Did you get the invitation? 你得到的邀请？

The swan song of a nation, 一个民族的绝唱，

Everyone's waiting for you inside. 每个人都在里面等着你。

We got soda pop and hickory stills. 我们得到了汽水和山核桃剧照。

Quinn the Eskimo in espadrilles, 奎因爱斯基摩人的帆布鞋，

And Sally makin' you feel all right. 和Sally金你觉得没事。

   

The baroness and her bayonets, 男爵夫人和她的刺刀，

The mad hatter hedging bets, 疯帽子对冲赌注，

Against the good judgment of the swinging king. 对摆动王的良好的判断力。

It's the fall of the American empire, 这是美国帝国的衰落，

But don't you worry honey you didn't miss a thing. 但你不要担心亲爱的，你没有错过任何事情。

   

Juiced up dignitaries getting' loose like Thelonious did, 果汁了要人得松如Thelonious那样，

We got our own sanctimonious kid, 我们有我们自己的道貌岸然的孩子，

And he can suck the diamond off a diamond ring. 他可以吸钻石脱落的钻石戒指。

Just send in the farmers in the National Guard, 只需发送的农民在国民警卫队，

We'll be in the war room gettin' hard, 我们会在战情室刚开了难，

Just wear your dress blues you know you look so damn dashing. 刚穿你知道你看起来那么该死的潇洒你的衣服蓝调。

Don't be shy, Sally won't bite you, 不要害羞，莎莉不会咬你的，

'Cause she got her pants on fire, 因为她得到了她的裤子着火了，

And she got a rabbit baby calling your name. 她得到了一个兔宝宝呼唤你的名字。

   

Fall of the American empire, 秋天的美帝国的，

It should've been all right, 它应该已经没事了，

Should've, should've. 应该已经，应已。

But me, I'm just working a sound bite, 但是我，我只是努力健全咬，

Just rolling my smokes tight. 只是我滚抽烟紧。

You know they said it was all right, all right, all right. 你知道他们说这是没事的，没事的，没事的。

   

'Cause Lucy's in the nude, “原因露西的裸体，

With nothing left to lose, 有没有什么可以失去的，

Except them thigh-high kiss the sky American boots. 除了他们大腿高亲吻天空的美国靴子。

   

Sally got dirty with a senator's son, 莎莉有脏参议员的儿子，

You know the one from Massachusetts, 你知道，从马萨诸塞州的一个，

She was pleased to come his advances, 她高兴地来到了他的进步，

For he was a man of wealth and taste. 因为他的财富和品味的人。

But she got so cut up by the man who would not stop. 但她有这么切碎的人谁也不会停下来。

Thought all she needed was love, 想到她所需要的是爱，

But it was like nothing she thought, 但它像什么，她认为，

And when Lucy came to get her, 当露西来得到她，

In the corner she lay. 在角落里，她躺着。

   

It's the fall of the American empire, 这是美国帝国的衰落，

It should've been all right, 它应该已经没事了，

Should've, should've. 应该已经，应已。

But me, I'm just working a sound bite, 但是我，我只是努力健全咬，

Just rolling my smokes tight. 只是我滚抽烟紧。

You know they said it was all right, all right, all right, all right, all right. 你知道他们说这是没事，没事，没事，没事，没事。

Where you going Mr. Holy? 你要去哪里圣先生？

All right, all right, all right 没事，没事，没事

Say where you going Mr. Holy? 说你要去圣先生？

   

Lucy girl I found your diamonds, 露西的女孩，我发现你的钻石，

They shine like sirens, 亮得像警报器，

Singing from the shoals of buzzard's bay. 从鹫湾的浅滩唱歌。

It's worse than we know, 它比我们知道，

How I wish it wasn't so, 我多么希望这是不是这样，

That all tomorrow's parties have gone away. 所有明天的各方都走了。

   

Fall (all in for the fall) of the American empire, 秋季美国帝国（都在为秋季）

They said you would never go away. 他们说你永远不会消失。

Fall (all in for the fall) of the American empire, 秋季美国帝国（都在为秋季）

Lucy girl can't you just stay? 露西的女孩你就不能留下来？