do you know the cost of future misery? 你知道未来的苦难的费用是多少？

have you lost your sense of sustainability? 你失去了你的可持续发展意义吗？

we are just a step away 我们只是一步之遥

from realizing what we strive to be 从实现我们努力做

but we've got to break out 但我们必须打破

from this insulated blind and lame senility 从这个绝缘盲人和瘸腿的衰老

wake up the new america 唤醒新美国

wo-oh! WO -OH ！

transcend the mass hysteria 超越集体歇斯底里

wo-oh! WO -OH ！

change is the thing you're wary of 变化是你担心的事

wo-oh! WO -OH ！

we need a new america 我们需要一个新的美国

wo-oh! WO -OH ！

laurels, human triumph, 吃老本，人类胜利，

bestowments from the past 从过去施舍

victories don't mean a thing 胜利并不意味着一件事情

if they don't last 如果他们不持续

we are just marching toward extinction 我们只是走向消亡游行

with blinders on our eyes 对我们的眼睛眼罩

jeopardizing everything 一切危害

we've learned and come to realize 我们的经验和体会到

you call that wise? 你叫这明智吗？

open your eyes america 睁开你的眼睛美

wo-oh! WO -OH ！

see through the lies they tell to us 识破他们告诉我们的谎言

wo-oh! WO -OH ！

confront the fears that worry us 面对这令我们担忧的恐惧

wo-oh! WO -OH ！

we need a new america 我们需要一个新的美国

wo-oh! WO -OH ！

we don't have to be afraid to re-invent 我们不必害怕重新发明

we've got to start to build, 我们必须开始建立，

progress, and implement 进步，并实施

for when we take our fill, 因为当我们把我们的填充，

and never pay the price 从不付出代价

we only build ourselves a fleeting, 我们只建立自己转瞬即逝，

false paradise 虚假的天堂

you can live in staunch denial 你可以住在坚定的拒绝

and mark me as your enemy 并标记我作为你的敌人

but I'm just a voice among the throng 但我只是在人群中一个声音

who want a brighter destiny 谁希望有一个光明的命运

they say with me 他们跟我说，

we are the new america 我们是新美国

wo-oh! WO -OH ！

this is the new america? 这是新美国吗？

wo-oh WO -OH