Darkness at the break of noon 黑暗在中午的休息

Shadows even the silver spoon 阴影甚至银匙

The handmade blade, the child's balloon 手工制作的刀片，孩子的气球

Eclipses both the sun and moon 蚀太阳和月亮

To understand you know too soon 要了解你知道得太早

There is no sense in trying. 有没有试图意义。

   

Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn 尖锐的威胁，他们用轻蔑虚张声势

Suicide remarks are torn 自杀的言论被撕裂

From the fools gold mouthpiece 从愚人金喉舌

The hollow horn plays wasted words 空心喇叭播放多余的话

Proved to warn 事实证明，以警告

That he not busy being born 他不忙出生

Is busy dying. 就是忙着死。

   

Temptation's page flies out the door 诱惑的页面飞出了门

You follow, find yourself at war 你跟随，发现自己在战争中

Watch waterfalls of pity roar 看着可怜的轰鸣声瀑布

You feel to moan but unlike before 你觉得呻吟，但不像以前

You discover 你发现

That you'd just be 那你刚才是

One more person crying. 多一个人哭。

   

So don't fear if you hear 如果你听到你不要害怕

A foreign sound to you ear 外国的声音给你的耳朵

It's alright, Ma, I'm only sighing. 这是正常的，麻的，我只能叹息。

   

As some warn victory, some downfall 正如一些警告的胜利，有的倒台

Private reasons great or small 私人的原因大还是小

Can be seen in the eyes of those that call 可以在这些调用的眼睛可以看到

To make all that should be killed to crawl 为了让所有的人都被杀害抓取

While others say don't hate nothing at all 虽然别人都说不恨什么都没有

Except hatred. 除了仇恨。

   

Disillusioned words like bullets bark 看破红尘的话像子弹一样的树皮

As human gods aim for their marks 随着人类的神瞄准他们的标记

Made everything from toy guns that sparks 做一切从玩具枪的火花

To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark 为了肉色基督是在黑暗中发光

It's easy to see without looking too far 人们很容易看到不看太远

That not much 这没有太大的

Is really sacred. 真的是神圣的。

   

While preachers preach of evil fates 当传道人讲道邪恶的命运

Teachers teach that knowledge waits 老师教的知识等待

Can lead to hundred-dollar plates 可导致百元板

Goodness hides behind its gates 善良背后隐藏的门

But even the President of the United States 美国，但即使是总统

Sometimes must have 有时候，必须有

To stand naked. 站在赤裸。

   

An' though the rules of the road have been lodged 一个虽然道路规则已提出

It's only people's games that you got to dodge 那就是你得闪躲只有人的游戏

And it's alright, Ma, I can make it. 而且这是正常的，麻的，我可以做到这一点。

   

Advertising signs that con you 广告招牌是精读你

Into thinking you're the one 以为你是我的唯一

That can do what's never been done 可以做什么的从来没有做过

That can win what's never been won 这可以赢得什么从未赢得

Meantime life outside goes on 同时生活之外的推移

All around you. 所有你周围。

   

You loose yourself, you reappear 你失去了你自己，你再出现

You suddenly find you got nothing to fear 你突然发现你有什么好怕的

Alone you stand without nobody near 你独自站在没有任何人靠近

When a trembling distant voice, unclear 当一个遥远的颤抖声音，不清楚

Startles your sleeping ears to hear 惊动你的睡眠耳朵听

That somebody thinks 有人认为，

They really found you. 他们真的找到了你。

   

A question in your nerves is lit 在你的神经的问题点亮

Yet you know there is no answer fit to satisfy 然而，你知道有没有适合的答案，以满足

Insure you not to quit 确保你不会退出

To keep it in your mind and not forget 为了保持它在你的心中，并没有忘记

That it is not he or she or them or it 这不是他或她或他们，或者它

That you belong to. 那你属于。

   

Although the masters make the rules 虽然主人制定规则

For the wise men and the fools 对于智者和愚者

I got nothing, Ma, to live up to. 我得到了什么，马，辜负。

   

For them that must obey authority 对于他们，必须服从权威

That they do not respect in any degree 他们不会在任何程度的尊重

Who despite their jobs, their destinies 谁，尽管他们的工作，他们的命运

Speak jealously of them that are free 说话小心翼翼的他们，都是免费的

Cultivate their flowers to be 培养他们的花是

Nothing more than something 没有什么比更多的东西

They invest in. 他们投资英寸

   

While some on principles baptized 虽然一些原则上的洗礼

To strict party platforms ties 要严格党的联系平台

Social clubs in drag disguise 在拖动变相社交俱乐部

Outsiders they can freely criticize 外地人，他们可以自由地批评

Tell nothing except who to idolize 告诉没什么，除了向谁崇拜

And then say God Bless him. 然后说上帝保佑他。

   

While one who sings with his tongue on fire 当一个谁与他的舌头着火唱

Gargles in the rat race choir 漱口水在激烈竞争中合唱团

Bent out of shape from society's pliers 从社会的钳子弯曲变形

Cares not to come up any higher 在乎不向任何更高上来

But rather get you down in the hole 而是让你失望的孔

That he's in. 他的研究。

   

But I mean no harm nor put fault 但我的意思是没有害处，也没有放错

On anyone that lives in a vault 对任何人，生活在一个墓穴

But it's alright, Ma, if I can't please him. 不过，这是正常的，麻的，如果我不能取悦他。

   

Old lady judges, watch people in pairs 老太太法官，看人们在对

Limited in sex, they dare 受限于性别，他们敢

To push fake morals, insult and stare 推假道德，侮辱和盯

While money doesn't talk, it swears 虽然钱不说话，它发誓

Obscenity, who really cares 淫秽，谁真正关心

Propaganda, all is phony. 宣传，一切都是假的。

   

While them that defend what they cannot see 虽然他们捍卫他们不能看到什么

With a killer's pride, security 一个杀手的骄傲，安全

It blows the minds most bitterly 它吹心目中最激烈的

For them that think death's honesty 对于他们，想死的诚信

Won't fall upon them naturally 在他们身上不会掉落自然

Life sometimes 生活有时

Must get lonely. 必须让寂寞。

   

My eyes collide head-on with stuffed graveyards 我的眼睛迎头相撞酿墓地

False gods, I scuff 假神，我擦伤

At pettiness which plays so rough 在鸡毛蒜皮的小事起着很粗糙

Walk upside-down inside handcuffs 里面走去手铐倒

Kick my legs to crash it off 踢我的腿崩溃而过

Say okay, I have had enough 说好了，我已经受够了

What else can you show me ? 还有什么可以告诉我？

   

And if my thought-dreams could been seen 如果我的想法，梦想可以被看作

They'd probably put my head in a guillotine 他们很可能把我的头在断头台

But it's alright, Ma, it's life, and life only. 不过，这是正常的，麻，这就是生活，生活而已。