Got up before dawn 天亮前起床

Went down to the racetrack 下楼到赛场

Riding with the windows down 跟windows下骑

Shortly after your first heart attack 你的第一个心脏发作后不久

   

You parked behind the paddock 你停在围场背后

Cracking asphalt underfoot 脚下的沥青开裂

Coming up through the cracks 即将到来的裂缝

Pale green things, pale green things 浅绿色的东西，浅绿色的东西

   

We watched the horses run their workouts 我们看着马跑他们的训练

You held your stopwatch in your left hand 你在你的左手牵着你的秒表

And a racing form beneath your arm 和你的手臂下方的赛车表

Casting your gaze way out to no man's land 铸造你的目光出路无人区

   

Sometimes I'll meet you out there 有时我会见到你在那里

Lonely and frightened 孤独和恐惧

Flicking my tongue out at the wet leaves 轻弹我的舌头在湿润的叶子

Pale green things, pale green things 浅绿色的东西，浅绿色的东西

   

My sister called at 3 AM 我的妹妹叫凌晨3点

Just last December 就在上月

She told me how you'd died at last, at last 她告诉我，你怎么会在去年去世，享年最后

And that morning at the racetrack was one thing I remembered 而当天上午在赛马场一件事我记得

   

I turned it over in my mind 我在心里翻来覆去

Like a living Chinese finger trap 就像一个活生生的中国手指陷阱

Seaweed and Indiana saw grass 海带和印第安纳州锯齿草

Pale green things, pale green things 浅绿色的东西，浅绿色的东西