We lived up here in Cambridge 我们住在这里剑桥

And browsed in the hippest newsstands 而在浏览最时尚报摊

The we started our own newspaper 在我们开始我们自己的报纸

Gave the truth about Uncle Sam 对了山姆大叔的真相

We loved to be so radical 我们爱过的人要如此激进

But like a ragged love affair 但是，像一个衣衫褴褛的恋情

Some became disenchanted 有些却意识到

And some of us just got scared 而我们有些人只是有点害怕

   

Now are you playing possum 现在，你在玩装死

Keeping a low profile 韬光养晦

Are you playing possum for a while 你在玩装死了一会儿

   

then you moved to the country 那么你移居国

Bought a farm and tilled the land 买了一个农场，耕种土地

Then you took your books to India 然后你把你的书到印度

And got hooked on a holy man 并迷上了一位圣人

But the wells they do run dry 但井他们枯竭

And the speeches turn to words 并把演讲词

And the woods are full of tigers 和树林里全是老虎

And freedom's for the birds 和自由的为鸟

   

Now you run a bookstore 现在你跑书店

And you've taken on a wife 而且你已经采取了对妻子

You wear patches on your elbows 你穿的补丁在你的胳膊肘

And you live an easy life 和你住一个简单的生活

But are you finally satisfied 但你终于满意

Is it what you were lookin' for 难道你是在看着

Or does it sneak up on you 抑或是悄悄地走近你

that there might be something more 可能有更多的东西