There's a purple heart on the stars and stripes tonight 有一个紫色的心脏上的星条旗今晚

It's pinned to the chest of the latest liar 它寄托到最新骗子的胸部

And if you try to speak your mind 如果你试图表达自己的思想

They tell you keep it to yourself 他们告诉你把它给自己

You’ve got friends in the armed forces 你在部队得到了朋友

They want to know which side you're on 他们想知道你是哪一方

Doesn't matter cause we’re all being used 不要紧，因为我们都在被使用

   

To train, to fight 为了训练，打

Disregard all human rights 不顾一切人权

To play the part 要发挥的作用

The conscience of the damned 该死的良心

You say you're defending me 你说你是我的防守

I'm sick of tying yellow ribbons 我讨厌绑黄丝带

Praying not to see 祈祷不要看

   

Another folded flag to a mourning mother 另一种折叠旗哀悼母亲

He was an army of one but they'll find another 他是一个军队，但他们会找到另一个

And in the fold of the body bag 而在尸袋折

She’ll find a check for a hundred grand 她会找到一百个大检查

She’s got friends in the armed forces 她有朋友在部队

Now we know what a soldier costs 现在我们知道什么是军人的费用

What’s the cost of the rest of us 什么是我们其余的费用

   

To take a life 举一个生活

We all have our price 我们都有自己的价格

The wife and kids sleep soundly in their beds 老婆孩子熟睡在床上

You say you're defending me 你说你是我的防守

I'm out tying yellow ribbons 我走了绑黄丝带

On every single tree 在每一个树

   

I’ve seen them float like butterflies back home 我看过他们漂浮像蝴蝶回家

I can feel the desert's heat 我能感觉到沙漠的热

When you're standing next to me 当你站在我旁边

Our friendship offers no relief 我们的友谊没有提供救援

Stay with me now, just hear me out 留在我身边，现在，只要听我说

Don't want to lose you to that great black cloud 不想失去你这个伟大的乌云

Coming down 下来

You’ve seen in the path a bullet makes 你已经看到了一颗子弹，使路径

When it calls you by your name 当你调用了你的名字

And the medic can't play the rhythm of your heart 而医疗兵不能发挥你的心脏的节奏

So it starts to fade like footsteps in the march as the parade passes by. 因此，它开始褪色像在行军的脚步为游行经过的。

   

   

The ticker-tape will rise like sparks when we’re born 该纸带将上升火花一样，当我们出生

To change our minds 要改变我们的想法

Everything that's wrong looks right 一切是错误的期待权

The lives we lead 我们过的生活

Are somewhere in between 是介于两者之间

   

   

March: Left, Right, Left 3月：左，右，左

You say you're defending me 你说你是我的防守

I'm sick of tying yellow ribbons 我讨厌绑黄丝带

Praying not to see 祈祷不要看

Now sing it 现在唱吧

We’re not going to hell 我们不会下地狱

To run rings around a wishing well 奔波许愿井环