i'll sing you a song that starts out descriptive 我会唱你开始时描述的一首歌

and locates a time and a place 并找到时间和地点

like a dinner table where a whole family 就像一个餐桌，其中全家

is just sitting down to say grace 刚坐下来恩说

an old old song that moves into action 一个旧旧的歌曲移动到行动

taking its sweet sweet time 同时它的甜甜蜜时光

and waits until we all say amen 并等待，直到大家都这么说阿门

again and again in rhyme 一次又一次韵

   

it's the story of a father and a mother 这是一个父亲和一个母亲的故事

who battle each other over nothin' 谁刀光剑影了没什么

with a couple of kids trying to figure 有一对夫妇的孩子们努力的身影

which way the plot's spinning 哪种方式的情节的旋转

who's winning and who is bluffing 谁赢，谁是唬人

   

it's a story as common as a penny, son 这是一个故事，多如过一分钱，儿子

it ain't really worth anything to anyone 它是不是真的值得任何人

   

poor little sore little song 有点疼的小可怜歌

that aches like a muscle each time that it moves 这就像酸痛肌肉每次它运行时的

sad little song that you play 悲伤的小曲儿，你玩

and you play and you play 和你玩，你玩

and you play 'til you lose 和你玩，直到你输

while history is outside writing a recipe book 而历史是外面写食谱

for every earthly pain 每一个尘世的痛苦

this song is inside finger painting dark swirls 这首歌里面手指画黑暗漩涡

again and again and they all look the same 一次又一次，他们看起来都一样

   

cuz what if you come home from school one day 的Cuz如果你一天放学都回家了

and you find your whole family's at war 你会发现你的整个家庭的战争

and there's this ominous silence just waiting to be broken 而且有这种不祥的沉默只是在等待被打破

and there's secret places for hiding underneath the floorboards 这里面的秘密的地方隐藏的地板下方

and everyone seems to be bracing 每个人都似乎是支撑

for the subharmonic thunder of the next bomb 下一个炸弹的次谐波风头

and everyone seems to be waiting for the cops to bust in 似乎每个人都在等待警察来的胸围

with their guns drawn 他们拔出枪

at the bleak light of dawn 在光线暗淡的黎明

   

it's a story as common as a penny, son 这是一个故事，多如过一分钱，儿子

i don't think it's worth anything to anyone 我不认为这是值得任何人