Well they finally put that red light up in the heart of town 那么，他们终于把那件红色的光在小镇的心脏

Took the stop sign down, it was shot up anyhow 把站牌下，有人出手了，无论如何

One night I ran right through it, in my Chevrolet 一天晚上，我跑的权利，通过它，在我的雪佛兰

Both police cars came, but I got away 无论是警车来了，但我跑了

   

It was a boom town back in ‘62 这是一个新兴城市早在62

Till the coal ran out and the drought came though 截至煤跑了出去，干旱来了，虽然

And they dammed the river that we all use to fish 他们拦住了大家都用鱼河

Population 405 and I made it 404 one night 人口405我和它404一晚

Left the city limit sign laying in the ditch 离开了城市限速标志铺设在沟

Run plum over it 润梅在它

Leaving Metropolis 离开大都市

   

Well I found myself in a big high rise with a concrete yard 嗯，我发现自己在一个大的高层有一个具体的院子

Ain’t safe after dark, guess this old boy drove too far 是不是在天黑后的安全，猜测这个老男孩开车太远

Met a girl, fell in love, got married and she’s due in May 遇到一个女孩，相恋，结婚，她五月的原因

Says we’re gonna need more space, I said I know just the place 说我们会需要更多的空间，我说我只知道这个地方

Where we can walk down to the country store and we won’t even have to lock our door 在这里我们可以步行到国储，我们甚至不会有锁我们的门

And we can still get air and water there for free 我们仍然可以得到空气和水在那里免费

She said, “That sounds good to me.” 她说， “这听起来很不错。 ”

   

It was a boom town back in ‘62 这是一个新兴城市早在62

Till the coal ran out and the drought came though 截至煤跑了出去，干旱来了，虽然

And they dammed the river that we all use to fish 他们拦住了大家都用鱼河

Population 404 and when we pull in it’ll be three more 人口404 ，当我们拉这将是三个

And there’s a city limit sign laying in the ditch 还有的城市限速标志铺设在沟

That I need to fix 我需要修复

Back in Metropolis 早在大都市

   

Almost in Metropolis 几乎在都市

Coming up on Metropolis 即将到来的大都市

I’m back in Metropolis 我回到都市