Hold you hand to the fire 握住你的手火

And your eyes to the sky 你的眼睛向天空

They're just different shades of cellophane 他们玻璃纸只是深浅不同

Taped against the lights. 录播对灯。

Faulty seams, drawn on plastic leaves 错误的接缝，画在塑料叶子

Past and future replicas 过去和未来的副本

Past and future streams 过去和未来的流

Hold your head underwater 抬起你的头在水下

And try to see if you can breathe 并尝试看看你能不能呼吸

Or if you drown in the shallow 或者，如果你在浅水淹死

depths of your belief 深处的信念

Because somewhere there must be a better place 由于地方必须有一个更好的地方

Here you call to your neighbor 在这里，你打电话给你的邻居

Only to see the track is set and they're 只看到赛道设置，他们是

Walking back and forth in a circle 来回走动了一圈

Saying the same words 他说同样的话

Making their lips sync 使他们的嘴唇同步

In time with psalms on Sunday mornings 在时间上周日早上诗篇

And all their hearts align with pale fire 和所有他们的心配合微暗的火

So call the appear ambulance 于是叫救护车出现

To trace the paper cuts 追查剪纸

Don't call on me, I'm a plastic reed 不要叫上我，我是一个塑料簧片

Bending in the feigning wind 弯曲的假装风

Of artificial fields 人工场

Then you read the paper 然后你看报纸

Of a woman's early death 一个女人的早期死亡

And note explaining why she left 并说明，解释她为什么离开

It says: 它说：

"Somewhere there must be a better place “某处必须有一个更好的地方

And it's marked with the fountain I've seen 而且它打上我见过的喷泉

glowing in my sleep." 彤彤在我睡觉。 “

And so you want to die and leave this shadow land behind 所以，你想死，留下这个阴影的土地

To eviscerate the truth from the lie 从谎言剔骨真相

Because somewhere there must be a better place 由于地方必须有一个更好的地方

but 但

What we thought was a fountain of life and light 我们认为是生命和光的喷泉

turns out to be a 原来是

Mountain crushing down upon us, casting it's shadow 山破碎看不起我们，铸造它的影子

Closing the distance 关闭的距离

between us and Babylon 我们和巴比伦之间

And all our songs 和我们所有的歌曲

are just the sounds of past and future days 是过去和未来几天刚刚的声音

Past of future names 未来的名字过去

Collapsing around us 我们身边崩