she's looking in the mirror 她在照镜子

she's fixing her hair 她固定她的头发

and I touch my head to feel 我摸摸我的头感觉

what isn't there 什么是不存在

she's humming a melody 她哼着旋律

we learned in grade school 我们在小学学

she's so happy 她是如此快乐

and I think 而且我觉得

this is not cool 这是不是很酷

'cause I know the guy 因为我知道这个家伙

she's been talking about 她一直在谈论

I have met him before 我遇到他之前，

and I think 而且我觉得

what is this beautiful beautiful woman 这是什么漂亮美丽的女人

settling for? 解决的呢？

   

she bends her breath 她弯曲她的呼吸

when she talks to him 当她谈到他

I can see her features begin to blur 我可以看到她的五官开始模糊

as she pours herself 她自己倒了

into the mold he made for her 到他为她模具

and for everything he does 并为他所做的一切

she has a way to rationalize 她有办法合理化

she says he don't mean what he do 她说，他不是说他做的

she tells me he called 她告诉我，他叫

to apologize 道歉

   

he says he loves her 他说他爱她

he says he's changing 他说，他正在改变

and he can keep her warm 他可以让她温暖

and so she sits there like america 所以她坐在那里，像美国

suffering through slow reform 通过改革缓慢痛苦

but she'll never get back the time 但她永远不会回来的时候

and the years sneak by 潜行的年

one by one 逐个

she is still playing the martyr 她依然打的烈士

I am still praying for revloution 我仍然祈祷revloution

   

and she still doesn't have what she deserves 而她仍然没有什么值得她

but she wakes up smiling every day 但她醒来微笑每一天

she never really expected more 她从来没有真正预期的更

that's just not the way we are raised 这只是不是我们所提出的方法

and I say to her, 我对她说，

you know, 你知道，

there's plenty of really great men out there 有很多真正伟大的人在那里

but she doesn't hear me 但她不听我的

she's looking in the mirror 她在照镜子

she's fixing her hair 她固定她的头发