Now I could sit here and baffle you 现在，我可以坐在这里和你挡板

With shallow babble 浅呀呀

And a bunch of punch lines 和一帮妙语

You probably won't get 你可能不会得到

Or even use some big words 甚至用一些大词

That you'd have to look up 你不得不仰视

But, I'm not a teacher 不过，我不是老师

So go ahead and close your book up 所以，尽管关闭你的书了

I could tell a fairy tale so convincing 我可以讲一个童话故事很有说服力

And keep a straight face from beginning 并保持始终板着脸

To happy ending 以大团圆结局

I could waste 32 bars telling you how to live 我浪费了32条，告诉你如何生活

Knowing damn well I used mtv cribs for the blueprint 知道该死的我用MTV婴儿床的蓝图

I could bore you to death with my past relationships 我可以用我的过去关系，孔死你

Or a little ditty bout Jack and Dianne 还是有点小曲回合杰克与黛安

Or I could go back to childhood 或者，我可以回到童年

Dig up them skeletons 挖出他们的骨骼

And spit them at you with a catchy hook 和他们吐在你一个琅琅上口的钩

Look, I could strike a nerve with some four letter words 你看，我可以用一些四个字母的单词罢工神经

That'll make Richard Pryor proud 这会让理查德·普赖尔骄傲

Or better yet, I could sing a jingle that'll contort and mingle 或者更好的是，我可以唱顺口溜那会扭曲和交融

Every single solitary letter in the alphabet 字母表中的每一个孤独的信

   

(I could tell you whatever you want to hear （我可以告诉你任何你想听到的

But if I just said hello would you listen to me? 但如果我只是说你好，你会听我的话？

I could sell a blind man new ears 我可以卖一个瞎子新耳朵

If I just said hello would you listen to me? 如果我说你好，你会听我的话？

I'm trying hard trying to make it perfectly clear 我努力试图使它非常清楚

But I'm dying because their aint nobody listening to me 不过，我要死了，因为他们的AINT没有人听我说

Been relying on myself on myself for more than 22 years 一直靠自己的真本事了超过22年

And I aint crying I just need someone to listen to me 我是不是哭了，我只需要一个人来听我的

Can I get some reply get maybe some kind of sign 我可以得到一些回应可能得到某种迹象

to let me know that you're listening to me? 让我知道你在听我说话？

Just from time to time I get lost in my mind 刚刚从我不时迷失在我的脑海

Its hard to find someone to listen to me 它很难找到人来听我的

My ears were open when you needed some consoling 当你需要一些安慰我的耳朵是开放的

I'm hoping till the sound you hear echoes 我希望，直到你听到回声的声音

Every time I say hello) 每次我打个招呼）

   

I could talk about my duds 我可以说说我的哑弹

And my thrift store scores 我的旧货店的分数

But that probably wouldn't interest you 但是，这可能会不感兴趣

But why should it 但何必呢

I mean, I've seen a lot of shit in 22 years 我的意思是，我22年来见过很多狗屎

But your feet in my shoes isn't something I recall 但是，你的脚在我的鞋，这并不是我记得

And I've been known to drink 22 beers 我已经知道喝啤酒22

Before a show cuz 前一个节目的Cuz

otherwise I probably wouldn't have the balls 否则，我可能不会有球

I could make references to books I never read 我可以做参考的书我从来不读

For the sake of sounding conscious 为了冠冕堂皇的自觉

But, that's just obnoxious 不过，这只是厌恶

I could take off these bandages and 我可以脱掉这些绷带和

Expose these papercuts 公开这些剪纸

And put them in the air 并把它们在空中

with both my middle fingers up 我的两个中指向上

or talk about myself in third person 还是说说我自己的第三人

like I'm better than you 像我比你更好

cuz there's nothing else better to do 的Cuz没有什么别的好做

I could attack your character from 我可以从攻击你的性格

Eighty different angles 八十不同的角度

Cleverly explaining exactly how wack you are 巧妙地解释究竟是如何怪人你

But why do that when it's a well known fact 但是，为什么这样做时，它是一个众所周知的事实

you buying this cd is potentially feeding me 你买这个CD是潜在喂我

(come on) （来吧）

   

(I could tell you whatever you want to hear （我可以告诉你任何你想听到的

But if I just said hello would you listen to me? 但如果我只是说你好，你会听我的话？

I could sell a blind man new ears 我可以卖一个瞎子新耳朵

If I just said hello would you listen to me? 如果我说你好，你会听我的话？

I'm trying hard trying to make it perfectly clear 我努力试图使它非常清楚

But I'm dying because their aint nobody listening to me 不过，我要死了，因为他们的AINT没有人听我说

Been relying on myself on myself for more than 22 years 一直靠自己的真本事了超过22年

And I aint crying I just need someone to listen to me 我是不是哭了，我只需要一个人来听我的

Can I get some reply get maybe some kind of sign 我可以得到一些回应可能得到某种迹象

to let me know that you're listening to me? 让我知道你在听我说话？

Just from time to time I get lost in my mind 刚刚从我不时迷失在我的脑海

Its hard to find someone to listen to me 它很难找到人来听我的

My ears were open when you needed some consoling 当你需要一些安慰我的耳朵是开放的

I'm hoping till the sound you hear echoes 我希望，直到你听到回声的声音

Every time I say hello) 每次我打个招呼）

   

Hello, is there anybody out there? 你好，有没有人在那里？

Hello, is there anybody out there? 你好，有没有人在那里？

Hello, is there anybody out there? 你好，有没有人在那里？

Hello, is there anybody out there? 你好，有没有人在那里？

Hello, is there anybody out there? 你好，有没有人在那里？