold 羊在寒冷的屏蔽我们的黄金

Sipping on milk and water like 喝着牛奶和水样

   

She packed our bags some arbitrary time 她把我们的行李有任意时间

Then waved like a flag from the white star line 然后挥挥手想从白星线标志

Unmoored, unwell, though I seldom elegize Unmoored ，不舒服，虽然我很少elegize

We both been untrue but I'm still counting on you 我们俩都是不真实的，但我还是指望你了

Like an invisible rosary 就像一个无形的念珠

   

And as the past and all plans are undone 而作为过去和所有的计划都被撤消

Slowly sank like a shipwrecked sun 慢慢地沉没就像一个遭遇海难的太阳

Bridges and ropes, burning them both 桥梁和绳索，无论他们烧

Burned up the sky 烧了天空

   

Choir sang as the black birds fell 合唱团演唱的黑色的鸟下跌

Sorrow rang like the church-yard bells 哀响像教堂的钟声码

An axe to the trees, smoke for the bees 斧头向树，烟雾蜜蜂

And all our dads died 和我们所有的爸爸死了