Live at Five and CNN 住在五和CNN

keep us all abreast 让我们大家都了解

of breaking stories that can tend 分手的故事，往往能对

to make us anxious and depressed. 让我们焦虑和沮丧。

Problems with no answers 没有答案的问题

hang on like some chronic cough. 挂像一些慢性咳嗽。

And every day some brand new issue 每天一些全新的问题

rears it's head to piss you off. 抚养它的头，你赶走。

   

Bad guys win. 坏人获胜。

Optimism's wearing thin. 乐观的穿着单薄。

Things are spinning out of control. 事情失去控制。

Cynicism's all the fad. 犬儒主义的所有的时尚。

World events could make us mad 世界事件可以让我们疯狂

as hatters. 作为帽商。

Almost every day 几乎每一天

some underpinning slips away. 一些支柱溜走。

These aren't laughing matters. 这些都没有笑的问题。

   

Time bombs tick. 定时炸弹滴答。

People keep on getting sick. 人们不断生病。

And a nickel's not worth a cent. 而镍是不值得一毛钱。

Wickedness and greed abound. 邪恶和贪婪比比皆是。

Just as peace is gaining ground 正如和平取得进展

it shatters. 它打碎。

Hate is here to stay, 最讨厌的就是在这里留下来，

and justice goes to those who pay. 正义去那些谁支付。

Friend, these aren't laughing matters. 朋友，这些都没有笑的问题。

   

The truth is scarier by far 事实是，迄今为止可怕

than anything that Stephen King could write. 比任何斯蒂芬·金可以写。

The stories in the paper are 在本文的故事

the daily small decline and fall 日常小衰亡

spelled out in black and white. 在黑色和白色的阐述。

   

Oh, what to do, what to do? 呵呵，做什么，怎么做？

how to take a brighter view 如何采取更美好的观点

when your noodle's totally fried. 当你的面的完全炸。

Human spirits need to be 人的精神需要是

leavened by a little levity. 受了一点轻率发酵。

So take those blues 所以，把这些蓝调

and bounce them off the wall. 和弹跳他们在墙上。

Keep your humor please, 保持你的幽默感请，

'cause don't you know it times like these that 因为你不知道它喜欢这些时候，

laughing matters most of all. 笑最重要的事情。