When reason dies behind closed doors 当死亡的原因闭门造车

Face down in a cell in a pool of piss 面向下一个单元格中小便池

It's time to fear what we should respect 现在是时候应该担心的问题，我们应该尊重

It's time to question cause and effect 现在是时候质疑因果

Striking with impunity 毫无顾忌惊人

Hiding behind flags of immunity 躲在免疫标志

   

When corruption rears its ugly head 当腐败抚养它丑恶的头

The force of law becomes a farce 法律的力量变成一场闹剧

Personal ambition usurps justice 个人野心篡夺司法

The rich protected at the expense of the poor 富人在穷人为代价保护

Would you sit on the fence, take no chance? 你骑墙，不采取任何机会吗？

As those batons fall, turn a blind eye 由于这些警棍下跌，视而不见

   

In an ideal world 在一个理想的世界

There'd be no need for law 这里会是没有必要的法律

No need for police 无需警察

But in a society so sick 但是，在这样的社会病态

So obsessed with blind greed 如此痴迷盲目贪

Someone has to protect 有人要保护

The old and the weak 对年老体弱

   

Officer down 官降

   

Can we really afford to be so selectively blind? 我们真的能买得起这样选择性失明？

If we dig too deep what would we find? 如果我们挖得太深了，我们会发现？

At authority's heart beats a dollar sign 在权威的心脏跳动一个美元符号

Under such a regime we're all doing time 在这样的制度，我们都在做的时候

Striking with impunity 毫无顾忌惊人

Hiding behind flags of immunity 躲在免疫标志

   

Never say, you weren't warned 千万不要说，你没有警告

When they come to drag you away 当他们来拖你走

To silence the dissident hiding in us all 压制持不同政见者藏匿在我们所有人

They clench the fist of ordained might 他们紧握受戒威力的拳头

From which side of the barbed wire 从中铁丝网边

Do you want to see your life pass by? 难道你想看到你的今生的擦肩而过？

   

When reason dies behind closed doors 当死亡的原因闭门造车

Face down in a cell in a pool of piss 面向下一个单元格中小便池

It's time to fear what we should respect 现在是时候应该担心的问题，我们应该尊重

It's time to question 现在是时候质疑

Cause and effect 因果

Who teaches the teachers? 谁教的老师？

Who makes laws for lawmakers? 谁使得立法者的法律？

When they read us our rights 当他们给我们读我们的权利

What about human rights? 什么人权？