Well I can't sleep with all these hand-me-downs 好吧，我不能用这些手，我睡起伏

Battered up chests and faded dreams 殴打了胸部和褪色的梦想

Every new life seems to spin away 每一个新的生命正在慢慢地离开旋转

Like sand escaping through the seams 像沙子通过接缝逃逸

Send me a letter from Omaha 给我发了一封来自奥马哈

Said a needle or thread could mend the tears 说针或线程可以修补的眼泪

But tonight the cotton fields, they 但今晚的棉田，他们

Smell like calico 闻起来像印花布

And the color of your hair 你的头发的颜色

   

Stars stand against the lonely blue 明星对抗孤独的蓝

Like pin-pricks made by midnight hands 像针刺午夜人手所造

They tried to sew you a pure white dress 他们试图缝你一个纯白色的礼服

Got tied up in the misdeeds and demands 得了捆绑在不良行为和要求

   

Cotton burned all brown and wasted 棉花烧毁所有的褐色和浪费

Like an innocence fell to disrepair 像一个纯真下跌年久失修

   

But tonight the ashes, they 但今晚的骨灰，他们

Smell like calico 闻起来像印花布

And the color of your hair 你的头发的颜色

   

If I could have my one and only wish 如果我能有我唯一的心愿

I'd sew your hair all to the lining of my shirt 我缝你的头发都到我的衬衫的衬里

I'd stand in the noon day clean and golden 我站在正午的清洁和金

Not the color of the dry land dirt 的旱地污垢没有颜色

   

Send me a letter from Omaha 给我发了一封来自奥马哈

Said a needle or thread could mend the tears 说针或线程可以修补的眼泪

But tonight the sugarcane, it 但今晚的甘蔗，它

Smells like calico 闻起来像印花布

And the color of your hair 你的头发的颜色