There are stories in the soil, loose leaves cover the ground 有在土壤中的故事，松散的叶子覆盖地面

There's volumes in the forest, no one reads out loud 有一个在森林中卷，没有人读出声

If I could take them down off of that mountain shelf 如果我可以取下来了那山架

We used to climb but no one tries to go up that far now yeah 我们用爬，但没有人试图去了那么远，现在耶

   

We're all too busy working, entertaining ourselves 我们都忙于工作，娱乐自己

Forty hours television and prescription pills 四十个小时的电视和处方药

Well I take two a day to make my brain behave 嗯，我需要两，每天让我的大脑行为

It never does but who's to say at least my doctor gets paid 它从来不会，但谁又能说，至少我的医生得到支付

   

So that's fine, yeah come by we'll take the afternoon off 所以，这很好，是的，我们将采取下午请假来了

We can kiss and undress or if you want just talk 我们可以亲吻和脱衣服，或者如果你想只是说说而已

Cause I've got nothing real, just empty space to fill 因为我已经没有什么真实的，只是空的空间，以填补

And you're my girl I like your style just imagine all the time we could kill 而你是我的女孩，我喜欢你的风格想像所有我们能打发时间

   

And time's not poison but once you drink it all you'll die 时间不是毒药，但一旦你喝你会死

So let's just sip it real slow 所以我们只抿了真慢

Yeah we can nurse it all night 是的，我们可以整夜喂养它

Try to believe that once it's gone 试着去相信，一旦它不见了

We'll pour another round and come back to life 我们将倾另一轮和起死回生

Come right back 来到右后卫

   

I guess I'm moving faster now or that's what they said 我想我移动速度现在还是这就是他们说

And though some days still take forever I can't disagree 虽然有些日子还需要我永远也不会反对

Because it seems to me that I wake up and sleep 因为在我看来，我每天早上起来和睡觉

Look in the mirror have no idea what happened in between 照照镜子不知道发生了什么事之间

   

But I remember counting days down 'til the year could be done 不过，我记得天计算下来，直到今年可以这样做

So I could scatter all my notebooks on the prep school lawn 这样我就可以分散我的所有笔记本电脑上的预科学校的草坪

And disappear again into a summer's bliss 然后再次消失在一个夏天的幸福

Of staying out sleeping in and getting drunk with my friends 的，在外面睡在和醉酒与我的朋友

   

That's gone and I know that it won't ever come back 这是走了，我知道，它永远不会再回来

I accept I won't cling to what I had in the past 我接受，我不会执着于我在过去

But life's a slippery slope, regret's the steepest hill 但生活是一个光滑的斜坡，遗憾的是最陡的山坡

Hope for the best, plan for the worst and maybe wind up somewhere 抱最好的希望，最坏的打算，也许风的地方

In the middle 在中间

   

And I'm not saying that I know what I want 我并不是说，我知道我想要什么

But I know what I don't, don't want to rot in my room 但我知道我不这样做，不希望在我的房间去腐

And never know what could have been 而且从来不知道什么可能是

Believe what everyone else tells me is true 相信每个人都告诉我是真的

Yeah, they say 'true' 是啊，他们说真

That's what they say 这就是他们说的