While we're on the subject 虽然我们对这个问题

Could we change the subject now? 难道我们现在换个话题？

I was knocking on your ear's door but you were always out 我敲你的耳朵的大门，但你总是出

Looking towards the future 展望未来

We were begging for the past 我们被乞讨的过去

Well we knew we had the good things 嗯，我们知道我们有好东西

But those never seemed to last 但这些似乎从来没有到最后

Oh please just last 哦，请大家持续

   

Everyone's unhappy 每个人的不快乐

Everyone's ashamed 每个人的羞耻

Well we all just got caught looking 嗯，我们都只是被抓住了看

At somebody else's page 在别人的页面

Well nothing ever went 好什么事也没去

Quite exactly as we planned 很确切，因为我们计划

Our ideas held no water 我们的想法站不住脚

But we used them like a dam 我们用它们就像一个水坝

   

Oh, and we carried it all so well 哦，我们把它都这么好

As if we got a new position 就好像我们得到了一个新的位置

Oh, and I laugh all the way to hell 呵呵，我笑一路到地狱

Saying yes, this is a fine promotion 他说是的，这是一个很好的推广

Oh, and I laugh all the way to hell 呵呵，我笑一路到地狱

   

Of course everyone goes crazy 当然，每个人都疯了

Over such and such and such 在这样或这样或那样的

We made ourselves a pillar 我们做了自己的支柱

We just used it as a crutch 我们只是用它作为拐杖

We were certainly uncertain 我们一定不确定性

At least I'm pretty sure I am 至少我敢肯定我

Well we didn't need the water 嗯，我们并不需要水

But we just built that good God dam 但是，我们刚刚建立了良好的神坝

   

Oh, and I know this of myself 哦，我知道这对我自己

I assume as much for other people 我想尽可能多的其他人

Oh, and I know this of myself 哦，我知道这对我自己

We've listened more to life's end gong 我们已经听取更多的生命的结束锣

Than the sound of life's sweet bliss 比生活中的甜蜜幸福的声音

   

Was it ever worth it? 是不是永远值得吗？

Was there all that much to gain? 在那里所有的东西来获得？

Well we knew we missed the boat 嗯，我们知道我们错失了良机

And we'd already missed the plane 我们早就错过了飞机

We didn't read the invite 我们没看过的邀请

We just dance at our wake 我们只是跳舞在我们唤醒

All our favorites were playing 我们所有的收藏玩

So we could shake, shake, shake, shake, shake 这样我们就可以摇一摇，摇，摇，摇，摇

   

Tiny curtains open and we heard the tiny clap of little hands 微小的窗帘打开，我们听到了小手的小拍

A tiny man would tell a little joke and get a tiny laugh from all the folks 一个微小的男人会说一个小笑话，从所有的人得到一个微小的笑

Sitting drifting around in bubbles and thinking it was us that carried them 坐在泡泡四处飘散，并认为它是我们，他们携带

When we finally got it figured out that we had truly missed the boat 当我们终于想通了，我们就真的错过了船

   

Oh, and we carried it all so well 哦，我们把它都这么好

As if we got a new position 就好像我们得到了一个新的位置

Oh, and we owned all the tools ourselves 哦，我们拥有所有的工具自己

But not the skills to make a shelf with 但没有技能，使同一个架子

Oh, what useless tools ourselves 哦，什么没用自己的工具