City life is closing in on me 城市生活对我关在

The way things go, thirty years, 事情的本来面目，三十年来，

Bus timetable'll be my elergy 公交timetablell是我elergy

   

Up at seven every working day 截至七每个工作日

Pay comes in, pay goes out 薪酬进来，工资熄灭

It's a week-by-week charade 这是一个为期一周的逐周夏利

   

General panic in the marketplace 在市场上一般的恐慌

Boss found hung in office 老板发现挂在办公室

Could not stand the pace 看不下去的步伐

   

And as the peak-hour traffic jams below 正如下面的高峰时段交通拥堵

Someone gets the story, somebody spread the rumour 有人得到的故事，有人散布谣言

People come and go 人们来来去去

   

Wandered down along the river last night 上下徘徊沿江昨晚

Call me romantic, I say I couldn't sleep 打电话给我的浪漫，我说我睡不着

Until the first-light struck me down 直到第一个轻打我失望

   

Padding homeward on the inside lane 在内侧车道填充归途

Early morning, freeway's cool and quiet 清晨，高速公路的凉又静

Dodging rubber stains 躲着橡胶污渍

   

People talking in a seaside bar 人们在海边的酒吧聊天

I ain't sentimental, but Lord 我是不是感伤，而是主

Sometimes I get that gypsy urge to travel far 有时候，我得到的吉普赛敦促出远门

   

You know I'll disappear some long weekend 你知道我会消失一些长周末

Find a mangrove landscape 查找红树林景观

Stretch out along some busted jetty 伸出以及一些捣毁码头

And forget who I am 忘记我是谁

   

You go to move 你去移动

You got to go 你得去

You go to be somebody 你去出人头地

You got to roll 你得滚

You got to stop 你必须停止

You got to change 你必须改变

You got to make a little money 你得赚小钱

And be a little strange 并有点怪

   

And one long day 一整天

Is all it takes to steal her heart away 是所有需要偷她的心脏远

One long night 一个漫长的夜晚

And it's allright, you've done it again 和它的好吧，你已经做了一遍

Soft, low words 软，低的话

And slender ladies, beneath the cafe fans 而修长的女士们，下面的咖啡厅粉丝

One long day 一整天

Layed by dreams 因为梦想奠定

Cotton dresses, a Spanish border town 棉连衣裙，西班牙的边境小镇

Dreams so far 梦至今

From the subway, the crowds heading home 从地铁，拥挤的人群回家

Close each day 关闭每一天

In technicolor, a million miles away 在Technicolor的，一百万英里远

One long night and you're alone 一个漫长的夜晚和你孤单

   

Meanwhile 同时

City ways 市方式

Life goes creeping on 生活在继续匍匐在

Sometimes 有时

I get the blues 我得到的蓝调