Johnny wanna be a big star 约翰尼想成为大明星

Get on stage and play the guitar 获取在舞台上弹吉他

Make a little money, buy a fancy car 赚小钱，买一辆好车

Big old house and an alligator 大的老房子和一只鳄鱼

Just to match with them alligator shoes 只是为了配合他们的鳄鱼皮鞋

He's a rich man so he's no longer singing the blues 他是一个富有的人，所以他不再唱蓝调

He's singing songs about material things 他唱的是物质的东西歌曲

And platinum rings and watches that go bling 和铂金戒指和发亮的手表

But, diamonds don't bling in the dark 但是，钻石不金光闪闪的黑暗

He a star now, but he ain't singing from the heart 他现在是一个明星，但他并没有从心脏唱

Sooner or later he's just gonna fall apart 迟早他只是会土崩瓦解

Cause his fans can't relate to his new found art 引起他的球迷可以不涉及到他的新发现的艺术

He ain't doing what he did from the start 他没有做什么，他从一开始就做

And that's putting in some feeling and thought 这就是把一些感受和想法

He decided to live his life shallow 他决定让自己活得浅薄

Cash in his love for material 他对物质的爱现金

   

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And its gone... gone... going... 而它的走了......走了......去......

Gone... everything gone... give a damn... 走了......一切都消失了......给一个该死的...

Gone be the birds when they don't want to sing... 走了被众人不想唱鸟...

Gone people... all awkward with their things... gone. 走了的人......所有的尴尬与他们的事情......没有了。

   

You see yourself in the mirror 你看到自己在镜子

And you feel safe cause it looks familiar 你觉得安全因为它看起来很熟悉

But you afraid to open up your soul 但你害怕打开你的心灵

Cause you don't really know, don't really know 因为你真的不知道，真的不知道

Who he is, the person that's deep within 他是谁，对方说是内心深处

Cause you are content with just being the name-brand man 因为你满足于仅仅作为名牌的男人

And you fail to see that its trivial 而你看不到它的细微之

Insignificant, you addicted to material 无意义的，你关注物质

I've seen your kind before 我以前见过你的那种

You're the type that thinks souls is sold in a store 你以为灵魂的类型是在商店出售

Packaged up with incense sticks 打包带香枝

With them vegetarian meals 与他们素食

To you that's righteous 为了你的正义

You're fiction like books 你像书一样死板

You need to go out to life and look 您需要外出的生活，并期待

Cause... what happens when they take your material 因为......什么时候把你的材料会发生

You already sold your soul and its... 你已经出卖了自己的灵魂，它的...

   

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You say that time is money and money is time 你说时间就是金钱，金钱就是时间

So you got mind in your money and your money on your mind 所以，你在你的钱了主意，你的钱在你的头脑

But what about... that crime that you did to get paid 可是你知道...你没得到报酬的犯罪

And what about... that bid, you can't take it to your brain 而关于......的出价，你不能把它怎么你的大脑

What about those shoes you'll wear today 你今天穿什么那些鞋

They'll do no good on the bridges you burnt along the way 他们将没有好处你沿途烧毁桥梁

   

All that money that you got gonna be gone 所有的钱，你有会消失

That gear that you rock gonna be gone 这轮，你将会没有

The house up on the hill gonna be gone 在山上要去的房子了消失

The gold purse on your grill gonna be gone 黄金钱包在你的烧烤会消失

The ice on your wrist gonna be gone 在你的手腕会冰消失

That nice little Miss gonna be gone 这会可爱的小小姐不见了

That whip that you roll gonna be gone 你抽动的鞭子将消失

And what's worst is your soul's already gone 什么是最糟糕的是你的灵魂已经走了

   

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