The hour is out of joint 时间不脱了节

Black sun has risen 黑太阳已经升

And the river of words 与说话的河流

Is flowing on through 通过对流动

The cages of tradition 传统的笼

They're handing out emptiness 他们发放的空虚

We'll take it, cos it's given 我们接受了，因为这一切的考虑

Free with this plastic innocence 免费用这种塑料清白

And these standards of living 和生活的这些标准

   

Questions, lighted questions 问题，燃点问题

Burnin' holes into my head 燃尽的小孔进入我的头

Hanging like shadows o'er the sun 挂状阴影，把你的太阳

Staring out like the eyes of the dead 凝视着像死者的眼睛

And sometimes my soul flickers 有时我的灵魂闪烁

As the wind of change blows cold 作为变革之风劲吹冷

Over the mire of repetition 在重复的泥潭

Down the corridors of rigmarole 胡言乱语下来的走廊

   

What I say, what I think 我说什么，我的想法

What I put down in ink 我在墨放下

I'm only tryin' to find a way to understand 我只是试着找到一种方式来理解

And I mean no harm 我的意思是没有害处

I'm just searching for calm 我只是在寻找平静

In the storm of mankind 在人类的风暴

   

Do you find it there 你觉得它有

In the sea of faces 在人海

That drowns you every day 那淹没你每天

Or in the silence and rubble and empty spaces 还是在沉默和瓦砾和空格

Where children and rottweilers play 儿童和罗威纳犬玩

Is it buried in the praise 它是埋在赞美

Given so cheap 既然这么便宜

With a meaningless movement of the jaws 与夹爪的一个无意义的动作

In the looking glass 在镜子

That flatters you 奉承你

Or in the rattle of hollow applause 或者空心的掌声拨浪鼓

   

Blind circle, moon and sun 盲圈，月亮和太阳

Body willing, mind undone 体愿意，心中撤消

One pain ending while another begins 一个人的痛苦结束而另一个开始

Lies, ruin, disease 谎言，破产，疾病

Into wounds like these 进入伤口像这样的

Let the truth sting 让真相刺痛

   

From the hub to the limit 从轮毂到极限

Through the urban hollows 通过对城市洼地

Out into the poles of the extreme 出到了极点的极

To echo through the numbness 呼应通过麻木

Of these godless minutes 这些不信神分钟

In the shadow of delusion's regime 在妄想政权的影子

   

But here watching the night 但在这里，看着夜色

As it opens like a flower 因为它打开像一朵花

And the day starts to rust 而那一天开始生锈

Feeling time pound 感觉时间英镑

Like a silent hammer 就像一个无声的锤子

On this empire of dust 在这个帝国的尘埃

And I'm thinking about the bullet 而我想着子弹

And the TV screen, the dollar, and the clenched fist 和电视屏幕上，美元和紧握的拳头

And if we're searching for peace 如果我们正在寻找和平

How come we still believe 为什么我们仍然相信

In hatred as the catalyst 在仇恨的催化剂

   

Through the borderline 通过边界

In front and behind 在前面和后面

Down the road of thorns 倒荆棘之路

Between the barbwire and the soul 该倒钩铁丝和灵魂之间

Bitters and chains 苦味和链条

Is all that remains 只是剩下的

Where the wheel has rolled 当车轮已经推出

   

I feel it from the pit of my stomach 我觉得从我的心窝

Into the ditch of my mind 在我心灵深处的沟

Inside the chambers of my heart 里面的我的心脏腔

As I stare half blind 当我凝视半瞎

At these walls of cardboard 在纸板的这些墙

At this space that I've rented 在这个空间，我已经租

At your beauty that is crumbling 为你的美丽是摇摇欲坠

Though you try so hard to prevent it 虽然你着急，以防止它

   

On and on 论和

Body willing, mind undone 体愿意，心中撤消

One pain ending while another begins 一个人的痛苦结束而另一个开始

Lies, ruin, disease 谎言，破产，疾病

Into wounds like these 进入伤口像这样的

Let the truth sting 让真相刺痛

Let the truth sting 让真相刺痛

Let the truth sting 让真相刺痛