Wait a moment yet 稍等片刻，但

Have a cigarette 有一个香烟

We can stand out here on the pavement 我们能站出来在这里的路面

   

There's a young man near 有一个年轻男子靠近

With the same idea 有同样的想法

And a half-drunk beer as payment 半醉的啤酒付款

   

But we turn his offer down 但是，我们把他的报价下调

Give him a light and watch him frown 给他一盏灯，看他愁眉苦脸

As he weaves his way back round 当他编织回来的路上轮

Into the crowd 走入人群

   

Many years ago that was us, I know 许多年前，那是我们，我知道

When they said this place was dying 当他们说这个地方病危

But just look now, look all around 可是你看现在，放眼四周

If you squint, you'd swear it was thriving 如果你眯着眼睛，你会发誓这是一枝独秀

   

Now it's we who are in decline 现在，我们谁是在下降

Like the old shipyards and mines 像老船厂和地雷

We outlived a time 我们活得比时间

That's long passed away 这是早就过去了

   

I thought we'd change things 我以为我们会改变一些事情

But we never changed a thing 但是，我们从来没有改变过的事情

We never changed a thing 我们从来没有改变过的事情

   

There's a girl 有一个女孩

There's another 还有另一种

That one looks familiar 一个看起来很熟悉

I think I knew her mother 我想我知道她的母亲

   

Wait a moment yet 稍等片刻，但

Have a cigarette 有一个香烟

They let us stand out here on the pavement 他们让我们站在了这里的人行道

Just look now, look all around 只要看看现在，看看四周

Now that's what I call entertainment 现在这就是我所说的娱乐

   

I thought we'd change things 我以为我们会改变一些事情

But we never changed a thing 但是，我们从来没有改变过的事情

We never changed a thing 我们从来没有改变过的事情