Funny what you think of after a collapse 有趣的是什么你觉得崩溃后，

While lying in the dirt the first thing that comes back is never quite what you’d have guessed 虽然躺在污垢回来的第一件事就是遇不到什么你已经猜到了

And if you could have, you probably would’ve said you’d check if all your limbs were intact still and then try to get out 如果你可以，你可能会一直说你会检查是否所有的肢体仍然完好无损，然后想办法去

   

We played house with the neighbors in their basement 我们打​​的房子，在他们的地下室的邻居

Sister made me husband she was older so I did her bidding 姐姐让我的丈夫，她年纪大了，所以我使出浑身招投标

I remember once their dad came in said, “You think this is bad? 我记得有一次自己的父亲走了进来说：“你觉得这是不好的？

You don’t know the half.” And he laughed. 你不知道的一半。 “他笑了起来。

   

It’s funny what things come back 这很有趣，什么东西回来

The first things you see 你看到的第一件事情

   

How he sort of smiled like it’s only a joke but he was lying 排序如何，他笑了，喜欢它的只是一个笑话，但他在说谎

There was something else inside of his eyes 还有别的东西，他的眼睛里

All those secrets people tell to little children 所有这些秘密的人告诉给小孩子

Are warnings that they give them 是他们给他们警告

Like, “Look, I’m unhappy. Please don’t make the same mistake as me.” 如， “你看，我不开心。请不要犯同样的错误，因为我“ 。

   

Why are those old worn out jokes on married life told at toasts at receptions still? 为什么在婚姻生活中的那些老破旧的笑话说，在祝酒词在宴会还是？

How does it never occur how often couples get burned and end uncertain in Splitsville? 它是如何永远不会发生的频率夫妇引火烧身，并在Splitsville最终确定？

   

Funny what you think of in the wreckage, lying there in the dirt and the dust and the glass 搞笑，你觉得在残骸中的污物和灰尘的玻璃躺在那里什么

How you’re suddenly somewhere, in the desert, in the nighttime, and it’s getting close to Christmas 怎么你突然在某处，在沙漠中，在夜间，而且越来越接近圣诞

And then her and that movie voice she uses when she reads, 然后她和那部电影的声音在她读她使用，

“Welcome to the Land of Enchantment” from a highway sign 从公路标志“欢迎来到结界之地”

And it’s late so you take the next exit 它让你把下一个出口是晚

   

When that trip ended we came back the rent was due I was jobless 当这一趟落幕，我们回来的租金，是因为我失业

I guess in retrospect I should’ve sensed decay 我想在回想起来，我应该已经检测到的衰变

Then that day, how you said, “I just don’t know” and I promised 然后那一天，你是怎么说的， “我只是不知道” ，我答应

We’d rearrange things to fix the mess I’d made here 我们会重新安排事情来解决我已经在这里的烂摊子

   

But I guess in the end we just moved furniture around 3X 但我想最终我们刚搬进家具的3倍左右

   

But I guess in the end it sort of feels like every day it’s harder to stay happy where you are 但我想在那种感觉就像每天它很难在年底前保持快乐你在哪里

There are all these ways to look through the fence into your neighbor’s yard 有这些方面看，通过围栏到邻居的院子

Why even risk it? It’s safer to stay distant 为什么还要冒这个险？它的安全停留遥远

When it’s so hard now to just be content 当它是如此难以现在只是内容

Because there’s always something else 因为总有别的东西

   

Now I’m proposing my own toast, composing my own joke for those married men 现在我提出我自己的烤面包，撰写自己的笑话那些已婚男人

Maybe I’m miserable, I’d rather run for mayor in Splitsville than suffer your jokes again 也许我惨了，我宁愿为市长Splitsville跑得比再次遭受你的笑话