16 balloons against the blue 16气球对蓝

they're red, they're red like a dream come true 他们是红色的，他们是红就像梦想成真

Sure it was enough to give them to you 当然这已经足够让他们给你

to watch you let them go, let them go 看着你让他们走，让他们去

   

Empty your hands 清空你的手

of overheard conversations 的偷听谈话

Empty your hands 清空你的手

static from the big bang 从大爆炸静

and dinosaur radio stations 和恐龙广播电台

Empty your hands 清空你的手

genocides in foreign nations 在外国种族灭绝

Empty your hands and look up 清空你的手，抬头

   

His eyes are wide and beautiful, 他的眼睛是大而美丽，

my own feel dull and old 我自己觉得呆板老

They can't recall some buoyancy, 他们无法回忆起一些浮力，

they've had too much to hold, let them go 他们已经有太多的保留，让他们去

   

Floating past a daytime moon 飘过去白天的月亮

transparent as a shell 透明的外壳

Rubies in a well, sixteen apples on a tree 红宝石在一个良好， 16的苹果在树上

we never would have seen 我们永远都不会看到

if his fingers weren't so free 如果他的手指是不那么自由

   

Our baby learned to run today 我们家宝宝今天学到运行

in circles on the grass 在草地上的圆圈

His joyful face it radiates 他快乐的脸它辐射

These moments go so fast, let them go 这些瞬间走得这么快，让他们去