Do you remember my sister? 你还记得我妹妹？

How many mistakes did she make 有多少错误没有她做

With those never blinking eyes? 与那些从不眨眼？

I couldn't work it out 我不能工作了

   

I swear she could read your mind 我发誓，她能读懂你的心

Your life, the depths of your soul at one glance 你的生活，你的灵魂深处在一个网页中

Maybe she was stripping herself away, saying 也许她被剥离自己走，说

   

Here I am, this is me 我在这里，这是我

I am yours and everything about me 我是你和我的一切

Everything you see if only you look hard enough 你看到的一切，只要你看够硬

I never could 我从来就不会

   

Our life was a pillow fight 我们的生活是一个枕头大战

We'd stand there on the quilt 我们会站在那里的被子

Our hands clenched ready 我们的双手握紧准备

Her with her milky teeth 她与她的乳白色的牙齿

   

So late for her age 这么晚了她的年龄

And a Stanley knife in her hand 而在她的手斯坦利刀

She sliced the tires on my bike 她切的轮胎上我的自行车

And I couldn't forgive her 我不能原谅她

   

She went blind at the age of five 她去盲人五岁

We'd stand at the bedroom window 我们会站在卧室的窗户

And she'd get me to tell her what I saw 她会帮我告诉她我所看到的

I'd describe the houses opposite 我会形容对面的房子

The little patch of grass next to the path 草旁边的路径的小补丁

   

The gate with its rotten hinges forever wedged 其烂铰链的门永远楔形

Open that Dad was always going to fix 打开爸爸总是会解决

She'd stand there quiet for a moment 她站在那里，沉默了片刻

I thought she was trying to develop 我以为她试图开发

The images in her own head, then she'd say 在她自己的头的影像，然后她会说

   

I can see little twinkly stars 我能看到一点闪亮的星星

Like Christmas Tree lights in faraway windows 像圣诞树灯在遥远的窗户

Rings of brightly colored rocks 颜色鲜艳的岩石圈

Floating around orange and mustard planets 周围的橙色和芥末漂浮的行星

   

I can see huge tiger striped fishes 我可以看到巨虎的条纹鱼

Chasing tiny blue and yellow dashes 追逐微小的蓝色和黄色虚线

All tails and fins and bubbles 所有的尾巴和鳍和气泡

I'd look at the gray house opposite and close the curtains 我看着对面的房子灰色和关闭窗帘

   

She burned down the house when she was ten 她被烧毁的房子时，她是10

I was away camping with the scouts 身在外地的侦察员露营

The fireman said she'd been smoking in bed 消防员说，她一直在床上吸烟

The old story, I thought 古老的故事，我想

   

The cat and our mum died in the flames 猫和我们的母亲葬身火海

So Dad took us to stay with our Aunt in the country 所以，爸爸带我们留在我们的国家大妈

He went back to London to find us a new house 他回到伦敦找到我们的新房子

We never saw him again 我们从来没有见过他了

   

On her thirteenth birthday she fell down 在她13岁的生日，她跌下来

The well in our Aunt's garden and broke her head 在我们的阿姨的花园井，并打破了她的头

She'd been drinking heavily on her recovery her sight 她一直大量饮酒对她恢复她的视线

Returned a fluke of nature everyone said 回到自然每个人的侥幸说

   

That's when she said she'd never blink again 当她说她再也不会闪烁这

I would tell her when she started at me 我会告诉她时，她开始在我

With her eyes wide and watery that they reminded 随着她的眼睛瞪得和水样，他们提醒

Me of the well she fell into, she liked this, it made her laugh 我很好，她陷入了，她很喜欢这一点，这让她笑

   

She moved in with a gym teacher 她搬进了体育老师

When she was fifteen all muscles he was 当她15所有的肌肉，他

He lost his job when it all came out 他失去了他的工作时，都出来

And couldn't get another one 并不能得到一个又一个

   

Not in that kind of small town 不是那种小城镇

Everybody knew everyone else's business 每个人都知道其他人的生意

My sister would hold her head high, though 我姐姐将举行她的头高，但

She said she was in love 她说她在爱情

   

They were together for five years 他们在一起五年

Until one day he lost his temper 直到有一天，他失去了他的脾气

He hit her over the back of the neck with his bull-worker 他打了她在脖子后面与他的公牛工

She lost the use of the right side of her body 她失去了使用右侧她的身体的

   

He got three years and was out in fifteen months 他得到了三年，是在15个月

We saw him a while later, he was coaching 我们看见他了一会儿后，他被教练

A non-league football team in a Cornwall seaside town 非联赛足球队在康沃尔郡海滨小镇

I don't think he recognized her 我不认为他认出了她

   

My sister had put on a lot of weight 我妹妹穿了很多的重量

From being in a chair all the time 从在椅子上是所有的时间

She'd get me to stick pins 她让我坚持销

And stub out cigarettes in her right hand 和存根出香烟在她的右手

   

She'd laugh like mad because it didn't hurt 她笑起来就像疯了，因为它没有伤害

Her left hand was pretty good though 她的左手还不错，虽然

We'd have arm wrestling matches 我们想用手臂摔跤比赛

I'd have to use both arms and she'd still beat me 我不得不用双手，她还是会打我

   

We buried her when she was 32, me and my Aunt 我们把她葬在她32 ，我和我的阿姨

The vicar and the man who dug the hole 牧师，谁挖的洞的人

She said she didn't want to be cremated and wanted 她说，她不希望被火化，并希望

A cheap coffin so the worms could get to her quickly 一个廉价的棺材使蠕虫能得到她迅速

She said she liked the idea of it, though I thought it was 她说她很喜欢它的想法，但我认为这是

Because of what happened to the cat and our mum 因为发生了什么事，猫和我们的妈妈